I'm trying to use my slow-cooker more often these days since I like not having a lot of extra things to clean up at the end of the day. Slow-cooking allows me to prep things in the morning or even while my kid's napping — easier on my sanity to clean up then than at the end of the day when I have other things I need to do.
Tonight's dinner was a lime chicken and rice dish I found on
allrecipes.com. I heeded the some of the user comments and made a few alterations by adding extra garlic and cilantro; and since I only have regular, non-instant rice on hand, I added a cup and a half of uncooked rice to the pot with about an hour left of cooking.
I was worried about the salt — on one hand, I love salt, but was afraid it might dry the chicken breast even more. (The chicken did seem a bit dry at the end, even without added salt while cooking.) I ended up adding several generous dashes of kosher salt at the end, just before serving, as well as extra chopped cilantro. My husband said it needed something else, so I gave his (second) serving a few pinches of red pepper flakes. I'll probably try this again another time, but perhaps with even more garlic and/or red pepper flakes.
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