Veggies 'n Chicken

This has become one of my favorite meals ever.  

It is so simple and totally healthy.

Here's the recipe:

Mixed vegetables (usually frozen)

Chicken 

(Canned, leftover, shredded rotisserie, or pretty much any chicken that you can shred/cube easily)

That's it.

All you do is boil/steam the veggies, (they can be any veggies you want), then transfer the veggies to a skillet and put the chicken in with them, heat for a couple minutes, stir it a few times, and... Done.

It is delicious. 

Shredded Chicken Taco Meat

We've started a tradition in our apartment where we have a community dinner (with some of the boys downstairs) every Sunday.
This Sunday, we made Navajo Tacos. Yum!! Sadly, I didn't document the whole thing, but basically, you make big scones, and pile on whatever taco stuff you want.

For our meat, I made some really yummy shredded chicken, totally from scratch.
Here's how:

Boil 4-5 chicken breasts (just on the stove in water), until thoroughly cooked.
While they're boiling, prepare the seasoning.

3 tsp. chili powder

2 1/2 tsp. paprika

2 1/4 tsp. cumin

1 1/4 tsp. onion powder

1/4 tsp. garlic powder

Dash cayenned pepper  (I didn't have any cayenned pepper, so I used some Red Pepper that was in our spice rack. )

(I also added some pepper from a pepper grinder that I have.)

Once the chicken breasts are fully cooked, pull them out and either shred or cube them, then put the chicken in a skillet on medium heat. Add about 1/4 cup of water, and your homemade seasoning, stir together.  Let it fry for a few minutes, until the water in the bottom is gone. 

Put on tacos, add whatever other toppings you'd like, and serve! 

Makes about 10 servings. 

*Note- The batch I made used about 3-1/2 chicken breasts, and I had a little extra seasoning. 

Enjoy!

Muddy Buddies

I'm at home for the weekend, and my roommates Rachel, Michelle and Mitch (yes, he is considered a roommate.) made Muddy Buddies, without me!  Which, I guess is okay, because I ditched them and went home for the weekend. I'm glad they had fun and yummy treats, but I'm rather sad that I wasn't there to take pictures and stuff, because I'm sure they had lots of fun adventures in making the Muddy Buddies.

I stole this picture off of Facebook...  Shhhhh, don't tell!

New Kitchen Stuff?? :)

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Everyone should check out this cool offer, and follow her blog, because it is super-awesome. :)

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It Wasn't Us!!!!

So today I am in the middle of a nice power nap, and am rudely awakened by the fire alarm.  I hurry and grab some shoes and my room key, shut my door and go outside.  As I pass the second floor, I notice that there is smoke coming out of room 201.  Immediately it all makes sense.  Room 201 consists of 6 boys, who happen to be in my FHE family.  I get outside, find the 201 boys and inquire as to what happened.  I find out that Tyrell was attempting to make ramen noodles in the microwave.  But left out the water.  And pressed the wrong button, so they ended up being cooked for like 20 minutes or something..
Yep. That's my 'son'.  I'm proud.

It only took about 5 minutes to get us back into the building this time, they actually came to the right building the first time!  My confidence in my fire department has been regained.

Chocolate Muffins/Brownies/what????

             Once upon a time, Michelle had a chocolate craving.  Michelle also had a chocolate muffin mix.  Thus, it was determined that Michelle should use the chocolate muffin mix to satisfy her chocolate craving.
So, Michelle poured and cracked, mixed and stirred, and voila!  A chocolate muffin mix was made. 


             Now, Michelle was about to pour the mix into the muffin tin when she had an idea.  Why not make the muffin mix into cookies?  Then, Michelle realized that the muffin mix was much too thin to create cookies.  So instead, Michelle pulled the pan out of the toaster oven, and decided to make the muffin mix into brownies. She poured the mix into the pan, and spread it out, and was worried because it looked very thin.  But, her roommate Emily convinced her that it would be fine, and just to try it.  So, Michelle put the pan in the oven and set the timer for 11 minutes.  When the 11 minutes were up, Michelle pulled the pan out of the oven, and to her surprise, the muffin mix had risen to almost fill the pan!  


            Then, Emily had an idea.  Emily took some bittersweet chocolate chunk stuff she had, along with some yummy mint chips, put them into a Pyrex measuring cup, and melted them together in the microwave.  After one minute in the microwave, they weren't very melted.  So, Emily put it back in the microwave for another minute.  After this, they looked a little more melted, but not by much.  


            By now, Rachel had come in and inquired what was going on.  Emily and Michelle told her of their baking adventures thus far, and then Rachel suggested stirring the chocolate-mint mixture to make it melt better.  So, Emily stirred the mixture, and indeed, it was a lot more melted than she thought.  However, it was a very strange consistency, and gave off a strange smell when stirred.  The mixture was about the consistency and texture of Yoplait Whips Chocolate Mousse style yogurt, and smelled like... Well, it just smelled strange.  So, Emily tried putting it back in the microwave for another minute to melt it completely. When she pulled it out of the microwave, nothing had changed, except that it was even hotter than before.  


           The chocolate-mint mixture was still giving off a strange smell, and looked rather dry, so Rachel suggested adding milk to the mixture.  As Emily poured milk into the measuring glass, it gave off a strange sizzling noise, but Emily mixed it together, and it started to look more like it was supposed to.  Alas, it was too runny to pour on top of the muffin/brownies, so Emily stuck it in the freezer, hoping to get it to cool down and thicken up a bit.  Eventually, it did so, and was thick enough to drizzle on top of the muffin/brownie.  And oh boy, did it look yummy.

           So, we cut it up with none other than the Cutco Spatula Spreader (which is absolutely amazing, just by the way. It cuts AND serves, and it's super flexible, and makes cool noises.), and served it up.  It turned out to be pretty darn good. :)

           Sadly, there are no pictures to document this, but, we had leftover chocolate/mint/milk stuff, and it was really really good just plain, so, we ate it. :)

           Next time, we will turn brownie mix into cookies.  (At least, that's the idea.) 

We Play Crap, We Make Poop.

Adventure #1.

So, one day, Jamie made some chocolate cake mix, but had no frosting.  So, she decided to turn the cake mix into cookies.  There is no real recipe for this, we just added some flour.  This is the product:

Then, we had lots of leftover batter.  So, of course, we put it in a muffin tin! 

And... Here's the product:

Lastly, this is my favorite picture from the whole thing.  This is my roommate Jamie.  And, this picture describes her pretty darn well.

Up next time, brownies/muffins/what??????

Stay tuned!