Tortillas stuffed with spicy chicken, cheddar cheese, tomatoes and sour cream. Using rotisserie or leftover, cooked chicken as well as baking instead of frying makes for a fast, easy meal. [Read more...]
Taco Taquitos
04/28/2013 · by · 21 Comments
Tortillas stuffed and rolled with seasoned taco meat and all your favorite fixin’s like cheddar cheese, avocado, salsa and sour cream. They’re pan-fried to a golden brown crispness with molten gooey insides. They’re the next best thing to a taco better than tacos. [Read more...]
Chicken Empanadas
03/05/2013 · by · 23 Comments
Flaky pastry crust wraps itself around shredded chicken, cream cheese, cheddar, corn and jalapeños to make these golden brown beauties.
A kind of play on jalapeño poppers. . .Only better ’cause there’s chicken, corn and pie crust involved. Where ever there’s buttery, tender pie crust you can find me. [Read more...]
Tex-Mex Chicken and Rice Soup
03/02/2013 · by · 26 Comments
I combined my chicken tinga tostadas and Tex-Mex rice into a soup! Thank-you Mom. Sometimes you give me the best ideas.
Tender cubes of chicken, rice and corn swimming in a mildly spiced broth with confetti-sized pieces of onion, red bell pepper, black olives and salsa. I chopped everything smaller than usual [Read more...]
Cheesy Skillet Tex-Mex Rice
02/19/2013 · by · 26 Comments
Skillet Tex-Mex rice with black olives, red bell peppers, corn, chili powder and sharp cheddar cheese. The moment I set eyes on this I had to have it but the technique, at first, totally scared me off. I kept coming back to it until I finally caved from wanton food lust.
The original recipe from the Kitchn tells you to crank the heat up to medium so the cheese can caramelize a.k.a. burn so you have charred black bits of cheddar cheese floating throughout your rice. Which, by the way they swear is “this side of heaven”. [Read more...]
