Chicken, Apple, and Cucumber Salad

The Workday Salad.

There's nothing like the workday salad to rely on. It's cool and refreshing, no heating required. You can eat a shitload of it and not feel guilty or have a food coma afterwards. And you can tell your friends "Look how good I'm doing on my diet, I'm eat SALADS at work".

I cooked a few times last week, but didn't post them. So I'm going to say that if you still prepare it at work, it still counts as cooking.

1.5 cups of chopped romaine (Organic from TJ's is a great buy)


1/2 an organic gala apple.


1/2 a cucumber, peeled and sliced


3 cooked chicken breast tenders. These were lime and cilantro flavored from Fresh and Easy


Drizzle of Balsamic Vinegar


Drizzle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil





Place lettuce on a plate. Remove core and dice the apple. Assemble Cucumbers and dice chicken breasts. Drizzle vinegar and olive oil on top. Done.

Breakfast Tacos

I have way too many freaking corn tortillas. I made two grocery lists for two different stores. One for Costco, and one for TJ's. I accidentally put corn tortillas on both. So even though the store run was being done by the same person on the same day, it was still bought two different times from both stores. The result: 4 pounds of corn tortillas. Awesome. So here comes another corn tortilla recipe. While I watch the biathlon of cross country skiing and shooting targets. This is an olympic event. Awesome x 2.

Pam cooking spray
4 strips of turkey bacon
4 eggs
2 tbsp cream cheese

4 corn tortillas
shredded cheese mexican blend
salsa




Preheat pan for a few minutes on medium low heat. Do a quick spray of cooking spray. Cook turkey bacon until crisp on both sides. Drain on paper towels. Don't clean pan. Crack eggs place into the pan directly. Cook until whites turn white, add two tbsp of cream cheese and break it up into chunks with your fingers. Start breaking yolks and scrambling in the pan with a spatula. Cook through, but keep the eggs barely wet. In the meantime heat tortillas in the microwave or in a seperate pan. Place turkey bacon on the warm tortilla, top with some eggs, cheese, and salsa. Simple. Easy. Good.

Chicken Tortilla Stew

The no research, this is what I had to work with in my house, no grocery run soup that turned into a stew.

drizzle of olive oil - about 2 tbsp worth
1 large onion
3 carrots peeled and diced
3 stalks of celery, trimmed and diced with leaves
4-6 cloves of garlic, minced
6 whole dried chilis chopped and include seeds
2 palm fulls of chili powder

1/4 box of red pepper and tomato soup - Trader Joe's
1 can corn drained
1 can black beans drained
1 can diced tomatos - undrained
1/4 rotissere chicken, no skin, shredded
7 corn tortillas cut into mini squares ( cut length wise strips, then width)

shredded cheese to top

Drizzle couple tablespoons to of olive oil to coat the bottom of soup pot. Place on low heat. Dice onion then add. Add carrots and celery when chopping complete. Season with salt and pepper. when veggies are tender, add box of broth. Then add the chilis and chili powder. Cook until veggies are soft (be sure to taste). Ladel out half the mixture into blender. Blend on low until fully smooth. Pour into a seperate bowl. Blend the other half of the soup. Pour back into the blender. Pour the soup in the bowl back into the pot with the 1/4 box of soup. Turn heat to medium.

Add the corn, beans, and tomatos. Add the chicken and make sure the chicken is heated through. Then finally add the tortillas and stir thoroughly. heat for a few minutes. Serve with shredded cheese individually in bowls.