Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Something a little different......

I decided that just talking about how much I hate various companies could get a little boring after a while. For this reason, I am going to switch things up a little and make you think a bit. I am even going to throw in a tasty recipe at the end. You know why? Because I can! When you get your own blog, you can do whatever the hell you want. Today, you're getting my secret to tasty cheesy chicken enchiladas. Deal with it.

Anyway, here's what I wanted to discuss. I have a feeling that this is really going to divide people. You're either going to know exactly what I am talking about, or think I am ready for some sort of mental institution. I sense there's really no in-between here.

Have you ever looked at something a million times and then noticed something that never stood out before? This happened to me a couple of times in the last week. For instance, I just realized last night that my kitchen has a big four foot fluorescent fixture on the ceiling. Now, I have lived in my apartment for nearly two years. And yet, I never took the time to stop and look up. I just flipped on the switch, and went about my business. I have been under that light 10,000 times, but I never could have described it to you. The same thing happens when I drive. I take the same way to work everyday, but every once and a while I will notice a house that never seemed to be there before. Its like that creepy quote from "Red Dragon." I was looking, but I did not see.

So that's your homework for the rest of the week. Take a few moments to stop and see the things that you might have been missing all this time.

Ok, and just so that you don't feel like you waited an extra day for nothing here is my previously top secret recipe for my chicken enchiladas. I have tested these on many people, and they have had excellent reviews. Plus, they are very easy to make and relatively healthy.

Ingredients:
1.5 cups shredded cooked chicken breast (about 2 breasts)
1 cup bottled picante sauce or salsa
1 cup shredded cheese (I like mozzarella)
3 oz low fat cream cheese (this happens to be the size of one of those tiny cream cheese bricks)
1 tsp chili powder
8 flour tortillas
1.5 cups bottled green taco sauce (more on this in a moment)

Directions:
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
  2. Use a large, non-stick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium heat.
  3. Add the chicken, 1/2 cup of the cheese, the salsa, cream cheese, and chili powder.
  4. Cook for 3 minutes or until the cheese melts.
  5. Spoon about 1/3 cup of the chicken mixture down the center of each tortilla and roll up.
  6. Place the enchiladas in a baking dish and drizzle the taco sauce over top of them.
  7. Then sprinkle the remaining cheese on top of everything.
  8. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until the cheese melts.
  9. Serve enchiladas immediately.
  10. Enjoy!
* Here's a note on the green taco sauce. It's really called green taco sauce. You should be able to find it at your local supermarket in the ethnic foods section.

Till next time

~Kevin

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

That looks like a recipe for some tasty enchiladas.

My only cooking tip is get a cast iron pan.

Now you are giving us homework? What is that about? I'd advise the chad to look down. He might find something new if he looks close enough.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, wes's lips on my balls.

Kevin said...

In the immortal words of Ron Burgandy....Wow, that escalated quickly!

Kevin said...

A cast iron pan? Are we cooking in the woods or something. I need the rationale behind this. Why not just a regular non-stick plan? You don't have a beef with the DuPont people do you?

Anonymous said...

To support wes, a cast iron skillet does wonders. Alton Brown did an entire episode on it.

Anonymous said...

Cast iron is great for searing meat. You can make some great steaks by getting the pan really hot and throwing some thin steaks on. Just watch out for the smoke. I use mine to sear a roast before I throw it in the crock pot.

Like Chad said, look for the episode of good eats that was about the magic of the cast iron pan.

I saw something I never noticed before, and most normal people would never notice this. As I was driving to work, I realized that a pole near my apartment has a lightning arrestor mounted up on the crossarm between two phase wires. This is not standard, as we typically put it on the pole near the transformer. I've been driving past it for the past year and a half and this is the first time I saw it.

I'm going to try your recipe soon Kev. I just need to get to the store.

P.S. Chad: Only if they are shaved.

Anonymous said...

OK, after tonight I advocate a mandatory driving test (behind the wheel) every year for everyone, and if you don't like it you face execution for not having a license.

I walked out of my apartment to see a sweet old lady who had managed to drive her car in a place where there is no driveway, and only piles of snow. She was confused because it is so fucking difficult to see large piles of snow. So me, after drinking 37 beers on the chad scale, dug her sorry ass out and drove the car free. Guess what...tomorrow she will be back out on the roads. Thus the need for annual testing, with the penalty of execution for driving with no license.

How the hell do you think driving through a snow bank is the right thing to do? DIE DIE DIE. YOU SUCK AT LIFE!

Kevin said...

Umm....I think execution is a little stiff as far as penalties go. She didn't happen to have a hump, did she?

Anonymous said...

Kev, if the penalty was execution, would you drive without a license?

And sadly, there was no hump so I had no place to set my beer.

Anonymous said...

I am all for the executions!!! Is there any way we can hide some other useful tools in that legislation...Like English as the official language or AIDS infested pitbulls on the Texas side of the fence!!!

Anonymous said...

CWG: I'm with you on that. I hadn't thought of the pitbulls before.

I just have to say one thing about green taco sauce. The more I think of it, the more I am reminded of Clorox Girl. It just seems like something she would be dripping.

Anonymous said...

CLOROX GIRL...now there's a nasty thought that hasn't entered my mind in a while.

Also, do any of you get the Penn Stater. If so, read the article about the current leadership of our beloved Sig Ep. The evolved from the cock piercing(McCrone), giving each other handjobs(Magrino..I made this one up), arrogant assholes(Dave Ritz) who we knew in college to an even worse set of fags who now card at the door and make a few brothers remain sober to "keep the peace" at parties.

Anonymous said...

Cwg, you didn't make it up. Marino gives handjobs. I have pics.

Anyways, what kind of self respecting frat fag is going to be the douche who is carding and staying sober? Oh wait, I forgot, they are all fags in a fraternity. Seriously, who pays money to take group showers? thats right...the same fage who are in a fraternity.

I challenge anyone out there to prove to me that a fraternity is nothing more than some douche paying for friendship in a grossly homosexual environment.

Kevin said...

I have a feeling that Brad ended up like Neidermeyer and was killed by his own troops.

Oh, and let me bring others up to speed on "Clorox Girl". A guy who we knew our freshman year (definately not a friend, just someone we knew) engaged in sexual activity with a girl of questionable cleanliness. As I understand it, he did so without using appropriate protection. As a safeguard against disease, he later doused his member in clorox to kill any outstanding bacteria. I firmly believe this is why Sproul Hall: The College Years TV show never took off.

Anonymous said...

Something a little different...
actually post something on Monday douche bag.

Kevin said...

DWB, if you read this before Thursday afternoon make sure you fill out your NCAA brackets for the Dunmore pool.