Chicken Marbella

Chicken Marbella

Click on the photo above for the recipe for this sweet and sour and savory dish. Great meal to serve at your next dinner party!

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Chicken Chilaquiles

Here's a great Southwestern chicken casserole. What makes this sooooo easy is using store bought rotisserie chicken. This is a little spicy. If you would like it even spicier, add 1/4 tsp ground red pepper to tomatillo mixture. To lessen the spice, use Monterey Jack cheese without jalapeno peppers. Either way you like it, this is sure to please the pallet!!!

Ingredients:

2 cups shredded skinless, boneless rotisserie chicken breast

1/2 cup chopped green onions

1/2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeno peppers, divided

2 TBS grated Parmesan cheese

1 tsp chili powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp black pepper

3/4 cup 1% low-fat milk

1/4 cup fresh cilantro

1 (11 oz) can tomatillos, drained

1 (4.5 oz) can chopped green chiles, drained

12 (6 inch) corn tortillas

Cooking spray

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Combine chicken, green onions, 1/4 cup Monterey Jack cheese, Parmesan, chili powder, salt and pepper in a medium bowl.

Place milk and next 3 ingredients (through chiles) in a food processor or blender. Process until smooth.

Heat tortillas according to package directions. Pour 1/3 cup tomatillo mixture into bottom of 11 x 7 inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Arrange 4 tortillas in dish and top with half of chicken mixture. Repeat layer with remaining tortillas and chicken mixture, ending with tortillas.

Pour remaining tomatillo mixture over tortillas. Sprinkle with remainingg 1/4 cup Monterey Jack cheese.

Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or until bubbly.

Serves 4.

Nutritional Information:

Calories 347

Calories from fat 28%

Sat Fat 4.5 g

Monofat 2.9 g

Polyfat 2.9 g

Protein 30.9 g

Carbohydrate 33.3 g

Fiber 5.9 g

Cholesterol 79 mg

Iron 1.5 mg

Sodium 560 mg

Calcium 272 mg

Recipe and Nutritional Information taken from www.cookinglight.com.

Needles-n-Pins Stitcheries: Picnic Recipes

Last week we got all our supplies for our picnic so now we need to get the food ready so this week I thought I would share picnic recipe with you and when I thought about a good place to get recipes for this I thought of.......yep, your right.......Pinterest!

So here are a few recipes for your picnic.....



First, what is one of the most eaten foods at a picnic....chicken! And this Crispy Picnic Chicken from Taste Of Home looks pretty simple to make and I am all about easy and simple. :)

From Taste Of Home

Next of course you need to have potato salad and Mother Thyme has this great recipe. I have a good potato salad recipe also and I will be sharing that with you in the next few weeks so stay tuned. In the meantime you can check this recipe out. 

And of course we need to have something to wash down all this food so how about strawberry lemonade from The Frugal Girls. This will hit the spot. :)

Now we need to top the picnic off with dessert and the number one dessert at a picnic is of course.............watermelon! Look at this great idea of how to serve watermelon. The kids would get a kick out of doing this! 

Now if you want to do a little something special with your picnic for the kids how about this idea I found at Hotel F&B. What a neat idea! Now if I had a beach to go to and the grandkids around maybe we could do this, but up north here picnicking on the beach is not an option as it is wayyyyyyyyyyy to cold even in the summer. :)

So since July is only half over there is still plenty of time to do picnics so get those picnic baskets out and filled with food and head out to wherever you want to go to have a picnic.

Happy Eating!

Colleen :)

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