Slow Cooker Chicken Dinner

If you are going to be outside shovelling snow today you will work up an appetite.
You might want to get this started first.

2  1/2 lb whole chicken
2 tbsps olive oil
2 stalks celery
3 carrots
4-5 potatoes, quartered
3 minced garlic cloves
rosemary
celery leaves, chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Cut celery and carrots in thirds and layer on the bottom of a slow cooker that has been sprayed with cooking oil. You can add a couple more but this allowed the heat to get underneath the chicken. It kind of reminds me of when you build a campfire and you stack the wood so that air can circulate between.

Salt and pepper the inside of the chicken and lightly brown it in a skillet with olive oil. Then sit it on top of the celery and carrots. Place the quartered potatoes around it and sprinkle with salt, pepper, minced garlic and chopped celery leaves.

Slow cook on high 3-4 hours. Check veggies. If they're a not quite fork tender, give them a little more time.

Finished shovelling? Now aren't you glad you made supper already?