Lime Chicken Fajitas

This recipe is by me Brittany Cornett. I love to make this dish since it is fairly simple and very yummy.

For Marinade:
Zest and juice from 2 limes
2 cloves of garlic
A dash of hot pepper sauce
1/2 tsp of chili powder

You will also need:
2-3 skinless boneless chicken breast cut into thin strips
1 red bell pepper sliced
1 green bell peppers sliced
1/2 onion sliced
1/2 cup of frozen corn
1 can of black beans (optional)
Avocado
Sour Cream
Tortillas

After marinating chicken for five minutes or longer if you have the time, cook chicken thoroughly on stove with some olive oil. When chicken is no longer pink take chicken out of plan but leave the juices add sliced bell peppers, onion, and corn. When veggies are softer add black beans and chicken. When heated thoroughly you can remove from heat. Place mixture in tortillas and top with sour cream, and avocado.

Carmel Apple Pork Chops and Sweet Potato Carrot Mash

Okay so I made this last night. I loved the Sweet Potato- Carrot mash and I liked the Pork Chops. This meal has a real comfort food feel. And pork chops are on sale lately because of the fall. The changes I would make to the pork chops are to add some cornstarch to the sauce to thicken it also put it a little extra brown sugar on top when it is warming in the oven. The Mash I thought was awesome and really healthy so has an added bonus. The recipe had you boil the carrots and the potatoes at the same time I would probably put the carrots in 5 min earlier and then add the potatoes. Also I added some extra pumpkin pie seasoning to the mix. I definitely will make the mash again and I think it would make great homemade baby food minus the raisins.

Moroccan Beef Lettuce Wraps

This came from yet another Weight Watcher Magazine recipe (the WWM September/October 2009 issue).

"1 eggplant, diced

1large onion, diced

3 garlic cloves chopped

6 dried apricots, chopped

3/4 lb. ground lean beef or ground lamb

1 (14 1/2-oz.) can diced fire roasted tomatoes with garlic

1/2 tsp. ground cumin

1/2 tsp. ground coriander

1/2 tsp. black pepper

1/4 tsp. curry powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1/8 tsp cinnamon

12 large Boston lettuce leaves"

So to paraphrase first saute the first 4 ingredients about 3 min then add the beef and let brown. After the beef is browned you can add the rest of the ingredients and let simmer for about 4 min. I wouldn't make a lot of adjustments to this recipe, it was very tasty. I think ground turkey would taste just as good or better because it has kind of a sweet taste to it. Also we added a bit more cinnamon and I liked that, and the last thing is we used iceberg lettuce not sure what Boston lettuce leaves are?

Denise's Peanut Chicken

This is sort of a stir-fry. I found this recipe on Allrecipes as well. I did a 1/2 cup of peanut butter instead of peanuts because that is what everyone suggested. I also added carrots and broccoli to add more vegetables.

Basil Chicken over Angel Hair

So a friend of mine blogged about this recipe and I tried it as well. Really good. You can do it with shrimp as well. I used whole wheat pasta and fresh basil.

Corn Bake

This was also found in the Weight Watchers Magazine July/August 2009

"Preheat oven to 400*. Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with nonstick spray.

Mix 2c fresh corn kernels, 1 can cream style corn, 1box of corn muffin mix, 1cup low fat buttermilk, and 2 tbsp light stick butter (melted)

It says to "bake for 40 min" but I thought it needed more like 50. This is great with barbecue chicken.

Chicken on the Barbecue

Here are two marinades for the barbecue that I loved. One my husband kind of invented so that is cool.

Garlic and Seasoned Rice Vinegar Marinade by Justin Cornett
3 garlic cloves minced or crushed
3 Tbls olive oil
3 Tbls Seasoned Rice Vinegar
This is great to do with boneless skinless chicken. It doesn't need to sit long.


Mustard Chicken by Weight Watchers Magazine (July/August 2009)
"1/4 c honey mustard, grated zest and juice of 1 lime, and 1 Tbls each soy sauce and minced garlic."
This is good as more of a brush on technique rather that a marinade. I used Dijon mustard and added some honey in because that is what we had. This is so good.

New Recipe Blog

So I wanted somewhere to keep all the recipes that I like in one place so I can go back to them later and a blog is a great place for that so here it is! Most of the recipes I use are packed with veggies and come from allrecipe, weight watchers magazine, Rachel Ray, and various other resources. As I don't come up with these recipes myself I will probably just place a link to the recipe as not to plagiarize. My next blog will be pretty crazy cause I need to catch up on all the recipes I have done in the past couple weeks. So enjoy!