Normal week: Frozen pizza on Wednesdays because of school, homework, and church
Week of a Winter Slump: Frozen pizza at least three times, take out ordered, and budget sad.
So in honor of my own laziness I am going to feature some recipes you can either easily make, or make ahead, or (even better) both!
Last nights dinner was Chicken Quesadillas, taco rice, and delicious fudgy brownies. Like, the photos of the brownies are a little iffy because we ate them so fast...and they were super simple to make!
Chicken Quesadillas
Ingredients
12 flour tortillas
2 pounds of chicken
1 pack of taco seasoning
1 red,1 yellow,and 1 green pepper
1/2 yellow onion
shredded monterey jack or taco cheese
olive oil
Coat the bottom of your frying pan in olive oil
Put your chicken into the pan
Sprinkle salt, pepper, and 1/4 of the taco seasoning onto the chicken
Turn the chicken after a few minutes and season the other side
I turned my chicken four times, sprinkling it with taco seasoning every time
While your chicken is cooking dice up your peppers and onions
When the chicken is cooked through remove from the skillet and dump your veggies into the same skillet
While veggies are cooking cube up your chicken
Once veggies are cooked through (I cooked mine so they still had a little crunch, sometimes I nearly blacken them, just depends on what your family likes)
Get out a clean frying pan or griddle and grease it
Butter one side of your tortilla and put it in the pan
Build your quesadilla- cheese, chicken, veggies, more cheese, top with another tortilla and flip!
I would chop up my veggies whenever I happened to have ten minutes, put them in tupperwear and store them in the fridge. No more than four days in advance
I'd put my chicken in the crock pot in the morning with a little bit of water and about 3/4 of the seasoning
Then when I made the veggies I'd sprinkle the left over seasoning on them
This would cut your cooking time down to about fifteen- twenty minutes once you got home.
Fudgy Brownies
Ingredients
1/2 cup milk chocolate chocolate chips
1 stick of butter
1 cup of sugar
3 eggs
1 cup of flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
Melt the milk chocolate chips and butter (I used a mixing bowl on top of a pot of boiling water, poor man double broiler)
Beat sugar and eggs until creamed
Pour in chocolate mixture and combine well
Add flour, baking powder, and salt and mix well
Fold in your bittersweet chocolate
Pour into greased baking dish (I lined mine with parchment paper, or you could use tin foil so you can just pull the brownies out and it's easier clean up!)
Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, check with a tooth pick
The top will have a nice crunch to it