"Bon A Petiet"

For the next couple days, I will be sharing Julia Child quotes with you. She really has a great insight on the cooking world. I hope you enjoy the quotes!

"This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!"
— Julia Child (My Life in France)

¡Muy Bueno!

Dinner tonight was cooked by my wonderful mother.  She is such a great cook.  Then again—who does not argue that their mother is the best cook.  If you can not argue this, I am deeply sorry for you.  I hope that you will take on the task for her and be the best cook that you can be.  Cooking is fun!!

Anyways, my mother got this recipe for a chicken taco soup off of allrecipes.com.  I love that site.  Here was the recipe that she used to make my family dinner:

·         1 onion, chopped

·         1 (16 ounce) can chili beans

·         1 (15 ounce) can black beans

·         1 (15 ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained

·         1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce

·         1 (14.5 ounce) can Chicken broth

·         2 (10 ounce) cans diced tomatoes with green chilies, not drained

·         1 (1.25) package taco seasoning

·         3 whole skinless, boneless chicken breasts

·         shredded Cheddar cheese (optional—I highly suggest)

·         sour cream (optional—also a great addition)

·         crushed tortilla chips (optional—If you have them, use them=yummy)

Directions:

1.       Place the onion, chili beans, black beans, corn, tomato sauce, chicken broth, and diced tomatoes in a slow cooker.  Add taco seasoning, and stir to blend.  Lay chicken breasts on top of the mixture, pressing down slightly until just covered by the other ingredients.  Set slow cooker for low heat, cover, and cook for 5 hours.

2.       Remove chicken breasts from the soup, and allow to cool long enough to be handled.  Stir the shredded chicken back into the soup, and continue cooking for 2 hours.  Serve with optional toppings.

Like I said, this recipe was from allrescipes.com.  My mom altered it slightly.  You can add more or less.  It is your meal and you can do what you want.  Have fun creating some great food!

I hope that this recipe inspires you to go out and either cook something like it or this meal itself.  It was truly delicious. 

You can eat this and watch the March Madness games like us! Let’s give a WOOT! WOOT! for basketball!  Have a great weekend!

p.s. Thanks to my mom for this great meal!

It's Friday, Friday...gotta cook dinner on Friday!

Though I might not be as excited about it being Friday as Rebecca Black, the new YouTube sensation, I am pretty excited.  This has been a crazy week, and I am ready to settle things down a little. 

                Tonight I made a very yummy dinner.  It is a great quick dinner to make—chicken and spaghetti. 

    I boiled the water first and then put in the noodles.  I love noodles.  After the noodles were done in the boiling water, I took them out and put them in a strainer.  Strainers are cool things.  If you don’t have one, get one.  I have just the normal strainer, but the really cool ones are the lids that I have strainers built in them.  It’s the small things in life that can bring me joy.  While the spaghetti was cooking, I heated up some chicken.  It was the nice little “just heat up in the microwave” kind of chicken--great stuff for a quick Friday night dinner.  They both finished at about the same time.  I find it hard to get everything I make finished at the same time and hot.  Tonight was a success! Score! To finish it off, I put a piece of provolone on the chicken.  I love cheese.  I could eat cheese almost all the time.  My favorite is Colby jack, but I like plain cheddar a lot too.  That together with my noodles and spaghetti sauce I already had made a great meal. 

    Now I am off to spend the rest of my Friday night.  I am thinking a movie?! Maybe even some popcorn!

    I hope you have a great weekend and a great dinner!

Welcome!

Hi guys! My name is Beckie.  Not only do I love to eat food, but I also love to make food. I really just LOVE food.

Here is a list of some of my favorite foods:
almost any fruit (mainly strawberries, kiwi, oranges, apples, and pomegranates), most chicken (especially poppy seed chicken), Mexican (but I am not big on black beans), cornbread, Italian (mostly lasagna but I like the other stuff too), pizza (thick crust pepperoni is my favorite), dessert (especially brownies, cake, cupcakes, apple dump cake, chocolate moose, and pudding), yogurt, and lots of other food.  That is just the main stuff that came to mind right now.

Speaking of cupcakes, I made some from a new book I got last week.  
Here they are:      

These were my first ones.  They look pretty good, but I definitely have room for improvement. 

I hope that you love food as much as me.  Not just eating it, but I hope that you also enjoy making it.  I find so much satisfaction in a recipe well done. 

I hope you enjoy my blog as I learn different recipes, make new foods, and try new things.