Monday, September 10, 2012

Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken Enchiladas

Ingredients:
1/2 bag frozen roasted corn from Trader Joes
1 lb. chicken tenderloins
12 oz. salsa, we love Jack's Cantina Medium from Costco
8 oz. cream cheese
Salt / pepper
Franks hot sauce
Tortilla land uncooked tortillas, or regular flour tortillas
Mexican Shredded cheese to top

Directions:
1.  Add corn, chicken, salsa, salt and pepper to slow cooker.  Cook on low 6 hours.  The last half hour add the cream cheese.
2. Preheat oven to 350.  Use chicken for filling in uncooked tortillas using a slotted spoon.  Wrap enchiladas and top with remaining sauce.  Top with shredded cheese.
3.  Cover with tin foil and cook 15 minutes.  Uncover and cook another 15.
4.  Serve with hot sauce.




Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Goat Cheese Zucchini Shrimp



This dish tastes very rich without all the heavy ingredients.  


Ingredients:

Linguine cooked according to package

1 lb shrimp

4 garlic cloves, minced

1 jar spaghetti sauce
¼ C extra virgin olive oil, divided into 2 TBS each
12 leaves fresh basil, chiffoned
3 Ounces goat cheese, crumbled
3 green zucchini, cut into thin slices
Juice of two lemons
1 c mushrooms
S & P (salt and pepper)


Procedure:
1. Marinate shrimp: In a small bowl, combine shrimp, juice of lemon, 2 TBS olive oil, a pinch S & P, red pepper flakes, and basil. Cover and refrigerate for 45 minutes
2. Cook linguine
3. Cook zucchini, mushrooms and garlic  in two tbsp. Evoo.  When soft add shrimp and cook 3 minutes
4. Heat spaghetti sauce
5.  On plates, add linguine top with spaghetti sauce.  Then top with zucchini / shrimp mixture.  Add goat cheese to taste.

Side note:  I made my dish low carb without the linguine, the zucchini was a good substitute since it was sliced so thin.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Frozen Grape Sangria

This white sangria recipe is perfect for summer. Also, the frozen grapes make the presentation really pretty. Enjoy!!! Ingredients 3 cups green grapes 1 Granny Smith apple, cored and chopped 1 lemon, sliced 1 cup grapes, sliced in 1/2 1/4 cup superfine sugar 2 bottles dry white wine, chilled (recommended: Pino Grigio) 1 cup white grape juice, chilled 1/2 cup vodka Directions Place 3 cups grapes in a freezer about 2 hours before you want to serve your sangria. Combine the chopped apples, lemon slices, grapes halves, wine, sugar, white grape juice, and vodka, in a large glass pitcher filled with ice. Stir well to dissolve the sugar. Add frozen green grapes to glasses and fill with sangria.fr