Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Chicken and Black Bean 'Dillas

As I said before... Here's the recipe for these yummy quesadillas!

2 large chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
1/2 onion, diced
1 green bell pepper (and red, yellow, orange if you want) diced
1 can of black beans, drained and rinsed
1 small can of green (or red) enchilada sauce
1/4 Cup of Sour Cream
Garlic and parsley seasoning, salt free, to taste
Chili Powder to taste
Shredded Cheese (any good melting cheese of preference)
Soft Taco or Gordita size Tortillas (flour, spinach, tomato, whole grain what ever your pleasure!)

In a large pan over medium-high heat, spray pan with cooking spray and saute the onions and peppers until soft. Add drained and rinsed Black beans. Reduce heat to Medium. Add Garlic/Parsley and Chili Powder seasoning and cook 3-5 minutes. Add Chicken and 1/4 - 1/3 cup of enchilada sauce. Reduce heat to Low-Medium  and add sour cream. Mix Well. If this is too thick you can add water to desired consistency.

Remove From heat.

In smaller skillet over medium heat, spray with cooking oil. Sprinkle 2 Tbsp of shredded cheese on 1/2 tortilla. Spoon chicken filling over cheese (approx 1/4 cup). Fold tortilla over and place in skillet and heat until crispy and light brown flipping once. Approx 1-2 min on each side. Remove from skillet and let set.
Cut into wedges.

You can dip these in guacamole, sour cream, salsa or eat them as they are.

Variation: in a 3 inch deep round baking dish, spray lightly with cooking spray and layer corn tortillas, chicken mixture and shredded cheese and additional enchilada sauce until you've reached the top,.
Top off with enchilada sauce and shredded cheese and bake at 350 for 15-20 min or until cheese is melted and bubbly.

Enjoy!


Thursday, February 18, 2010

Exhilarate, Galvanize, Infuse, Spark...

Yes. I am inspired today. I came across a blog of an aspiring pastry artist like myself and was hooked most of my morning hours. Reading through her experiences and her declaration to stop her current career and pursue her love of food by attending pastry arts school was amazing. I am in admiration. She now has a shop overseas in her home country and seems to be thriving! She's living my dream!

I want so bad to be there already but am even more excited about the process I will go through to get there!
Reading through her entries as she went through school, each week, I imagine myself in that place, learning, baking, indulging!

In the meantime....

I plan.

I'm finding it difficult to work on these scholarship applications. I have been out of the school loop for so long and have dedicated my life to my kids that I'm at a loss for answering some of these questions. Volunteer? Community service, organizations and sports I'm involved in? *laughing* When do I have time for that with 3 boys? So I sit, and stare at the questions taunting me, and I think "Is this what every pastry chef gets involved in?" I ponder what to say. What sounds convincing? Do they really care about my volunteer work over 10 years ago?!? Maybe.

and so....

I continue to rack my brain. Feeling less than proficient due to my lack of activism in my community. I don't feel defeated. I will, I'm sure , find a way through my creative writing to satisfactorily answer these many questions.

In the end, I just want to be a Pastry Artist. Décorateur. L'Art de la Patisserie.