Pin-tastic Monday! tortilla soup

Linking up with AP again today for Hey, That's Pin-tastic!

This week I made a pinterest recipe for tortilla soup.

It was pretty good! Hubby LOVED it! He even said it could be added to the meal rotation! That's huge! So yeah! Win for pinterest!

It is a slow cooker recipe which I love! I cooked it on high for 4 hours and it turned out great. Just make sure you plan enough time for chopping. Like 30 mins or so.

  I used two thawed chicken breasts. I don't think I used 5 cups of chicken stock. We bought a mild green pepper not a bell pepper.

We used Santa Fe seasonsed tortilla strips. So yummy!! Let me know if you try it!

I need recipe ideas!

Hubby is a meat and potatoes guy. But we also like to eat healthy. After much debate we had our chicken, brown rice, broccoli, and carrot(he is the only one that eats those) meal tonight. He said it doesn't fill him up. I love it because it is healthy and is great to put the leftovers in a bowl and take to work for lunch. Do you guys have any recipes that would fill him up, are healthy, and make great reheated leftover lunches?

favorite recipes

I'm participating in Top 2 Tuesday!

In my opinion we eat really good over here at casa de Megs7827. But Hubby and I are also picky/boring eaters. We also have topic secret recipes. Hubby uses my Nana's recipe to make the best cookies on the planet! People regularly beg us for the recipe. I posted on facebook last night "who likes Hubby's cookies?" And these are the responses I got: "U KNOW WE DOO", "They are the best cookies in the world!", and "I do! I do!! I do!!! I do!!!! I do!!!!! I do!!!!!! I do!!!!!!! Can The Big Guy take a hint?". Our neighbor asked if he put concentrated orgasms in them.





It was so hard to pick our two favorite recipes. I was yelling from the other room, "If you had to eat two recipes the rest of your life what would they be." But he couldn't pick. We love to marinate chicken or steak and bbq it. Costco has the best chicken, flank steak, and tri tip. We use the Yoshida's marinade they sell there. Hubby loves their shrimp prawns for bbq or pasta. We are going to start eating more salmon from Costco as well. He broilers it in lemon and spices or bbqs it in aluminum foil. We love our taco Thursday. He make the white corn tortillas by putting them in a pan of evoo to get them kinda crispy. We cook the chicken in Lawry's chicken taco seasoning. We use Knorr's Spanish rice. He puts beans. Costco mexican cheese, sour cream. Sometimes I do lettuce and red onions or green onions. Yumm! He also makes calzones from pillsbury's pizza dough. Some marinara, cheese, pepperoni, folds it over and cooks each side for 10 mins then 5 mins. Those are just some ideas you can play around with. Here are some recipes that you can follow the steps on:





I like the first recipe because it has all your food groups, is cooked in one pan, is quick, and healthy!





Chicken and Rice with Vegetables


You will need:


1 tbsp. oil


1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips


3 cups cut up vegetables (we do broccoli and carrots)


14 1/2 ox can chicken broth


1 cup minute brown rice


1 cup minute white rice


Italian dressing (this is a kraft recipe so that what they recommend, we use Olive Garden's)





Heat the oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Add chicken. Add vegetables after chicken looks pretty close to cooked. Cook and stir for 3 to 5 mins. Stir in broth. Bring to a boil. Add brown rice and dressing. Cover and cook 5 mins. Add white rice and water if needed. Cover and cook 5 mins. Check to make sure rice is cooked. Serve!





Hubby and I love PF Changs lettuce cups. So I was excited when I found this recipe because it sounded yummy and easy. Which it is!





Caesar Lettuce Cups


You will need:


1lb chicken


salt and pepper


2 cloves garlic minced


1tsp Worcestershire sauce


1/2 cup Parmesan cheese


iceberg lettuce





Cook chicken in frying pan. Season with salt and pepper. Add garlic, then Worcestershire sauce and cheese. Separate cups of lettuce. Scoop mixture into leaf. Optional add croutons or red onion. Serve!