mexican rice
another recipe to add to your cinco de mayo fiesta & the perfect side dish for all these enchiladas we’ve been posting lately. it would be especially great with these. this recipe comes from none other than the pioneer woman who some friends & i are going to charlotte to see on friday!!!!!! i’m bringing [...]
salsa verde sour cream enchiladas
let’s get this fiesta started. cinco de mayo is wednesday after all & you’ll need a little something else to go alongside your margaritas. trust me. i’ve learned this lesson the hard way, aka the guy fieri road show circa my birthday 2009. things started innocently enough, but eventually something that i can best describe [...]
chicken enchiladas
after the enchiladas diablo debacle, i had to redeem myself. i knew annie wouldn’t let me down. full of flavor. way less heat. that can be a good thing, i’ve learned. from annie’s eats 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 jalapenos, seeded & finely chopped 1 tsp canola oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 3 tablespoons [...]
spicy tortilla soup
Ok. First, let’s talk about how our soup looks nothing like the one from food network magazine. (theirs vs ours) I don’t know where theirs got that rich red color, but I’m guessing it has something to do with food stylists, because ours sure as hell didn’t have that intense red broth (yes, it [...]
cilantro chimichurri
Chimichurri is pretty much an Argentinian pesto, but made with parsley. But guess what? My parsley’s all dead. Don’t know how that happened, but we had plenty of cilantro, so we improvised. The following recipe is not for the chimichurri purists, but is was based on the real thing. And you know what? It was [...]
chicken chilaquiles
I used to hate chipotle peppers and the smoky flavor of the adobo sauce, but now I can’t get enough. Weird, huh? I saw this chicken stew on another food blog I enjoy, Voila!, and needed to try it. I refused to go to the grocery store, so my ingredients were slightly off, aka canned [...]
black beans & rice
Tom just looked at me and said “Don’t you just mix black beans and rice together?” And you could…but if I’ve said it once on this blog, I’ve said it a thousand times. I am just not a fan of plain white rice. Now I know many of you out there like it, but really, [...]
chipotle tomato rice
Whenever Tom and I don’t have any dinner inspiration, we make fajitas. They’re quick, easy, and relatively healthy. We also have a ton of rice in the pantry, and I am not a fan of plain rice at all, so I found a little something to jazz it up and go with our fajitas. from [...]
pink mayo
It’s tasty, and pink! Perfect! Typically a topping for fish tacos, but we used it to spice up our thrown-together shrimp fajitas. a Tyler Florence recipe featured on Living in the Kitchen with Puppies 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup mayo 1 1/2 chipotle peppers, in adobo (found in a can on the international aisle) [...]
southwest lasagna
Not much to say about this one. Yes, it is good. It’s just a different version of Creamy Chicken Enchiladas, with some extras. And in lasagna form, since the enchiladas fall apart all the time anyway. 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked and shredded 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup (we used the Healthy [...]
