Easy Peasy Creamy Chicken Burrittos

So- I love these... I think they're nummy and so simple to use and I only use them for one meal (which is super hard since they, like I said, are so easy to use)

So basic ingredients are:

Chicken breast- grilled strips 

1/4 c to 1/2 c Sour Cream

1/4 c to 1 c Cheddar Cheese- grated

2 tsp(ish) of Chili Arlic Sauce- not paste!

Italian Seasonings

Meat Tenderizer salt

and any other spice that tickles your fancy

Tortillas

Avocado

Tomatoes

Lettuce

Throw the chicken strips (they're frozen and they cook down just fine) and thaw them out, cooking them down.  Add the Chili sauce,  and seasonings and mix together- causing a nice nummy smell.  Cook together.  When the chicken is thoroughly cooked down, add sour cream and mix together.  Top with melted cheese, remove from heat and cover.

Warm up tortillas (or cook 'em up... we get the uncooked variety and they. are. amazing.)  Smooch down some avocado, add a little bit of salt to enhance the nummy avocado flavor. Dish up some of the chicken stuffs and put on avocado.  Top with tomatoes, lettuce, and salsa of your choice- again we really enjoy Pace Medium.  Wrap and enjoy! 

Seriously- so easy and such but so nummy. :-)

Hearty Taco Soup

We made nummy taco soup for dinner tonight and had friends over to enjoy- figured we'd post the recipe since it was so good!

One big can of Stewed Tomatoes, with the tomatoes diced

(or 2 smaller cans of diced)

1 can pinto beans

1 can black beans *rinsed*

1/2 bag (smaller) of frozen corn

2 chicken breast halves

1 stalk green onion diced

hot taco sauce

**(to taste)**

cumin

minced garlic

dry mustard

celery salt

meat tenderizer/ season salt

garlic salt

ketchup (slight- very slight amounts)

lime juice

Throw all canned ingredients and the "to taste" ingredients together- before adding the chicken breast.  Do just before "enough" and add chicken halves and corn

Let the crock pot do the work and put it on high for 3 hours.  Check the chicken.  When chicken is done, pull from crock pot and shred, replacing chicken after shredding.  

{taste again}

Add more ingredients- mainly garlic salt and cumin.  Just to taste.  Let cook for another hour to blend in the other tastes beautifully.  

Serve with cheese, sour cream, and quesedillas with dipping sauces.

Enjoy!  This stuff is filling!  So you {could} just enjoy it by itself!

Mexican Pasta Shells

This is a recipe that Husband's mother made... we just kinda made it our own...

Mexican Pasta Shells

1 lb lean ground beef
1/2 can of black re-fried beans
1/2 block of fat-free cream cheese
2 c  low fat shredded cheese
1 small can of tomato sauce
(I like the big one, but I like sauce. )
Salsa 
(any kind- we used Medium Pace)
taco seasonings that you enjoy-
(we used a little bit of cumin, season all salt, celery salt, salt, red pepper flakes, tiny amounts of all spice, dried mustard)
1/2 small yellow onion- minced tiny tiny tiny or, if you're like me, pretty much mulched
2 tsp.(ish) minced garlic
1/2 box of Pasta Jumbo Shells
handful of crushed tortilla chips

Brown the beef with the minced garlic and onion.  Add your taco seasonings so that the meat has a taco-flavor to it.  Add a little bit of tomato sauce- until the meat is reddish.  Add re-fried black beans.  Mix together.  Add cream cheese- mix together.  Add a little bit of salsa, more tomato sauce.

Cook until "sticky".

As you cook the meat, be sure to have the noodles boiling.  <DO NOT OVER BOIL>.  Only boil until they are mostly done.  Rinse off in cool water so that you can actually touch noodles. 

When the taco filling is done, use spoon and spoon in 

(we used a medium spoon and filled them full- not stuffed and just had the right amount) 

 Place all filled shells in a 9x9 casserole dish.  Squish all filled noodles in. 

With the remaining tomato sauce, add more salsa to it- until it is as hot or as tomato-y as you like.  We liked it spicier-   Pour over noodles-  Sprinkle cheese on top.  Then add crushed tortilla chips on top.  If you wish to have more sauce, you can always open up another can and make it more soupy..

Don't forget to bake it in the oven at 350' until the cheese is all melty and gooey... 

serves well with cottage cheese, salad, or corn... or all 3 if you're feeling ambitious.