utenzi

This is what last night's dinner ended up looking like. Here's the pan right after I pulled it out of the oven. I ate dinner while watching Top Chef and then Work of Art: The Next Great Artist , both on Bravo. I really like the art show. It's refreshing to see their talent displayed in contrast to the nastiness that so often dominates reality shows. That said, some of the artists are inflexible---and the worst of that ilk got bumped off the show this week. Awww. :-D An interesting difference in the two shows is that while they've both just started (I think Artist has been on one week longer) I've got a much better feel for the contestants on Artist than on Top Chef. I wonder if that's just me or if the personality types or show format are the cause. This is the first serving I had. I ended up having a second one before I was through. I jumped the sauce from mild to medium heat and it tastes better this way. My changing the cheese from Jack to a blend of Italian...

I didn't get started on dinner until almost 9pm so I wanted to fix something fast. If I was smart I'd have just made some cheese and crackers and munched on them while watching tv but instead I went Mexican. But very easy Mexican. I used the recipe on All Recipes that I mentioned last week to make Green Chicken Enchiladas. Yum. First I sauteed some chicken, then I layered the chicken and cheese on some flour wraps. Rolled them up and put them in a pan. Poured green chile sauce over them and baked in an over for 30 minutes. That's as far as I've gotten so far but I hope to be eating in another 15 minutes or so. :-) I changed the cheese from Monterrey Jack to an Italian blend. I hope that doesn't end up tasting funny. :-(

It's a mite steamy out there today. The temp is 92 at 2pm with high humidity and it's supposed to reach 97 today. And thunderstorms in the late afternoon. When the rain hits the pavement it's just gonna turn into steam. *whew* Over there on the left you see a couple of pictures from the NC Zoo from last week. Bison this time. That fellow looks rather moth-eaten. The second picture is of some of his friends. Also rather moth-eaten. And dusty too. Change of topic---last night Cry invited me over to her place for dinner. She saw a Mexican recipe on the All Recipes website that she wanted to try out. The recipe is called Green Chicken Enchilada and it's made using shredded boneless chicken breasts and shredded Monterey Jack cheese wrapped up in flour tortillas with green enchilada sauce covering the bundles as they bake. Very simple and quite good. We were both impressed with how tasty they were especially considering how easy it was to make them. Some Mexican rice on th...