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Recipes with chicken

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Mexican Layer Casserole

March 6, 2010

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Mexican Layer Casserole

Mexican Layer Casserole is comfort food to me. It’s flavorful and filling and comes together quickly, even though the ingredient list looks long. The chiles in adobo sauce, with their spicy smokiness, really punch up the flavor in the casserole.

Soul Food: Mediterranean Chicken with Roasted Fennel

February 25, 2010

Soul Food: Mediterranean Chicken with Roasted Fennel

My boyfriend loves his poultry, so I indulge him with dishes like this Mediterranean Chicken. The briny olives here add a nice kick to the mellow sweetness of the roasted fennel. Cherry tomatoes seem like such an indulgence this time of year, but they get roasted in this dish, which brings out their flavor, so I succumbed.

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Hippie Salad with Chicken

August 3, 2009

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Hippie Salad with Chicken

No, there aren’t two kinds of meat in this salad! Hippie meat tends to be a bit gamey for my taste, yuk yuk yuk. I call this Hippie Salad because it contains two grains that hippies love: bulgur and quinoa.

Quick and Cheap Dinner: Oh Crap, I Forgot the Veggies

May 26, 2009

Tonight I got home ready to make a meal I’d been thinking about all day, when I realized that I left the veggies at work. I thought about what I could throw together that incorporates the two things I wanted to get out of dinner, namely vitamins and fiber. Legumes to the rescue!