Showing posts with label whole foods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whole foods. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

hey, it's ok (tuesday) 10.16

hey, it's ok

...to look forward to your trips to whole foods. hello my happy place.
...to use your lunch hour to go buy soap at target. hey, sometimes it helps to just get out of the building.
...to be grateful for God's timing and divine appointments
...to light candles in the dining and living rooms when your husband is getting ready to have a houseful of guys over to play poker. like they cared.
...to be somewhat amused by the debates (and more than a somewhat annoyed at the facebook/twitter/even freaking pinterest feeds of one-sided responses).
...to not really understand the purpose of gender reveal parties. i mean, fun i suppose. but what's wrong with the good 'ol facebook or group text of "it's a boy!"? 
(if i ever have one, you have my permission to remind me of this post)
...to still not understand the tennessee licensing system. in indiana you got your driver's license and car license plates at the same place. it was even called the license branch. here you have to figure out which to do first if you're a new resident and then go to three different locations: emissions testing, county clerk and ...i still don't know what the place is called to get your driver's license. but you can also register to vote at one of those places. and one of those places you go to every four years and the other two yearly.
...to realize that your job is one part baby fever and one part birth control. snuggling a precious cooing 6 month old and then dealing with a full-blown 3 year old fit in the space of 20 minutes will make you one confused woman. 

please to visit amber and her wonderful blog :-) she hosts this fun link-up every week!

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Saturday, August 11, 2012

recipe of the week: southwestern style egg rolls

remember how i told you i split the ranch taco chicken meat between two recipes?

well, this is the other :-) i ran across this recipe on pinterest, but i knew we'd like a little different flavoring (and MEAT) in ours, so here's my adaptation.

southwestern egg rolls

olive oil for sauteing and brushing
1 pound chicken, cooked in crockpot with one tbsp ranch seasoning and one tbsp of taco seasoning
1 container egg roll wrappers
2 cups corn (i use fire-roasted from trader joe's)
1 can black beans
several handfuls of spinach (6 cups non-packed is 3 or 4 handfuls)
a generous bunch of cilantro
5 scallions, chopped
1 small container of sliced black olives
1 container of diced green chiles
1 container of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
2 cups cheese (i used the organic fiesta blend from whole foods)
you can add seasoning, but with the adobo sauce, seasoning on the meat, and cilantro i found we didn't really need any!

 heat oil on stove, and saute green onions, chiles and chipotle peppers for a few minutes




meanwhile, process spinach and cilantro in food processor until it's pretty fine. 


 combine corn, beans and greens in a bowl


 remove onion, chile and peppers from stove and process it with black olives


 add to the mixture, top with the shredded chicken and cheese and mix thoroughly




 put a large spoonful of the mixture in each wrapper and roll up (most packages have easy to follow instructions)





line them up on a baking sheet (i use parchment paper because of the messiness factor) and brush each side with olive oil


i made a batch of my ranch dressing and added one avocado to the mix. 



and it was so good!  definitely a recipe we'll keep around.

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