Crocking on the weekend. "Cue gasp!"

I hadn't planned on doing any crock potting this weekend. Really. But when I was charting out the meals, I totally forgot that we had dinner plans on Monday night and I wouldn't be crocking. Oops. I would've postponed this meal to another week, but I'd already done the prep work by cooking the chicken and noodles, so I HAD to make  sooner rather than later. That whole not crocking on the weekend thing? Totally not happening. I'm even crocking tomorrow. "Cue gasp!"

Four-Cheese Chicken and Noodles (6 quart pot)

~4 cooked chicken breasts, chopped into bite sized pieces
~1 1/2 cups cottage cheese
~1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
~1 package (8oz) wide egg noodles (I used 'no yolks'), cooked and drained
~1/2 cup diced carrots
~1/2 cup diced asparagus
~1 cup  shredded colby/monterrey jack cheese mix
~1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
~1/2 cup diced celery
~1/2 cup diced onion
~1/2 cup vegetable broth
~1 can (4 oz) sliced mushrooms, drained
~2 T butter, melted
~1/2 t dried thyme

Combine all ingredients in crock pot. Stir to coat evenly.
Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. (The recipe says you can cook it anywhere from 6-10 hours on low.)

6 servings.

Around lunchtime, my other half said that he had craving for chocolate. I was GOING to make the gooey cherry chocolate cake again, but we are all out of chocolate cake mix. The chocolatey things we had was a box of brownie mix and a container of baking cocoa. I quickly paged through the cookbook and found a chocolate cake recipe that called for brownie mix AND baking cocoa. Win!

Chocolate Custard Cake (3.5 quart pot)

Batter:

~2 cups brownie mix (I used Duncan Hines dark chocolate)
~1 large egg
~1T vegetable oil
~1/4 cup water

Sauce:

~1 cup hot water
~1/2 cup brown sugar
~3 T baking cocoa

Mix batter ingredients by hand. Pour batter into greased crock pot.
Mix sauce ingredients in separate bowl. Pour evenly over batter. Do not stir.
Cover and cook on high for 2 hours. Allow cake to cook for 30 minutes before serving.

6 servings.

Remember when I said I was great at following directions? Yeah, well...not today. About 3/4 of the way through the cake's cooking time, I realized that I had it on low instead of high. I then tried to make up the lost time by cooking the still gooey mess on high for about an hour. It kind of worked. It's chocolately. And custardy. And cakey, but I'm curious to see what it's supposed to be like, so you'll see a version 2.0 here, someday. Possibly soon because I still have half of a box of brownie mix to use. Win again!