Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Chicken Fajita Soup


This is a great soup for a cold night. It's loaded with southwestern veggies, and with just a bit of prep it's cooking on the stove! Feel free to add/swap for what you like or have on hand to customize it even more.

Ingredients:

2 bell peppers, diced
1 onion, diced
1 large chicken breast, diced
1 can black beans, drained
1 can fire roasted tomatoes
3c chicken broth
1c frozen corn
Vegetable oil
1 jalapeño (optional)

Seasonings:
1tbs chili powder
1/2tbs garlic powder
2tsp cumin
1tsp coriander
S/p


In a large pot over med high heat start your oil heating up then add the chicken and seasonings. Stir to coat and cook evenly for 7-10min.

Add onion and peppers and cook 5 more min.

Add beans, tomatoes, and broth and bring to gentle boil then reduce heat to simmer. While this is simmering you can roast the corn in a small skillet 10-15min until it starts to brown.



While this was cooking, I also decided to cut a couple tortillas into strips and coat with oil and the same seasonings as the chicken. I roasted these at 425 for about 10-12min till crunchy.


Once the corn is roasted you add it to the soup and taste to make sure it's seasoned just right. Serve and be creative with your toppings! I did avocado, cheese, and sour cream plus my tortilla strips. Yum!




Monday, November 15, 2021

Halloween 2021

Only 2 weeks late! We had a fun holiday as usual; full of candy, pumpkins, and general shenanigans. A few days before Halloween Nick helped the boys carve their pumpkins for the porch. They turned out great!




I gave the boys some leeway on choosing what costumes they wanted...Brad chose to be a glow stick figure! This involved getting a "shadow" bodysuit which he enjoyed wearing around...


Jacob wanted to be the red character from Among Us (some sort of space suit thing?) so I just needed to get him a helmet and some red clothes. I also made him a backpack for it to complete the ensemble, but he did not wear it to this first event...

...which was a trunk or treat at a neighboring town! 





They enjoyed their bounty afterwards.


For Halloween night the weather held out thankfully! Brad's friend Charlie joined us for trick or treating, and after our traditional dinner of pizza we costumed up and headed out!






They had fun and were tuckered out from the excitement when bedtime came! Another holiday under our belt.