This one looks yummy!

It does look yummy!

I have your fish chowder recipe in the crock pot at home today. I'm so excited! :)

Yum-O. I will definitely have to try this! I love my crock pot too!

Thanks for joining the give away. Don't forget to post about it here in order to qualify! Good luck!

another winnner!! thanks for all the chopping you do for us. we really, really appreciate it!

have you thought about putting all of these together in a cookbook? (at the end of the year of course!)

i would buy it!

hello!
I thank you for all of the time to sterilize your hands after cutting the chicken. When I was first married i wore rubber gloves when handling poultry! It cut down on the sterilization time And wear and tear on my hands! I am braver now, but my hands have the battle scars! hahaha
My crock pot is STILL missing in action!

With Kindness,
Mary

thanks tara!

oh! let me know what you think, damsel!

will-do, doodlebug.

thank you, kay.

Can you recommend a crockpot?
(see previous post for why.

With Kindness,
Mary

Hi Merci-Notes,

I have only used Rival brand crockpots. The one I am currently using is a 6qt "smart pot"--I love it. It has settings for 4, 6, 8 and 10 hours and then will automatically switch to warm when the alotted time is finished. It cost about $40 at Target. Sandra, from Diary of a SAHM just received this crockpot from Rival (totally jealous) and is loving it.

Some of the different brands have a locking device to keep the lid on, which I would really like to have--I sloshed all over the place bringing a full pot to my mom's last night. But I haven't seen a Rival with that option yet. And after trying the Presto, I'm scared to venture away from a Rival.

I am enjoying your blog and marvel and how you really are pulling off all those crock pot recipes! I am trying these lettuce wraps as they are my daughter's fav. at PF Changs. I have the same ironing board/spice cabinet...it is great. Mine is alphabetized...until once when my husband didn't think my jars fit totally tidy and "reorganized" it for me...he learned quite a lesson!

Thank You Stephanie!
My original was a Rival and now I know I will be getting a Rival! Thank You So Very Much!
Hmm. I think that Pea Pod should make a regular trip to you door, or how about
Whole foods? You deserve a "treat" also! :)
With Kindness,
Mary

This looks yummy :-) As always!!

One of my fave foods of all time. I'm gonna try this this weekend!

I have already tried at least 4 of your recipes...yummy! My question is on how you would add the water chestnuts and scallions. Before or add them at the end for the crunch. I plan on making these this week and can.not.wait.

Hi Renee, I'm glad that you are enjoying yourself and that I can be of some help to your family. Cooked water chestnuts still retain their crunch, so go ahead and add them at cooking time. I'm not sure about the green onion---maybe closer to the end of cooking time?

--steph

Hey all! I used to work for PF Chang's (shhh, don't tell, cause I'm probably not supposed to let you in on their "secret" recipe). What they do for their lettuce wraps is use ground chicken, then they grind water chestnuts with shiitake mushrooms until it's a pretty coarse mixture...at home, I would stick it in the food processor or blender for a couple seconds cause I'm too lazy to do all that chopping! The green onions are added in the final tosses of the wok, so in the crock, I'd stir them in at the very end. I'm happy to say I've been lettuce wrap-free for a year now (after eating them practically daily for years, this is a good thing!), but I do crave them so will be trying this out for sure! Thanks, Steph!

I made this the other day (before I saw the post from the ex-PFC employee). I used the fine dice blade on my dicer to fine dice the onions and garlic, as well as some water chestnuts, mushrooms and zuchini (just to add more veggies). I bought the green onions to add at the end, but forgot them! I ate it as a lettuce wrap, and the guys ate it salad-style. Another instant hit!

I just made these tonight with ground turkey. I don't think the ground turkey worked. I did add pine nuts and water chestnuts. The flavor was awesome but the turkey kind of dried out and was too crumbly (and we are big ground turkey eaters). I just read all the reviews and next time I will try the tricks from the ex PF chang employee. And I will use ground chicken

