| My Favorite Recipes |
| Southwestern Chicken Fajitas (credit goes to my mother who originally created this recipe which I have since bastardized!) Recipe serves about 4 Things you'll need: 4 peppers...I prefer to mix colors, red, yellow, orange and I don't like green. 2 onions (you can add other veggies to add additional mass- mushrooms, zucchini, be creative) 12 oz chicken breast cumin red pepper one bunch of cilantro 4-5 cloves garlic 5 limes Pam Start by rolling the limes back and forth to get the juices flowing. Cut them in half and juice them in to a bowl large enough to marinate the chicken. Leave juice of one line aside. Then chop up all of the garlic and add to bowl, leaving about a teaspoon aside. Sprinke about a tablespoon (really this is to taste, but star here) of cumin in and then about a half teaspoon of red pepper (more if you want it hot) in to the bowl. Slice up the chicken breast, add to the bowl. Use your hands and toss the chicken, massaging the marinade into it. Put on saranwarp and put in fridge while you prepare the rest of the dish. Slice up the peppers and set aside, Slice the onions, set aside. Put a good shot of Pam in a nonstick pan and add to it the set aside garlic. Slightly cook the garlic until it starts to become lucid. Then add the peppers. Let them cook for a few minutes, then add the onions. Let them all cook for a few minutes and then pour on the rest of the lime juice. At this point I add cumin and red pepper, because I like to over season this dish for maximum flavor. I do it until it smells good. Try this after you've cooked the dish one time. While the onions and peppers are still crunchy, but starting to soften, add the chicken and the marinade it's been sitting in. Toss around until it's cooked. When the chicken is about half way cooked, toss in about a ahndful of cilantro. Try to time it so the veggies retain a little stiffness, soggy veggies are not very tasty. Put in a bowl and eat up! I like to eat these with one 8"inch tortilla and a tablespoon of lowfat sour cream. You can totally skip the cheese, since it's so flavorful. My mom like to eat them with black beans. Because the only thing in it with any points is the chicken, after your tortilla portion, you can eat all of the veggies you want with NO POINTS! This also works great the next day for leftovers, the flavors get more intense! For dinner parties you could serve with the sweet corn and shrimp cakes recipe from the 7/9/02 ww email. I'll put my version of that recipe up soon. To complete the meal, put on a favorite latin CD while you are cooking and eating (I like to cook this to Ottmar Leibert) |
| If you like what you see, please let me know on Wednesday! Also, if you have any interest, I will be happy to provide the following services...Cooking lessons, precooked and delivered meals and home chef services (hey, I am out of a job and love to cook!) Just grab me on Wednesday and we can talk. |
| Veggie Wraps-simple, filling and as always, low in points makes 2-3 wraps. 1 red pepper 1 yellow pepper 1 zucchini 1 eggplant 1 onion 1 yellow squash a handful of asparagus (Choose your favorite veggies!) garlic salt PAM Goat cheese (or hummus or tziki sauce) 2 pieces of lavash bread or pita or tortilla (great low points lavash at Trader Joe's) Wash all veggies. Slice peppers into quarters, lay flat on broiler tray and spray lightly with PAM.. Do skin side up first, roast until skin turns black and bubbly. Flip over and spray again, sprinkle with garlic salt. Roast until peppers are cooked. remove from oven, put in brown paper bag to cool. Slice zucchini the long way into 1/8 inch strips, same with eggplant and yellow squash. Lay out on roasting pan, spray with PAM, sprinkle with garlic salt, roast until soft, flip and repeat. Cut up onions and do the same. Also the asparagus (these cook very quickly!) smear the cheese/hummus/sauce on the bread layer in all the veggies you want (while they are still warm so the juices come together) and roll up. points will depend on your quantity of cheese/hummus etc and the bread you choose. I like 3/4 ounce of goat cheese in half of a TJ's lavash. I can do it for under 4 points and it is VERY filling. Sometimes I add tofu or chicken for more protein depending on available points. |