well...

the chicken turned out GREAT! lee went back for seconds... and i'm predicting thirds before the rest officially becomes "leftovers"...i ended up having to serve it out of the crock pot because it was coming alllll to pieces! and even the white meat was exceptionally moist--lee's told me several times how great it was and he can't wait to have it again

...in fact, he even said "i'd love to have that again if its not difficult to make" ...how sweet is he?! of course i told him how easy it was ... but the real star of the show?

THOSE VEGGIES!

...this was my first time cooking with eggplant... and overall, we liked it... the only bad thing about it was the fact that it tended to absorb more of the EVOO and it got a little mushy... but good flavor... i cut all the veggies really big because there's few that lee won't eat (mushrooms, peppers, onions) ...hmm... that's funny i didn't think he liked them... but he cleaned his plate (& ate the few pieces of eggplant that i didn't)

...now, we do roasted veggies a lot, but for some reason, they were the star of the show tonite... i guess i had the right mixture of seasoning, salt, pepper, and EVOO! :-D

i had the fruit out for us to eat, too... but we were too busy chowin' down on chicken and veggies! yum!