Cheesy Broccoli Potatoes

Yumm! I decided to make this as a side dish to go with chicken fajitas (see previous post). WAAAAY too easy to make and is microwaved in only 4 minutes! I mean, common. Look at that ingredient list and you'll realize how easy this is

The Recipe:
potato
broccoli
cheese sauce

1. Clean potato

2. Make a slice (I kind of just cut out a apple slice style of a chunk)

3. I place the potato in a microwavable bowl (so that I didn't loose broccoli or cheese)

4. Top with pieces of broccoli

5. (this is where it depends on your cheese sauce) You can either make the cheese sauce on the stove top like I did or you can totally just put cheese straight on the potato

6. Microwave potato for 4 minutes on high (if stove top cheese sauce, put cheese sauce AFTER you cook the potato and broccoli)

7. Serve and enjoy


My Experience:
So like I mentioned in the recipe part, I just made a stove top cheese sauce (like that powder crap you add water to). The actually recipe in the Campbell's Cookbook says to use cream of cheese soup? But I totally couldn't find it in the grocery store so improvised.

This side dish is super easy. Just popped it in the microwave while I was preparing the main course. Will totally be making these potatoes again but next time I will try to make the cheese sauce with real cheese melted with milk. We'll see how that turns out!

The Ratings:
Joelle's rating: 8.7/10 (yea I know, she's random)
My rating: 8.5/10

Chicken Fajitas

Joelle and I finally had our first meal together in our new apartment. For the occasion I made chicken fajitas and cheese & broccoli potatoes (see next post for potatoes). We (by we, I mean Joelle) even lit candles for "ambiance". Lol.

These are super easy to make but I didn't make them like I usually do due to lack of ingredients... just lettuce really but oh well.

The Recipe:
skinless boneless chicken breast (I usually do half a breast per person but it depends on level of hunger and appetite)
onion
salsa
sour cream
cheese
lettuce
fajitas tortillas

1. Cut chicken into strips or small chunks and cook in a frying pan with a bit of olive oil


2. (while chicken is cooking...) Finely chop onions (and if you're like Joelle, you might definitely cry)

3. Chop lettuce (I usually try to make it look like McDonald's lettuce because that's how I like it but it really doesn't matter)

4. Once chicken is cooked, add onions and salsa. Turn down heat and allow to simmer

5. (while chicken mixture is simmering) Grate cheese

6. Warm up tortillas by placing over chicken mixture for about a minute and a half

7. Place tortillas on plate, add chicken mixture (in a straight line down the middle and put as much as you like)


8. Top fajitas as you like with cheese, sour cream, lettuce and more salsa


9. Roll and enjoy


My Experiences:
I make fajitas quite often actually. You make them really to your own taste. You can add green peppers, for example, to the chicken mixture (I, however, do not particularly like green peppers). You'll figure out what you like and don't like by trying it. Sometime in the near future I'll make a different kind of fajitas that I really enjoy and you can try those too (because of course I'll be blogging about it)!

Other than that they are fairly fool proof as long as you don't over cook the chicken or add things (or too much of others) that you don't like. I always suggest to have the eaters top their own fajitas (for example, Joelle doesn't like sour cream but I love it). Then that way everyone is happy :)

The Ratings:
Joelle's rating: 9/10
My rating: 7/10 (I know I prefer it with lettuce and have made better... next time though!)

Beef Taco Skillet

Alannah is finally home from India. Her request for dinner: meat and cheese (but absolutely no rice). My choice: the beef taco skillet

The Recipe:

1 pound ground beef
1 can Campbell's condensed tomato soup
1/2 cup salsa
1/2 cup water
6 flour tortillas (6-inch), cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1. Cook the beef in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until it's well browned, stirring often to separate meat. Pour off any fat.


2. Stir the soup, salsa, water, and tortillas in the skillet and heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cook for 5 minutes. Stir the beef mixture. Top with cheese.



Makes 4 servings
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes

from Campbell's Recipe Collection

My Experiences:
So we had no can opener. Oops. So instead of the soup and water, I used tomato juice. Did the job. VERY easy to make (Hamburger Helper easy).

Alannah and I enjoyed our meal :)

The Ratings:
Alannah's rating: 8.5/10
My rating: 8/10