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Valentine’s Day tradition at the Kroeker house is to have a family feast.We make a big meal, set the dining room table with a red or pink tablecloth and good china, light candles, turn on some fun music, and pass around homemade Valentine’s cards.After the meal, we take turns sharing at least one thing we enjoy, love or admire about each person in the family.Our hope is to create a tradition that the kids look back on with fondness and look forward to with joy, knowing that they are loved and accepted no matter what…that there will always be a Valentine in their mailbox.The main dish for our feast is a crock pot recipe for chicken. The original recipe is HERE, but we modified it and took the liberty of coining a much more satisfying name:Hoosier Comfort Chicken (crock pot recipe)
- 8 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (we slice them again into smaller pieces)
- 8 strips bacon (one slice for each piece of chicken, so you’ll need more if you cut the breasts into smaller pieces)
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup (or I’ve substituted a from-scratch version made with flour and oil, adding chicken broth and some cream)
- 1 jar dried beef (the original calls for it, but we leave it out, sometimes substituting additional bits of bacon instead)
Preparation:Wrap a strip of bacon around each piece of chicken breast. Line bottom of crock pot with cut up chipped beef (you can substitute bits of bacon if you don’t use the beef…or skip altogether). Place the chicken breast halves or pieces on the chipped beef. Combine sour cream and soup; pour over the chicken. Bake in crock pot on low 6-8 hours or until chicken is cooked. (You can bake this in a baking dish in the oven; the cooking time is about 2 hours at 300º and bacon may get more crispy.) Serve on cooked egg noodles.Happy Valentine’s Day!
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What a lovely tradition! Your recipe that sounds really delicious too. Thanks for hosting Food on Fridays.
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What a lovely idea. Our Valentine’s tradition is to make a brunch for the children. Then I usually make one of my husband’s favorites for dinner.
That’s a nice way to honor both your marriage and your kids. Our anniversary is a couple of days later, so we just postpone our romantic dinner until then.
I’ve always made this with just the chipped beef – never heard or thought to try bacon in it. Yum – will have to throw some in next time. Bacon makes everything better!
We’re having a chicken and spicy red pepper pasta dish this year. I try to serve something red in our Valentine’s food. Even if its just red-fruit-juice-made-ice cubes in our glasses of ginger ale.
Happy Valentine’s, Ann!
“Bacon makes everything better!” Love that line. I have leaned toward being a vegetarian on and off throughout my life, but it’s bacon that keeps wooing me back. Why did God make piggies taste so good?
We do try to include something red. I forgot to add that to my post. One item is red Jell-O. I like your red-fruit-juice-ice-cube idea!
What a wonderful Valentine’s Day tradition! I’ve been on the lookout for ways to make my daughter’s holidays memorable for when she’s a bit older (she’s only 9 months old right now). I’m definitely going to keep this idea in mind.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today and leaving such a nice comment!
I’m so glad you dropped by to say hello! I hope you enjoy many memories all year round with your daughter!
What a feast Ann… I’m having trouble curbing my appetite after your mouth-watering description. Sour cream in soup…oh my!
I try not to think about how high in calories this dish must be! If you make it sometime, you’ll see that it turns out like a chicken dish in a sauce…not quite a soup. The condensed soup helps create the sauce with the sour cream and what bit of broth cooks out of the chicken breasts.
Now I must excuse myself to pick up the red Jell-O and red punch to add that Valentine’s Day color to the menu…oh, and I’ve got to grab the sour cream. Can you imagine? Oh, my….I’d better schedule a five-mile run this week!!
It is hilarious because I have an identical post on my own blog, with the same exact topic “Food on Fridays: Valentine's Day Feast | Ann Kroeker. Writer.”. I was wondering if you’d like to make a guest post on my site?