Two recipes we like are these that Hope and Jenny gave me when I got our crockpot a year or so ago.

CROCKPOT CHICKEN CACCIATORE (from Hope)

1 lg. onion thinly sliced
3lbs. cut up chicken (Hope uses four chicken breasts, I use two or three with extra mushrooms and some julienne carrots)
2(6oz.) cans tomato paste
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1 tsp. salt
1 to 2 cloves garlic, minced
1 to 2 tsp. oregano, or 1 of oregano and 1 of Italian spice blend
1 bay leaf
1/2 c. water

Place onions in bottom of crockpot. Add chicken pieces. Stir together remaining ingredients. Pour over chicken. Cook on low 7 to 9 hours: high 3 to 4 hours. Serve over spaghetti.

You can add green pepper or julienne carrots. Hope also suggested a little wine, or using canned chicken broth instead of water, or putting fresh or canned tomatoes in.

Hope says parmesan cheese is nice in it too, towards the end of the cooking time.

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CHICKEN A LA KING (from Jenny)

Cubed chicken breasts
2 cans, or one family sized one, cream of chicken soup
1/4 cup of flour
1/4 cup chopped green onions
dash of chayenne pepper
salt and pepper

Mix it all up in the crockpot and cook for 8 hours. Serve over or with rice

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I have cooked a whole chicken in mine too - potatoes and carrots on the bottom, the chicken on the top and pour two or three cups of water/stock over. I usually give it about an hour on high, then turn it down to low of medium for a few hours, until it's done. The skin won't crisp up but I don't eat that anyway, so I don't mind.

What's the Great Chicken Experiment?? :