Tasty Tuesday ~ Chicken & Rice Soup

I am a bit off of my blog-groove this week - I think I'm missing a caffeine link or something? not sure. Anyways, I am posting a Tasty Tuesday recipe that I have not yet tasted *gasp* - although it is currently brewing in my crockpot at home for tonight's supper!

I stole this recipe from one of my FAVE blogs - The Crockpot Lady - and I whipped it all up last night while I was waiting for hubby to get home from a long day of work. I put all the ingredients in the crockpot ceramic thingie last night and then set that part in the fridge. I pulled it out this morning and slipped it back into the crockpot base and plugged it in - hopefully that won't cause it to turn into mush, lol:). Anyways, here it is:

Chicken & Rice Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 boxes of chicken broth (I used the stuff I found at Wal-Mart, I'm cheap:))
• 1 cup of uncooked brown rice (and I didn't wash or soak it, neither did crockpot lady)
• 1 cup of water
• 1 cup cooked, shredded chicken (I had leftover store-bought rotisserie chicken from last week, although I think I ended up with 1 1/2 cups or maybe 2...oops;)!)
• 1 1/2 - 2 cups of vegetables (I used leftover baby carrots, celery, and onion)
• 1 t herbes de provence (they definitely don't carry this in my itty-bitty ND town - so I used some thyme, some rosemary, and some marjoram. could be scary)
• Salt & Pepper to taste after cooking

Directions:

• Using a chopper thingie (I used a food processor), chop the veggies into whatever size pieces your family likes - I think crockpot lady blended hers into a paste and they looked pretty invisible!
• Dump all ingredients into the crockpot and cook on low as long as you can - the longer the better.

I read some of the comments about the recipe on her page, and some people ended up with 'exploding rice' - crockpot lady used basmati brown rice from trader joe's, and since there isn't a trader joe's within 200 miles of here, I just used regular brown rice, but if it explodes, I won't cry:).

Yay for soup on 29 degree fall mornings!