In the Land of Bland: Chicken Fajitas

Tonight's dinner will be none other than my fave: Chicken Fajitas!

In our house bland is usually the name of the game and my fajitas fit nice into that category though there is no shortage of peppers in my pretty little fajitas!

What you need:
Medium sized burrito wraps
Brown rice (I use the five or 10 minute stuff)**see below for side note
4 large(ish) peepers in various colors
Garlic
1 onion
Sour cream
Shredded colby jack cheese
Salsa
1 pkg. Chicken
Garlic

**If you are feeling as lazy as I sometimes feel you can even use the uncle Ben's microwave rice in a pouch

Directions:
(brace yourself, its gonna be a tuffy,lol)

1. Clean chick and cut it up into small bite sized pieces. You can also cut it into thin strips. I cut it up depending on how impatient I am feeling. If I just want to eat already I cut it up small so it cooks quicker.

2. Spray a pan with Pam and put chicken in a cook.

3. While chicken is cooking cut peppers into thin strips and cut up onion. Please both veggies into same pan as chicken and let it all cook. Add garlic and pepper and whatever else floats your boat.

4. Prepare your rice.

5. When chicken is done and veggies are cooked to you liking remove from stove and....THAT'S IT!

6. I am no fancy pants so I just throw the warmed wraps, rice, bag of cheese, the salsa and sour cream on the table.

My layering technique:
~Layer from bottom to top~
Warm wrap
Sour cream
Rice
Chicken and veggie mixture
Salsa
Cheese

By all means do it as you wish, BUT please do share!

What do you like on your fajitas??

Cheers,
eLp

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Update on Buffalo Chicken Sandwhiches

Blech!

I got half way through making the buffalo chicken sandwiches and called it a wash.

The buffalo sauce was what ruined it for me. As I started to melt the butter and hot sauce together on the stove I just couldn't convince myself that slathering butter and hot sauce on my chick would be tasty.

I dipped my spoon in the sauce and my suspicions were right.... blech!

I didn't not care fr the taste at all.

Perhaps you will...but it was not what I was looking for!

Do you have a Buffalo wing sauce recipe you would recommend....do share!

Cheers,
eLp

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Bufflo Chicken Sandwiches and Spinach Artichoke Dip

I love spicy anything, husband...not so much, so any chance I get to have spicy things that I can control the spicy factor on, I'm game!

Tonight we will be having Buffalo chicken sandwiches. Though I don't like to admit it (who am I Kidding..I could care less) I like short cuts. While grocery shopping, I picked up a bag of the frozen breaded chick tenderloins so I could bypass doing it my self.

The sauce is super easy. You need 2 things:

Hot Sauce
Butter
(add a smidgen of vinegar if you would like)

Cook the chicken pieces in oven according to direction on bag.

While cooking:

Place butter and hot sauce in sauce pan and let melt Slowly...very slowly!

You can change the intensity to your liking by adding more butter or less hot sauce.

Once chicken is done put in a dish and cove with sauce.

Place chicken in the oven and broil for a minute or two for a crispy sandwich.

Serve blue cheese dressing on the side.
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With the sandwiches tonight I will be serving spinach dip.


Let me tell you...I found this spinach dip recipe at none other than allrecipes.com and this is the best one I have ever tasted...ever!

I make this often when we have company.

Ingredients:

1 (14 ounce) can artichoke hearts, drained
1/3 cup grated Romano cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sour cream
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
   
3. In a blender or food processor, place artichoke hearts, Romano cheese, Parmesan cheese and garlic . Pulse until chopped, but not ground. Set aside.
   
4. In a medium bowl, mix together spinach, heavy cream, sour cream and mozzarella cheese. Stir in artichoke mixture. Spoon into prepared baking dish.
   
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until cheese is melted and bubbly.

**If you are not into artichoke in your dip just leave it out and skip the blender/foor processor step...just add the cheeses and garlic to the stuff in the next step. Ive done this a few times to cut down on time since I was in a rush. Still tasted absolutly delish!

artichoke dip from allrecipes.com

sauce recipe from allrecipes.com

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A Chicken Casserole, YU-UM

**Added to Kelly's Korner- Show Us Your lIfe

Just finished dinner (by myself since the husband is working late) and I am so excited. I just tried a delish new dish that I found and I couldn't be happier!


I had mentioned this recipe last week to hubs and he seemed than enthusiastic than a bundle of hay. After making it...I think he will be pleasantly surprised. He was concerned that it would be mushy-ish. No at all!


So I give you....


A Chicken Casserole (I know, so original)

Ingridents:
1 (6 ounce) package wild rice (such as Uncle Ben's ®)
3 cups water
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast meat - cut into chunks
1 (14.5 ounce) can French-cut green beans, drained
1 (10.75 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup mayonnaise

Directions:
1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. Bring the wild rice and water to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until the rice is tender but not mushy, 20 to 25 minutes. Drain off any excess liquid, fluff the rice with a fork, and cook uncovered 5 minutes more.

3. While the rice cooks, heat the oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the chicken and cook until completely browned on all sides, about 5 minutes. Combine the rice, chicken, green beans, mushroom soup, and mayonnaise in a large baking dish.

4.Bake in the preheated oven until the chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 45 minutes.

Recipe found on All Recipes

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My dish on the dish:

Really really good. Pain in the ass to make but really good.

I decided that I wanted to use frozen green beans instead of canned. They pack much more of a nutritional value. So I had to make the chicken, make the green beans and make the rice...then mix it together and bake it. That's ALOT of pots and pans (and time) which means alot of cleanup.

The recipe calls for mayo in it. In my house, we don't do mayo, so I omitted it. Still delish!

I may, since I don't want to use canned green beans (which would cut prep time down) may make a chicken dish one night and make enough chicken for left overs so I can skip making one thing for that meal.

If you try it, please come back and tell me what you thought!

Cheers,

eLp

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For the Love Of Chicken

If you read the about me section (I hope you did because it pretty much spells out everything me) you would know that me and chicken are like this (picture me crossing my fingers)!


At the very least the husband and I have some sort of chicken dish two times per week.


Since I have such a love of chicken I thought it fitting for the first post to be a chicken recipe.


Bruchetta Chicken:


Ingredients:
1 Package of boneless, skinless chicken breast
*1- 1 1/2 containers of diced tomato
Diced onion
Wishbone Red Wine Balsamic Spray
Basil
Minced Garlic
Spray butter


Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350


1. Clean up chicken by cutting all visible fat off ( I am a freak about this)


2. Spray Pam into a baking dish and place chicken in pan


3. Spread minced garlic on chicken (use as much or as little as you would like, we are garlic whores in our house so more is usually better)


4. Top chicken with diced tomato's ( we are also tomato obsessed so I pile it on too) and onion


5. Sprinkle basil over tomato and onion


6. Give a few squirts of spray butter to top it off


7. Bake in oven until chicken is done (I never pay attention to time so when the chicken is done the dish is ready)


I usually serve this dish with Near East Rice Pilaf. Follow the directions on the box.




*Diced tomato- At the main food store here we have a section in produce that is already diced veggies (onion, tomato... etc). I know Walmart near us has that too so maybe try there if your local food store does not have it. Or you could you know, dice tomato yourself..that's just not my style!

Cheers, eLp

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