So, I didn't get a picture of this one, but dang it was good. My girlfriend Krista came over and I gave her a little taste and she loved it. The recipe came from a cookbook that my fabulous father ordered for my sister and I. They are quick and family friendly so I can't wait to test them out, post them and then perhaps inspire you to also get the book.
Halloween Chicken Chili
4 cans Great Northern white beans (I used half white kidney and half blackbeans---just cause i love 'em)
1 onion, diced
4 garlic cloves
1 T. olive oil
2 c. shredded chicken (buy the cooked one at the deli and save yourself some time and effort)
2 c. chicken broth
one 4 oz can diced green chiles
2 t. ground cumin
2 t. cayenne pepper (you may want to use alittle less if you have small kiddies)
2 t. oregano
Drain the beans. In a medium pot, cook the onion and garlic in the oil over medium heat, stirring until softened. Add the broth, beans, chicken, chiles and spices. Simmer to let heat through. Serve with french bread, corn torilla chips or Fritos. Also I added lime juice on top.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
So summer has come and gone
I'm back!! I was always here but I just seemed to have been crazy busy all summer and never got around to posting anything. Don't ask me what I was crazy busy with, other than entertaining 3 fabulous kids (and alittle refereeing job that I seem to have picked up on the side!!) ;)
So I'm back into packing lunches for the kiddies (or should I say they are). I bought one of those three drawer plasic containers and on Sunday night I fill it up. The top is juice boxes, the middle is crackers (of all sorts - graham, stone wheat thins, pretzels etc) and the bottom is the fruit drawer with canned fruits, apple sauces and dried fruit. They kids know that they are allowed to go 1,2,3 down the drawers - what I mean buy this is they are allowed to take one from the top, 2 from the middle drawer. The third is abit trickier since they have to go into the fridge to get a veggie to make it three (I admit I let them take 2 fruits and one veggie if they want). This also has really helped out with the "disappearing lunch foods" I don't know about your house but I would buy things for lunches and when we needed them they seemed to have disappeared down some bottomless pit!!! The bottom crisper in my fridge is dedicated to lunch things they can take. I am totally loaded with cheese strings, yogurt (spelling!!), etc. It has worked amazing well this first week back.....talk to me in a month and I may be typing a different story! All three kids have been very involved in packing their lunches without any fighting about what is a balanced lunch. Carter is even packing healthy snacks for preschool on his own - I need to pause to wipe a tiny tear about my baby being so independant......
I will not be posting a recipe today but here are a few top lunch ideas ( I haven't even heard the words "I want Oreo Cakesters" out of anybody's mouth yet! Wonder how long that will last - I'll keep you all posted):
1. microwave popcorn - pop it, let it cool and send in ziplocs....I promise you will be a star if you do this!
2. mini bagel sandwiches - I asked the bakery girls to get me some bags of the minis that were still frozen, pull how ever many that you need out and microwave them for about 20 seconds to thaw them (Ainsley's most requested this week and she said all the kids in her class want them for lunch too..let me just pat myself on the back for this one)
3. dried mango pieces - hello can we say tastes like candy???
4. Pringles baked wheat stix in pizza flavor - they're in the chip aisle by the beef jerky at Safeway
5. supreme chicken noodle cup of soup - boiling water in a thermos, add the packet and you are good to go!
6. sugar peas - enough said
7. Quaker oatmeal squares in maple & brown sugar flavor - dry in a ziploc, ooh so good
The kids school is nut free and fish free so it's a bit of a killer (no pun intended) to think of things to send that won't get soggy and are tasty. I hope this helps some of you out that are already dreading the brown bagging!!!
So I'm back into packing lunches for the kiddies (or should I say they are). I bought one of those three drawer plasic containers and on Sunday night I fill it up. The top is juice boxes, the middle is crackers (of all sorts - graham, stone wheat thins, pretzels etc) and the bottom is the fruit drawer with canned fruits, apple sauces and dried fruit. They kids know that they are allowed to go 1,2,3 down the drawers - what I mean buy this is they are allowed to take one from the top, 2 from the middle drawer. The third is abit trickier since they have to go into the fridge to get a veggie to make it three (I admit I let them take 2 fruits and one veggie if they want). This also has really helped out with the "disappearing lunch foods" I don't know about your house but I would buy things for lunches and when we needed them they seemed to have disappeared down some bottomless pit!!! The bottom crisper in my fridge is dedicated to lunch things they can take. I am totally loaded with cheese strings, yogurt (spelling!!), etc. It has worked amazing well this first week back.....talk to me in a month and I may be typing a different story! All three kids have been very involved in packing their lunches without any fighting about what is a balanced lunch. Carter is even packing healthy snacks for preschool on his own - I need to pause to wipe a tiny tear about my baby being so independant......
I will not be posting a recipe today but here are a few top lunch ideas ( I haven't even heard the words "I want Oreo Cakesters" out of anybody's mouth yet! Wonder how long that will last - I'll keep you all posted):
1. microwave popcorn - pop it, let it cool and send in ziplocs....I promise you will be a star if you do this!
2. mini bagel sandwiches - I asked the bakery girls to get me some bags of the minis that were still frozen, pull how ever many that you need out and microwave them for about 20 seconds to thaw them (Ainsley's most requested this week and she said all the kids in her class want them for lunch too..let me just pat myself on the back for this one)
3. dried mango pieces - hello can we say tastes like candy???
4. Pringles baked wheat stix in pizza flavor - they're in the chip aisle by the beef jerky at Safeway
5. supreme chicken noodle cup of soup - boiling water in a thermos, add the packet and you are good to go!
6. sugar peas - enough said
7. Quaker oatmeal squares in maple & brown sugar flavor - dry in a ziploc, ooh so good
The kids school is nut free and fish free so it's a bit of a killer (no pun intended) to think of things to send that won't get soggy and are tasty. I hope this helps some of you out that are already dreading the brown bagging!!!
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