Since I'm nauseous all of the time thanks to night shift, I don't feel bad about fattening up when I do eat. Thus, fall's season of comfort food. Best-of and all-around crowd pleaser? White chicken chili. It's like you can't go wrong. Just put chicken, seasoning, and then all of the things you like into one big pot and pretty much just cook it on low until it's hot. Our sister-in-law Lyndsey turned me on to this, and it's grown since then. I like to put it in a dutch oven or crock pot a couple of hours before sean gets home. It's a good food to make your house smell good, which makes me feel a little Betty-Crocker-like. It's the little things...
Anyway, here's how I do it, but like I said, I like the idea that you can pretty much put what you want.
Ingredients, sans Lysol. The Chicken Chili kit is an essential short-cut.
Great Northern and Cannellini Beans
Put 2 cups of water and a can of diced tomatoes with the juice into a dutch oven
Add in spices in the kit, jalapeno, and chopped up boiled chicken
And put it over tortilla chips with shredded monterrey jack cheese with jalapeno
Huge hit in this house. And super easy. And of course it's easy to make a lot more and freeze it, which is something I can appreciate.
I'm not a huge football person, but I do like the Superbowl, mainly because I like potlucks and Superbowl parties have that element. Sean and I celebrated this occasion with 2 Superbowl parties in Charlotte and had a really good time, but here's the highlights:
1. Pull boiled chicken apart into little pieces (it's better pulled than chopper-ed)
2. Put about half Ranch and half Buffalo sauce into the bowl of chicken pieces
3. Keep pouring more, half and half, until there's a really good bit
4. Put about 2 1/2 blocks of Cream Cheese in a casserole dish and warm until softened
5. Spread Cream Cheese around the bottom and pour chicken mix on top
6. Put Cheddar Cheese to your liking on top
7. Heat for about 25 minutes at 350
Other highlights include an awesome white chocolate amaretto dip that another girl in our small group (Erin) made. She said it's from a package and I have no photo, but it was delicious. She also managed to roll her dip into a ball which I thought was impressive since I tried earlier in the day to do that with my chocolate chip cheese cake ball and ended up giving up and putting it in a bowl. As well as this commercial lesson from Bridgestone on Karma:
And of course that the Packers won. Sean tells me that's who we were pulling for. And the half-time show too. I thought it was really good.
