3 cups shredded cooked chicken breasts
1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed
1 (14.5 ounce) can no-salt-added diced tomatoes, drained
2 green onions, sliced
1 (10 ounce) tub PHILADELPHIA Santa Fe Blend Cooking Creme, divided
3 (6 inch) flour tortillas
¾ cup KRAFT Mexican Style Finely Shredded Four Cheese, divided
i cooked up two boneless, skinless chicken breasts with my foreman grill while i stirred up the beans, tomatoes, onions, and a little of the cream — and i actually used cream cheese instead of “cooking creme.” i’m not sure i know what cooking creme is or if i’ve ever seen/noticed it. cream cheese seemed to work just fine.
i also only used two tortillas since (a) that’s how many i had left and (b) my pie pan was not big enough to hold any more.
Heat oven to 375° F.
Combine first 4 ingredients in large bowl. Add ¾ cup cooking creme; mix lightly.
Spoon ⅓ of the chicken mixture into 9-inch pie plate; top with 1 tortilla, half the remaining chicken mixture and ¼ cup shredded cheese. Cover with second tortilla, remaining chicken mixture, ¼ cup shredded cheese and remaining tortilla. Top with remaining cooking creme and shredded cheese; cover.
Bake 20 min. or until heated through; uncover. Bake 5 min. or until cheese is melted.
i sprinkled a little bit of chili powder over the top before baking, too, just because i thought it would probably need a tiny kick. it was quite tasty! and so easy. i feel like these ingredients are items i usually have around my kitchen. i will be making this one again!
because i’m terrible at keeping up, i am now, almost three weeks later, going to share the photos and videos i took with my iphone at this year’s saintly city cat show. MEOW!
my favorite judge, walter hutzler, was back again this year. maybe you want to watch a video that includes him? my friend, mary — who attended the cat show for the first time this year — shared this video with me. so great!
persian so fluffy she be lookin’ like a sausage.
i think the most common breeds at the show are usually rex kitties and persian kitties. total opposites, right?
honestly, i left my dslr at home this year because i thought i probably didn’t need to come home for the fourth year in a row with 200+ photos of cats that aren’t mine. there are oodles of kitties that i wanted to photograph (such as an american curl! i’ve never seen that breed before.) but i’m glad i had the iphone because it takes excellent video — which came in handy when the vulcans showed up!
first, vulcanus rex knighted the prince of replacement (cat show) judges.
then he knighted the people’s choice award winning kitty, an egyptian mau named mica. the most adorable moment happens at about 1:52.
i love hanging out with other crazy cat people. and cats. in fact, little miss sio kitty is taking up most of my lap right now — every night she tries to separate me from the computer but my arms are long and i can still reach the keyboard!
i’ve had my eye on this pattern from the purl bee for quite some time — i’m so delighted that i was finally able to use it! it served as my reintroduction to the sewing world, forcing me to find my only embroidery hoop and to ensure that my sewing machine was in good working condition.
i can still sew a straight line: hooray!
purl bee instructions read:
To make sure the pillows corners are neat you will want to sew a curve instead of a right angle. Mark this curve by using a juice glass as instructed below.
a wine glass works just as well, i’ve found. (maybe even better at times.)
everything i learned in home ec. class came flooding back with that familiar sewing machine hum. it feels so good to craft!
the finished pillow cases! they make me happy and there’s another bonus: an item on my 101 goals in 1001 days list is complete.
can’t wait to get to sewing some quilt blocks — i am currently in the process of cutting many squares. i am nervous about cutting up all of my lovely fabrics (worried i’ll do something wrong) but also really excited to finally be making some progress! i hope i can get a lot more cutting done this weekend, so i can start laying everything out by sunday night. (i’ll just have to find a good, cat-free zone for this…)
i received a wise reminder from my friend, bertine: “measure twice!” (so far, so good!)
i’ve been following along with jenni’s monthly updates on completing a list of 101 goals to complete in 1001 days, which has finally motivated me to begin my own.
yesterday i kicked off my own 101 in 1001 list by having lunch at the melting pot with my sister — #12: Visit 20 new-to-me restaurants in the Twin Cities.
the motivation behind going for lunch was actually because jason had purchased one of those online coupon things and it was going to expire before he could find time to use it. so… thanks, sweetie!
though we didn’t anticipate it being a two hour visit, it was a fun lunch! the booths are wide and tall, so it felt very much like we were dining privately. the food was all delicious, too!
i currently have 61 items on my list that should have 101 items. i’ve been trying to brainstorm, but i’m sure more ideas of things to get done will come along. do you have any suggestions? i think i could probably add some goals related to my professional life, fill out of the list of goals for home, and add some more twin city to do’s easily enough. what am i missing?
Brenda from The A to B of Cooking came over the other night, when I had no idea what to make for dinner. She proposed trading her cooking for my photography… um, yeah, of course I’ll take that trade!
Lucky for her, it’s pretty rare that I feel like making dinner — but I’m always up for taking photos.