Hi again! I made these the other night. I used ground turkey (frozen solid as a rock!). I coarsely ground my shiitakis and water chestnuts in my food processor and added them at the beginning. I minced the garlic and some shallot in the processor, too. Easy peasy. We were going to eat dinner while watching a movie, so I decided to make this into more of a salad than a wrap, even though I had iceburg lettuce specifically for it to be like at Chang's (normally I only buy romaine or leaf lettuce...). I chopped my lettuce and added chopped cilantro. I used a dressing similar to the ingredients of Chang's "special" sauce: soy, vinegar, chili oil, chili paste, hot mustard. I added the green onions during the last 10 minutes in the crock and also added some raw to the salad. Three out of four of us loved this. My 7-year-old son decided he liked the meat part, but didn't like the lettuce. Funny, cause iceburg was the only "salad" lettuce he would eat between the ages of 2-5 (most of my stint as a PF Chang's employee). Anyway, he enjoyed his pb&j :) (again). The rest of us, including my 7-year-old daughter (yes, they're twins as in they were conceived, gestated and born at the same time...that's where the similarities end) loved this. What an easy, carefree way to make lettuce wraps. Thanks for another great recipe, Steph!!

Thank you for the website, I recently dropped a knife block on top of my smooth top stove and shattered it, been trying to grill in below zero weather too cold, so have pulled out the old crock pot, I see I will be inspired until my new stove comes in. To think I was grieving my stove until now.

Finally, I got around to making these! They were a hit. I added about 8 chopped up water chestnuts but will add more next time. I didn't add mushrooms because I just don't like them. We added a little extra soy sauce and some rice vinegar when we were making the wraps. I put some spring onions in but cooked them too long in there at the end.

They were very similar to PF CHang. We'll do this again!

Thanks, Steph!
Kelley

Just tried making these for the first time--I had frozen chicken breasts and just put them in whole (and frozen) with the sauce for 4 hours on low, took them out and put them in the food processor. It ground them up perfectly! Then put it back in the sauce on low for another 4 hours. Perfect! I added a bit of red pepper flakes for some heat. Thanks for a yummy recipe!

This recipe saved me yesterday. I was supposed to have a new stove installed by BestBuy. Stove delivered and installed ... WITHOUT BURNERS. (yes, you read that correctly)

Anyway, whipped up this dish in the CrockPot (and used some of the excellent input from your readers!). Husband and I loved it -- dinner was saved :-)

I know this is an older post, but I just had to add my YUM! to the comments already here. This was really good, and we'll be having them again.

The only complaint I have is that I got a blister on my index finger from chopping up all that chicken!! rofl Maybe this will be a good excuse to get a new knife. ;-)

Incidentally, I used dried mushrooms that I chopped up in the food processor, and I didn't add the water chestnuts until everything was almost done. Oh, and I forgot the green onions. I missed them. I won't forget next time!

Finally, skip the Trader Joe Tokyo Style Soba Noodles ... ew ew ew ... just say no.

My family does something similar to this, but we make it a build-your-own affair and eat them as either lettuce wraps or spring rolls. We also add tasty things like bean sprouts and peanut sauce to it. So good!

I made these tonight! YUMMY!!! I got a slow cooker for my birthday and found your site looking for recipes. This was the first one I tried. I have bookmarked like 20 other ones to try. Thank you for making it so easy

I made these for game day today. I used ground turkey and added the water chestnuts right at the start. I left for work, came home 6 hours later and the turkey was pretty much still in its loaf form. I stirred it to break it up, which happened easily. These are not pretty and they are very messy but so worth it. Delish!

Have you found plum jam lately?? I can't find it but do love them without but would really like to try with the plum sauce and I have to make it b/c we are GF!Thanks

I bought whole chicken breast and did NOT want to cut it all up. I used my pampered ch*f salad chopper after cutting the whole breasts down a bit. Worked wonderfully. I also added 1 whole small can chopped water chestnuts. They were yummy! I think I'll try adding some mushrooms finely chopped during cooking and sprinkling some green onions on meat just before eating next time.

I am definately going to have to make these! those look great! and all the other recipes i have found for the lettuce wraps have asked for some pretty wild ingrediants!

So I made this tonight...Instead of lettuce wraps, I cooked the chicken then shredded it. I threw it in some rice noodles and asparagus and make some extra sauce for it. My 5 year old and 2 year old ate it all up! They loved it. I have no idea how close it tastes to PF Changs, we have egg and peanut allergy so Chinese food is out for us, but it was pretty tasty.

If you don't have issues w/sesame, this is also really good to have sesame seeds sprinkled on top for some added asian flavour and little crunchy bits!