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Sweet Potato Foil Packet Tacos

May 12th, 2012
by erin.
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Sweet Potato Foil Packets

Date: 5/8/2012

Recipe: http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/sweet-potato-foil-packet-tacos/

Modifications: I used ground turkey, black beans, and did not peel the sweet potatoes. I didn’t have tomato sauce, so I just used some crushed tomatoes instead. We use this taco seasoning recipe.

Time to table: 30 minutes, plus 30 minutes of baking time

Servings: 6 adults

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: Like

Notes: My friend Chelsea sent me this recipe, and I immediately knew it would be a winner in our house! The best part about these is that you really can prep everything completely beforehand, and then just pop the foil packets in the oven when you’re ready to eat. Ben has an oven at work and was able to bring the extra packets to work the next few days. It is important to layer the packets with the sweet potatoes on the bottom, if they are on top they won’t get cooked through. We served with tortillas and sour cream.

Sweet Potato Foil Packets

Chili Macaroni and Cheese

Apr 20th, 2012
by erin.
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Chili Mac n Cheese

Date: 4/18/2012

Recipe: http://weelicious.com/2011/02/02/four-bean-chili-mac-cheese/

Modifications: I added a lot of sour cream since I was using 2% milk and because sour cream is delicious, and I think I used too much pasta so I added more chili and cheese to compensate.

Time to table: 20 minutes

Servings: 5 adults

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: Love

Notes: Again, this was so easy – I LOVE the concept of using leftovers to make a slightly different meal. We will definitely be trying this more! We all loved this meal in both forms – Annie probably enjoyed it a bit more here – mostly she just picked out each noodle though :)

Annie eating the noodles

Annie eating the noodles

Chicken chili verde

Feb 22nd, 2012
by ben.
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Crockpot Chicken Chili Verde

Date: 2/6/2012

Recipe: http://weelicious.com/2011/10/04/crock-pot-chicken-chili-verde/

Modifications: We basically turned this into a chili and didn’t serve it over rice. We added chopped spinach and white beans at the end. For the chicken we used a 1.6 lb package of boneless, skinless thighs. I upped the garlic from one clove to six.

Time to table: 15 minutes prep, 4 hours cook time

Servings: 4 adults

Ben: Love

Erin: Like

Annie: Like

Notes: I thought to add the spinach later on in this recipe, then as Erin was looking at it, she remarked that it was odd that it didn’t have any beans in it. Knowing that we had a can of beans in the cupboard, I threw those in too, forgetting it was supposed to be served over rice, so it became more of a chili, but I thought these were great modifications. The only liquid in the dish is from the salsa verde. We topped our with cheese and sour cream and had the remaining beer bread along with it as well. We’ll definitely make this again and I think I’ll add more spinach or another vegetable. This ended up being similar to the white chicken chili we’ve made before, not sure which one I like better.

Crockpot Chicken Chili Verde

Chicken enchiladas

Feb 15th, 2012
by ben.
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Enchiladas

Date: 2/15/2012

Recipe:

  • 3 cooked and shredded chicken breasts
  • 2 onions, diced
  • 2 green peppers, diced
  • 3 cans (15 oz) black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 T cumin
  • 1 T chili powder
  • 1 T garlic granules
  • 4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
  • ~20 tortillas, the tortillas we used were ~8 inches in diameter
  • 1 can enchilada sauce (28 oz) plus one extra can (14 oz)
Steps:
  1. Cook and shred the chicken
  2. While chicken is cooking, saute the onions and green peppers in oil or butter for a few minutes, adding the cumin, chili powder, and garlic granules for the last 30 seconds
  3. Move vegetables to large mixing bowl.
  4. Add all the black beans to the vegetables
  5. Shred the chicken and add to the black beans and vegetables
  6. Open the smaller can of enchilada sauce and add about half of it to the chicken mixture and stir to combine.
  7. Assemble the enchiladas using the following steps:
  • Spread a thin layer of enchilada sauce on the inside of a tortilla
  • Spoon about 1/4 cup or so of the chicken mixture into the tortilla, spread the mixture into a line
  • Sprinkle some shredded cheese on top of the chicken mixture
  • Wrap the tortilla up and add it to a 13 x 9 pan
  • Continue until you run out of tortillas or chicken mixture
  1. Now, with a full pan of enchiladas, pour the remaining enchilada sauce over the top
  2. Top with more shredded cheese
  3. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes

Time to table: 90 minutes

Servings: 7 dinners (21 enchiladas)

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: Like

Notes: We made these as part of our freezer meal stash for when the baby arrives and cooked three of them for our dinner tonight, with 18 leftover which we froze in sets of three so we can cook individual meals with them. Adding the cumin, chili powder, and garlic granules to the sauteed vegetables greatly contributed to these being better than I remember them, I don’t normally add any seasonings to the vegetables. We had these topped with sour cream and sriracha (for me) and they were delicious. Annie enjoyed eating the sour cream most of all.

Enchilada pack

Enchiladas

Sour cream cod and cheesy spinach rice

Dec 20th, 2011
by ben.
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Sour Cream Cod and Cheesy Spinach Rice

Date: 12/11/2011

Fish recipe: http://lizscookingblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/sour-cream-halibut.html

Rice recipe: http://ellysaysopa.com/2011/10/07/creamy-cheesy-garlicky-rice-with-spinach/

Time to table: 60 minutes

Modifications: We used cod instead of halibut from the recipe because the halibut was over twice the price of cod and we just don’t care that much.

Servings: 2 adults, with extra rice

Ben: LOVE

Erin: Loved the rice, liked the fish

Notes: Erin and I ate this after Annie went to bed as a stay-home-date-dinner :) Sure is easy to forget how laid back a meal can be without a toddler to prep, cajole, and clean up after at the same time. Seriously though, the fish was good, but the highlight of the meal for me was the rice. The recipe doesn’t lie when they say it tastes just like risotto without all the work, it was delicious.

