White Chicken Chili

White Chicken Chili

3-4 chicken breasts
3 cans Great Northern White beans
1 can Ro-Tel tomatoes (I just get the "original" flavor)
1 can Chicken Broth
1 Tbl Oil
3 cloves minced garlic
4 oz chopped green chilies
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1 onion (I just sprinkle a bunch of minced onion)

Cook & dice chicken.  Saute onions in oil (unless you take my easy route- minced!)

Combine all ingredients in pot and boil softly for about 15 minutes.  (You can also use a crock pot- 6 hours on high).  Stir it up good!

Serve with shredded cheese and sour cream!

Yum!!! :)

Dutch Oven

We went camping this weekend, and it was so much fun!!!  Last night, I cooked up a DELICIOUS dutch oven dinner!  So good!  And super simple.  For you cooking rookies out there, let me tell you how to make the best and easiest dutch oven dinner ever.

Put your choice of meat, vegetables, and seasonings in a dutch oven with some oil and water.  Cook it with coals (on top and bottom of the dutch oven), or just on a camp stove.  Wait til it's cooked all the way through.

That's all :)  Haha, easy, right?!  Let me tell you what I used!


The BEST Dutch Oven dinner ever

Red potatoes, sliced into thirds
Baby carrots
Sliced (not diced) onion
Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Salt and Pepper
Garlic Salt
Italian Seasoning
Vegetable Oil and a little bit of Water

Put it all in there, season it to taste, and cook it til it's tender!  It was wonderful!  Try it and enjoy it!

Beef, Pork, Chicken, Mmmm!

Name that line!  Anyone?  Anyone?  Let me help you: Disney's.... Mulan!  :-)

So here's a poll:  which of those three meats is YOUR favorite?

I grew up on Pork Roast.  We had it every Sunday.  And then we ate chicken with just about everything else.  Then of course there was turkey and ham on the holidays, and the occasional barbecue of hot dogs and hamburgers.

But I realized the other day that none of those things is beef!  Weird!  Of course I have had beef before, but it was not something I grew up with much at all.  Anyway, I went to Lee's the other day to buy a pork roast, and all of their Pork Roasts were ginormous, and I was only cooking for two people.  So I looked over and saw Beef roasts!  I had never had a beef roast before, but decided to try it.

I am converted.  Totally, and fully converted.  Beef roast.  Why did I have such a shortage of beef in my childhood?!  I love it love it love it!  Brock pointed out that it makes sense that I love the beef roast more- at restaurants I always order the steak.  And I love ground beef so much in tacos and soup.  And Roast Beef is hands down my favorite lunch meat on a sandwich.  And hamburgers are just delicious.  Plus, beef is totally healthier than pork.

So there's my story of my conversion to Beef over Pork.  It is so delicious!  And now let me share with you the easiest way to cook a delicious roast!


Crock pot!!

Add some oil and some water, and put the roast in it.

Add a bunch of salt and pepper, and season the whole thing (I like Italian Seasoning the best).

Cook on low for longer time; that helps it cook more evenly.

So delicious!  You can also add red potatoes and carrots in the crock pot with it if you want to make a full meal out of it.  It is so easy and healthy and not very expensive and super tasty!  Bueno!

Chicken Burritos!

I was sitting in my kitchen pondering on what I could possibly make for dinner because I had not planned ahead and didn't want to drive to the grocery store.  So I decided to concoct my own recipe....  Chicken Burritos!

Boil chicken and then dice it.

Make Rice (if you want details on how to do it, see my previous blogpost entitled "How to Make the Perfect Rice") and make sure you include minced onions and salt.
Drain and heat up some black beans.
Mix some canned green peppers in with your cooked rice.
Heat up some Tortillas and put the above ingredients inside them.
Top with shredded cheese and heat up til the cheese melts.

It turned out delicious!  If I did it again, I would have added some lettuce and tomatoes, and put some cheese inside as well as on top.  Here's to inventing new recipes!  Hooray!

Chicken Enchiladas!

Last night's project.  Brock told me this is his very favorite thing that I make, so I feel comfortable bragging a little in saying I ROCK at making Chicken Enchiladas!!!

They are also super easy and they make delicious leftovers!  You've gotta try this recipe!


1 dozen Medium Flour Tortillas
2 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
1 pt Sour Cream

Mixture #1:
1 chicken (or about 5-6 breasts) boiled and diced
1 small can green chilies
3-4 cups shredded colby jack cheese (depending on how cheesy you want it!)

Divide Mixture #1 evenly into tortilla shells and roll up next to each other in a greased 9 x 13 pan.  Mix Sour Cream and Cream of Chicken and spread generously over the top of the tortillas.  Top with more cheese!  Cook 350° 30-40 minutes.  Ready to serve!

Secret time-saving tip:
Canned white chicken breast instead of boiling chicken is WAY faster and easier!  So if you're in a hurry, that's the way to go!

Enjoy!