Spanish Rice & Chicken Tacos – {Crock pot Recipe}

I have to say that I LOVE my crock pot.  Love.  Trying to balance the whole work-a-full-time-job-while-shuttling-kids-to-school-and-activities-and-raising-gentlemen thing is… interesting… even more so when you go from “part time parent” with a shared schedule and numerous days off to full time parent to a teenager who eats everything in site in the blink of an eye.  I’m not complaining AT ALL – I love having my giant with me… I hate the circumstances that made it so.  

Enter my crock pot.  Throw all the ingredients in in the morning, REMEMBER TO TURN IT ON, and then you have dinner waiting on you when you get home.  Provided of course you plugged it in.  Not that I’ve forgotten that step a time or two or anything.

What I love even more is when you discover happy accidents…. 
Chicken Tacos & Spanish Rice

The other day, I started with a family favorite – Crockpot Chicken Tacos.  It’s so easy I hesitate to even CALL it a recipe… but it’s quick and easy and delicious and I get no complaints in the house because seriously, who doesn’t like tacos?

When it’s just my folks and I eating, I’d stop there.  Chicken tacos and a salad but when you have a giant in the house, carbs are no longer a luxury… they are a necessity to keep him fueled.

So, when I got home from work and checked on the chicken in the crock, I saw all this beautiful, flavorful liquid just daring me to do something with it… and that’s when brillance struck.  Use the liquid for a perfect side dish!  Spanish Rice.  

 

[yumprint-recipe id=’2′]Seriously delicious and family friendly. Added plus? Everyone can make their own tacos with whatever toppings they like.

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  1. Wow! That’s crazy 🙂 I’ll have to try the rice thing! AND I agree remembering to actually press ON is one of the hardest parts, ha!

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