lindsey eats

Mexican Feast tonight!

Chicken tacos with guacamole, rice & sour cream.

Chicken tacos:

Stuff you need:

• Boneless chicken breasts, about 1 per person
• Jar of salsa, I usually use medium
• Taco seasoning, either a packet or your own mix
• Onion (optional)
• Bell pepper (optional)
• Crock pot
• Tortillas - flour or corn, your choice

Stuff you do:

• Put chicken breasts in crock pot & sprinkle with taco seasoning (I’ve started with frozen breasts and everything cooks in time)
• If you’re including onion and/or pepper, chop into chunks & add to crock pot
• Cover with salsa
• Cook all day
• Shred chicken
• Eat

Guacamole:

Stuff you need:

• 2 avocados
• 1/2 a red onion, chopped finely
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• lime juice
• Salt, pepper, cayenne
• Cilantro

Stuff you do:

• Chop avocados
• Put in bowl with onion & garlic
• Sprinkle in lime juice & spices
• Mix until combined
• Season as needed

Serve in bowls and go crazy.  The tac-rritos were insanely yummy, and rival our favorite Mexican place.

Stupidly Simple Pasta Bake

Stuff you need:

• Sausage of some sort (We used this really great chipotle cherry chicken from Whole Foods)
• Tomato sauce (We used roasted veggie from a jar, again from Whole Foods, but any kind will do)
• Box of small sized pasta (aka not spaghetti/linguine.  Penne or rigatoni are good choices)
• Sundried tomatoes
• Onion
• Garlic
• Mozzarella cheese

Stuff you do:

• Grill/somehow cook sausage
• Cook pasta
• Heat sauce
• Preheat oven to 350°
• Sautee onions and garlic & add to sauce
• Chop sundried tomatoes & add to sauce
• When sausage is done, cut into pieces & add to sauce
• When pasta is done add to sauce
• Put half into a oven proof dish, add some mozzarella cheese
• Top with the rest of the pasta and more mozzarella cheese
• Devour!

It’s stupidly simple and you can make endless variations on the theme - the chipotle sausage was great because it gave it a nice spiciness.

I’ve spent 75% of today in the kitchen

• French toast & bacon
• Carmelizing onions for French onion soup
• Made another gay cake: