Last night I came home and asked the CEO what we should have for dinner and he said "I figured we have so much food leftover, I would eat something in the firgde." I immediately whined and said "But if I don;'t cook something, I won't have anything to blog about." And he (to his credit, didn't roll his eyes at me).
So off I went to drum up some potential dinner ideas.
Something you may not know about me. For both my soap blog and this one, I pull ideas and information from literally hundreds of blogs. I read them each day and isolate recipes that fit our lifestyle/my skill/ our tastes, I catalogue into a spreadsheet of ideas. I mark them "ok for all" or "cheat" and note any ingredients that I don't typically keep around.
Last night, I pulled up about 8 and then called the CEO. One of the recipes was one that just got posted yesterday and I had been thinking about it all afternoon. It was the first on my list and I swear The CEO stopped listening after this one. So, I made Chicken Dorito.
Bev Cooks is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs. The author of the blog has a great sense of humor, impeccable taste in food and has a great way of making the recipes seem completely makeable.
PLUS, she says things like "I want that cheese to be my blankie." And now I will tantalize you with what this looks like on a plate...
What goes in:
1 rotisserie chicken, shredded. I got The CEO to help me shred this more finely. He did an awesome job!
1/2 pack taco seasoning (I used just basic old El Paso. The original recipe calls for 2 tablespoons and I probably used more. I guess I like to blow out my own taste buds.
2 cans cream of chicken soup (The recipe calls for one cream of chicken and one cream of mushroom...The CEO hates mushrooms so I improvised)
1 can tomato sauce
2 tablespoons jalapeño sauce (for these two, the recipe calls for rotel and we don't eat cooked chunks of tomato so these two together are my version of non chunky rotel)
2 cups white cheddar cheese, shredded
2 cups pepper jack cheese, shredded (Bev used 2-3 cups white cheddar...I'm nuts)
1/2 bag blue corn tortilla chips
Whatcha Do:
Preheat the oven to 350. Spread the tortilla chips in the bottom of a baking pan. Then, mix the chicken, the soups, the jalapeños, the tomato sauce, and the taco seasoning together in a big bowl. Once combined, spread it out over the corn chips. After that, dump the cheese on top. Take pictures.
Initially, upon seeing this completed work, I noted to The CEO that this looks like something found on This is Why You're Fat.
Anyway, then you put on some tin foil, and put this in the oven for 30 minutes. That's it! When that timer goes off, take off the foil, turn the oven up to broil and let cook for another 3-5 minutes until the cheese is brown and bubbly.
When you take it out of the oven, it'll look like this(ish)
Wait for it to cool (as much as you can, we were like two salivating hyenas with our little salivating dogs at our feet).
Put it on a plate, like so...
Nom the crap out of this stuff.
I may have gone a little off the reservation with the heat (adding more taco seasoning, the pepper jack) but The CEO still ate two helpings.
This stuff is GOOD! Just amazingly delish. And sinful and probably 27,000 calories and I just didn't care.
Visit Bevcooks.com. Make her recipes.
ZOMG so good.
I kinda want some right now.
So off I went to drum up some potential dinner ideas.
Something you may not know about me. For both my soap blog and this one, I pull ideas and information from literally hundreds of blogs. I read them each day and isolate recipes that fit our lifestyle/my skill/ our tastes, I catalogue into a spreadsheet of ideas. I mark them "ok for all" or "cheat" and note any ingredients that I don't typically keep around.
Last night, I pulled up about 8 and then called the CEO. One of the recipes was one that just got posted yesterday and I had been thinking about it all afternoon. It was the first on my list and I swear The CEO stopped listening after this one. So, I made Chicken Dorito.
Bev Cooks is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs. The author of the blog has a great sense of humor, impeccable taste in food and has a great way of making the recipes seem completely makeable.
PLUS, she says things like "I want that cheese to be my blankie." And now I will tantalize you with what this looks like on a plate...
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| I know it looks kind of messy...keep reading |
1 rotisserie chicken, shredded. I got The CEO to help me shred this more finely. He did an awesome job!
1/2 pack taco seasoning (I used just basic old El Paso. The original recipe calls for 2 tablespoons and I probably used more. I guess I like to blow out my own taste buds.
2 cans cream of chicken soup (The recipe calls for one cream of chicken and one cream of mushroom...The CEO hates mushrooms so I improvised)
1 can tomato sauce
2 tablespoons jalapeño sauce (for these two, the recipe calls for rotel and we don't eat cooked chunks of tomato so these two together are my version of non chunky rotel)
2 cups white cheddar cheese, shredded
2 cups pepper jack cheese, shredded (Bev used 2-3 cups white cheddar...I'm nuts)
1/2 bag blue corn tortilla chips
Whatcha Do:
Preheat the oven to 350. Spread the tortilla chips in the bottom of a baking pan. Then, mix the chicken, the soups, the jalapeños, the tomato sauce, and the taco seasoning together in a big bowl. Once combined, spread it out over the corn chips. After that, dump the cheese on top. Take pictures.
See the wonder and joy of this dish from the side and the top.
Initially, upon seeing this completed work, I noted to The CEO that this looks like something found on This is Why You're Fat.
Anyway, then you put on some tin foil, and put this in the oven for 30 minutes. That's it! When that timer goes off, take off the foil, turn the oven up to broil and let cook for another 3-5 minutes until the cheese is brown and bubbly.
When you take it out of the oven, it'll look like this(ish)
Wait for it to cool (as much as you can, we were like two salivating hyenas with our little salivating dogs at our feet).
Put it on a plate, like so...
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| Actually, maybe you shouldn't let the plate dangle off the edge of the counter |
I may have gone a little off the reservation with the heat (adding more taco seasoning, the pepper jack) but The CEO still ate two helpings.
This stuff is GOOD! Just amazingly delish. And sinful and probably 27,000 calories and I just didn't care.
Visit Bevcooks.com. Make her recipes.
ZOMG so good.
I kinda want some right now.
This looks delicious and downright dangerous! Great post.
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