Crockpot Sticky Chicken

This picture doesn't do it justice. Just puttin' that out there. This is a fall off the bone kind of chicken that has a kick! Although I enjoy finding crock-pot/slow cooker recipes that are 8 hours for those weekday meals while I'm at work...this is a guilty pleasure for the weekend. Throw it in late morning, enjoy it in the evening. Yummy.

The recipe is based off of the seasonings from Roast Sticky Chicken-Rotisserie Style, thanks to Sue Rogers at Allrecipes.com. However, I don't exactly remember who or where I found the idea of using the slow cooker - it may have been in the reviews of that same recipe. I prefer to make this recipe in the crock-pot, because it just seems safer than having to baby sit the oven - and I've always had a better turnout with the crock-pot version.

Whenever you're dealing with raw chicken, I encourage you to have enough paper towel handy for all the hand washing you should be doing. With this recipe it's best to rinse the chicken and remove the giblets/innards from the inside of the chicken. If the chicken comes with a thermometer or the things that pop when it's done - I always remove them. Never left them in when making this recipe, don't know what happens if you do.

So Justin decided to make pretzels when Joshy and I were celebrating my nephew's 7th birthday(where has the time gone?!?) on Saturday night....which meant my clean kitchen now looked like this(after I moved all the dirty dishes out of the sink):

Yep, this is what the one corner of my kitchen looks like. I rarely ever have a dish free sink, unfortunately. What can I say - it's my life now with a toddler. I have higher priorities than always making sure every single dish is clean. Eek, did I just admit that here? Oh well, I'm human and besides I hate doing dishes.

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