Slow Cooker Peach Butter

What do you do with a whole case of peaches that are getting smooshy and soft? Make peach butter! I have always been intimidated by the phrase "butter". Apple Butter, Peach butter, Pumpkin butter. Which is kind of silly since real butter is really easy to make! Especially if, like me, you leave the heavy whipping cream to long in the mixer. There is a fine line between thick cream and butter and I seem to cross it.... A LOT! Probably because I try to do to many things at one time. But in the past I have always thought fruit butters are hard to make. I mean the Amish make them and sell them so in my mind that means it must be difficult. But today I am glad to prove my thought wrong!

The other day Keith came home with a crate full of peaches. Sadly we didn't realize that if you have them in a fridge and then take them out and leave them they get soft. What a waste, I thought.  But I decided to slice and freeze them for smoothies which my boys love, so I did. While scanning some recipes on Pintrest, where now days everything is getting you in the mood for Fall, I saw a few for Slow Cooker Apple butter. I am a sucker for Slow Cooker recipes so I read it. Then I read all the comments. People raved about how easy it was and how delicious it came out. One comment caught my eye. It asked "Can you use this recipe with Peaches?" There was no reply but it got me curious. I started to research peach butter recipes for the crock pot and HAPPY was I to see that there were several..... Hundred. But I went with the one with 5 stars. How can you go wrong with that? Thankfully this recipe was worth ever star it got. It was easy and DELICIOUS! I am now interested in making my own and trying all the butters! Pumpkin, Apple and whatever other kinds I can find! Seriously this was so delicious! So easy! I am not intimidated any more! So I am now going to share this amazing recipe so you can save money and make your own peach butter! When I try the other fruit butter recipes I will post those too.

Peach Butter
5 lbs Peaches (fresh, frozen or it said you could use canned)
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup honey
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp all spice (this was NOT in the original recipe but I like this flavor)

Peel the peaches( I didn't because my peaches were frozen and it still turn out nice) Core and chop them. Put them in a food processor or blender. Puree till smooth. Add to crock pot and add all ingredients. Mix well. Cook on low 6 hours or till it is thick and brown. I stirred it a few times during the time. I also cooked it about 2 hours more because it was kind of runny. Probably due to them being frozen. Let cool and place in the jars. If you want to seal them, process in a water bath for 15 minutes. With this recipe I got a little more then 2 pint jars. I sealed to and left the rest in my fridge for Breakfast.

I hope you enjoy this recipe. It was delicious!

Poppy-seed Chicken

You ever have those days where you are so busy doing something you don't realize dinner time has approached and you haven't done anything that was planned, so then you deviate from that plan and throw something together and it turns out to be a EPIC FAIL?  Husband doesn't really like it, Kids gag and whine about eating it, and you honestly didn't like it either, so then you just skip right to the ice cream? Ever have those days? yeah well today was one of those and we did just jump to the ice cream.

Well instead of giving a recipe that ended in disaster, I will give you one that I made a few nights ago that was a BIG hit! My husband actually asked why I have never made this before? And honestly I don't really know why I haven't but it will now go into the list of "favorites" and what I like about it is it is super easy and uses very few ingredients!

Poppy-Seed Chicken
4-5 chicken breast
1 cup plain yogurt (or sour cream)
1 can Cream of Chicken soup
1 roll(about 2 cups) of Ritz Crackers or Saltine crumbled
1 TBSP Poppy Seeds
1 stick margarine( I used 1/2 a stick)

Place chicken in a casserole dish or pan. Mix Soup and yogurt together, pour over chicken. Crush crackers and mix in seeds and then spread over soup mixture. Melt butter and pour over top the crackers. Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes till chicken is done.  This is good served with rice to soak up all the yummy sauce.