Sour Cream Cod

White chicken chili

Nov 16th, 2011
by ben.
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White Chicken Chili

Date: 11/14/2011

Recipe: http://annies-eats.net/2008/09/25/white-bean-chicken-chili/

Time to table: 45 minutes

Modifications: I had some diced up bell pepper in the fridge that we added in with the onions, and and I also added a few cloves of garlic.

Servings: 4 adult meals, 1 toddler

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: Like

Notes: We made this for Annie’s 1st birthday party earlier this year and I’m SO glad that Erin reminded me of it, because it’s awesome. I was a little sad that there weren’t more leftovers, Erin and I both took it for lunch the next day and that was the end of it. Annie has not been eating well lately, so while I say “like”, take that with a grain of salt :) It really just means she ate something, as opposed to nothing at all. She had a few good bites and picked out a lot of the chicken and beans.

White Chicken Chili

Annie at dinner
This was probably right before she spilled this all over herself by messing around with the spoon and hitting her milk. Fun!

 

Potato leek soup

Oct 3rd, 2011
by ben.
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Potato Leek Soup

It doesn’t show well, but this was delicious!

Date: 9/26/2011

Recipe: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/ham_potato_and_leek_soup/

Time to table: 40 minutes

Modifications: We used the leeks, but had some other stuff to use up so I threw in celery, onion, and sour cream since we didn’t have any cream/half & half. We didn’t use ham because we didn’t have any and I knew it wouldn’t need it. We also didn’t use any of the fresh herbs, but just threw in some dried stuff we had.

Servings: 2 adult dinners, 2 adult lunches, 1 toddler dinner

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: Love

Notes: We used the immersion blender to blend the soup up, but we took some out for Annie before that as it’s easier for her to eat larger chunks. She surprised us and ate all of her serving and then we had no more to give her because it was all blended! This soup was awesome and I’m very much looking forward to making this and other soups this fall/winter.

Yummy potato leek soup

Yummy potato leek soup

Beans & veggies over rice

Aug 9th, 2011
by ben.
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Date: August  5th, 2011

Recipe:

  • 0.5 cans of refried black beans
  • 3 cloves garlic, diced
  • 0.5 of an onion, diced
  • 1 cup sweet potatoes, diced
  • handful of spinach
  • 0.5 cups shredded cheese
  • 0.5 cups water
  • 1 cup dried rice
  • seasonings to taste (I used red pepper, chili powder, garlic granules, and cumin)
  • sour cream to top with
Cook the rice according to directions. While the rice is cooking saute the sweet potato and onion. Add the garlic for another minute or so. Add the refried beans and water and mix it together well until the water has evaporated or mixed in. Turn off the heat and add in the cheese and spinach and continue stirring until the spinach has been mixed in and is wilted.
Spoon some rice into a bowl and top with the black bean mixture and then top with a dallop of sour cream.

Time to table: 30 minutes

Servings: 1 adult lunch, 2 toddler meals

Ben: Love

Annie: Love

Notes: This was one of the best lunches I ever made while working at home, I think it was the sour cream that put it over the top. I initially wanted to make a taco or quesadilla, but realized that we were out of tortillas, so the rice was a fallback, but this was DAMN good. Annie enjoyed it as well, in spite of the spinach that was hidden the the black beans. I’m going to make this again for dinner so Erin can tell me how awesome I am.

Grilled stuffed banana peppers

Aug 6th, 2011
by ben.
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Stuffed Banana Peppers

Date: August 3rd, 2011

Recipe:

  • 1 cup dry rice, cooked
  • 0.5 onion, diced
  • 3 cloves garlic, diced
  • 0.25 cups cilantro, chopped
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 cups shredded cheese
  • 1 T cumin
  • 1 t chili powder
  • 1 t paprika
  • 5 banana peppers sliced in half with the ribs and seeds removed
Cook the rice according to directions, towards the end of the rice cooking, saute the onions for a few minutes until translucent and add the garlic for an extra minute or so. Combine everything except the banana peppers in a mixing bowl.
Fill the banana pepper with the mixture and prepare the grill. Grill the peppers for 7-10 minutes, until they are charred on the bottom and soft.

Time to table: 40 minutes

Servings: 2 adults, 1 toddler

Ben: Like

Annie: Love (she only had the filling, not the peppers)

Notes: We got 5 banana peppers in our CSA box and this was a great way to use them, especially since Erin was not home for dinner. These were spicier than I thought they’d be, so it was a good decision to only have Annie eat the filling. Erin did have the filling the next day for dinner as some leftovers and thought it was good.

Annie eating rice

Stuffed Banana Peppers

Stuffed Banana Peppers

Stuffed Banana Peppers

Stuffed Banana Peppers

Grilled chicken with green bean casserole

Jul 27th, 2011
by ben.
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Green Bean Casserole

Date: July 26th, 2011

Green been recipe: http://realmomkitchen.com/534/green-bean-casserole/

Chicken marinade recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/lemon-garlic-marinade-for-chicken-331278

Modifications: I didn’t use the sumac in the marinade.

Time to table: 45 minutes (grilled the chicken while the casserole was baking)

Servings: 3 adults, 1 toddler

Ben: Like

Erin: Like

Annie: Dislike

Notes: I’m not a fan of green beans, so I was glad to find something that would use up all of them at once :) My sister came over with her two kids so we nearly ate all of the casserole, no help from Annie, who didn’t seem to like anything tonight.

I forgot to take ANY pictures so Erin hurriedly snapped one of the nearly gone casserole and of Annie “eating” so that will have to do this time.

Grace and Annie

Annie playing with her food while cousin Grace watches.

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