Tonight for dinner I wanted to try something new. And I am also still dragging from the heat induced force-myself-to-eat thing that happens from July to September. Many a day passes and I realize that the yogurt I had for breakfast is the only thing that I have eaten.
Back to the real story at hand...
I hit pintrest, hoping that one of the hundreds of recipes that I had pinned would catch my eye and I would actually have the desire to (a) cook and further heat my house and (b) eat.
I found this recipe for a Mexican casserole: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/mexican-chicken-casserole-10000000223124/
Back to the real story at hand...
I hit pintrest, hoping that one of the hundreds of recipes that I had pinned would catch my eye and I would actually have the desire to (a) cook and further heat my house and (b) eat.
I found this recipe for a Mexican casserole: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/mexican-chicken-casserole-10000000223124/
The picture looks awesome...but I read through the ingedients and it sounded more blah than it looked. There were a few things in the recipe that I liked the idea of and as I sat and looked at the picture that I wanted to eat in deep culinary thought, I realized what it was that made me what to eat it. So I left my computer screen and started to kitchen-sink what I wanted for dinner. (BTW, yes I meant to use kitchen-sink as a verb. Have you ever heard of kitchen sink cooking? Its where people throw all kinds of stuff into a recipe that isn't called for. It's supposed to be slang for "they threw everything in but the kitchen sink..." Now do you get my joke?! Good. Moving on.)
My first thought was to start cooking some quinoa, but when I glanced at the time and saw that the spouse was going to be landing at the Payne house, hungry and wanting instant food in 20 minutes, I decided on the left over rice that was in the fridge instead, next time I will do quinoa. So I moved on to starting some (about 1 pound) boneless-skinless chicken breast cooking in chicken broth and a can of green chiles. Then I grabbed a jar of the enchilada sauce that I canned a few weeks ago and stirred about 1/2 the jar into the 2 cups of rice that I had. I heated it in a pan to get the flavor in it a little better. Put that into a greased 9x9 oven safe dish and then topped it with a few handfuls of crushed tortilla chips. Once the chicken was done I shredded it and added to the chicken as many of the green chiles that it cooked in as I could get out of the broth plus about 1/4 cup of the broth. Threw that into the pan that I heated the rice in and melted 1/2 a brick of cream cheese with it. Then put that over the rice/chips that were in the casserole dish. Topped that with more crushed tortilla chips, grated cheese and chopped tomatoes. It went into my oven for about 20 minutes st 350*
I was at this point a little nervous for my kitchen-sink Mexican casserole.
Maybe because I am still trying to recover from the horrible chocolate cupcakes that I made yesterday- recipe found on pintrest- that had to be turned into cakeballs to not call the whole thing a bust.
The spouse got home and the kids started grazing, so it was go time- I had to serve it, good or not. Anderson- the pickiest of any eater alive, looked at it and said "No Way! I said I wanted noodles with butter and cheese, not this...this...whatever it is. I'm not eating it." It's his typical response to anything that is not noodles with butter and cheese on them. But I am that mom that makes my kids eat things that I cook and then they have to wait for a bedtime before they can eat anything else, and that's just a small snack, so they learn to eat what is given to them.
Forks picked at the food and then went into mouths and the score board read 10's all the way around. EVERYONE loved it.
I had to snap a quick picture before it was devoured in round 2.
My first thought was to start cooking some quinoa, but when I glanced at the time and saw that the spouse was going to be landing at the Payne house, hungry and wanting instant food in 20 minutes, I decided on the left over rice that was in the fridge instead, next time I will do quinoa. So I moved on to starting some (about 1 pound) boneless-skinless chicken breast cooking in chicken broth and a can of green chiles. Then I grabbed a jar of the enchilada sauce that I canned a few weeks ago and stirred about 1/2 the jar into the 2 cups of rice that I had. I heated it in a pan to get the flavor in it a little better. Put that into a greased 9x9 oven safe dish and then topped it with a few handfuls of crushed tortilla chips. Once the chicken was done I shredded it and added to the chicken as many of the green chiles that it cooked in as I could get out of the broth plus about 1/4 cup of the broth. Threw that into the pan that I heated the rice in and melted 1/2 a brick of cream cheese with it. Then put that over the rice/chips that were in the casserole dish. Topped that with more crushed tortilla chips, grated cheese and chopped tomatoes. It went into my oven for about 20 minutes st 350*
I was at this point a little nervous for my kitchen-sink Mexican casserole.
Maybe because I am still trying to recover from the horrible chocolate cupcakes that I made yesterday- recipe found on pintrest- that had to be turned into cakeballs to not call the whole thing a bust.
The spouse got home and the kids started grazing, so it was go time- I had to serve it, good or not. Anderson- the pickiest of any eater alive, looked at it and said "No Way! I said I wanted noodles with butter and cheese, not this...this...whatever it is. I'm not eating it." It's his typical response to anything that is not noodles with butter and cheese on them. But I am that mom that makes my kids eat things that I cook and then they have to wait for a bedtime before they can eat anything else, and that's just a small snack, so they learn to eat what is given to them.
Forks picked at the food and then went into mouths and the score board read 10's all the way around. EVERYONE loved it.
I had to snap a quick picture before it was devoured in round 2.
What am I saying here? Unpin the Mexican casserole that is on your pinboard and
repin this one.
You can thank me later.
WIth chocolate. :)
repin this one.
You can thank me later.
WIth chocolate. :)
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