So this month I embarked on a new adventure, once a month cooking. It is great. I love pulling out dinner and not worrying what is for dinner. I love that we can have fresh food with little day of effort. I love that when I cook chicken or beef I wash the pan once for the entire month and don't have to cook it again. Awesome. I love the variety. When you cook for two you can end up eating the same thing for a week which can be a little boring. I don't mind leftovers, but not for three days. A lot of recipes serve six or eight, and with two people that means 3 to 4 diners. Another plus is we are throwing away a lot less food which is always a plus. Right we just have the freezer part of our fridge, not an extra freezer and it works. Maybe by not eating out we can save up for a small freezer that way I can make breakfast foods and frozen cookie dough, but for now it works and works great.
I will start putting up my monthly menu as well as some of our favorite freezer friendly recipes and websites that I find. I would recommend cooking with a friend or splitting it up and swapping meals with a friend. Whatever you do have fun, shop the day before, and maybe pull up the computer and catch up on some tv on hulu.
Here is one of my new favorite recipes:
Ingredients
2 chicken breasts
1 can black beans
1 C brown rice
8oz pepper jack cheese
16 oz salsa
1 pkg taco seasoning
1/2 C chopped cilantro
1 C corn (not pictured)
2 pkg 8 inch flour tortillas
Cook the chicken breasts and chop into 1/4 inch pieces. Steam the brown rice according to package directions. As these are cooking you can drain and rinse the black beans. Drain excess moisture off the salsa. Grate the pepper jack cheese. Mix the rice, beans, salsa, cheese, taco seasoning, corn and cilantro in a medium mixing bowl. At this stage you have the vegetarian version. Now add the chopped chicken for the original version. Now place two heaping spoonfuls (about 2/3 C) of this filling into the middle of a tortilla. Next the left and right sides of the tortilla in over the filling and roll up the tortilla from the bottom to the top. Then wrap each filled tortilla in plastic wrap. Then place in the freezer. When ready to eat, you can put one plastic wrapped Salsa Chicken Wrap into the microwave and cook on high for a 2-3 minutes. Then let it rest for a minute or two so it is cool enough to handle. Unwrap the plastic wrap and enjoy. You can dip in sour cream.
This such a great snack or even meal. I love, love, love them. I used about 20 tortillas and only put about ½ cup in each, this amount seemed to work better for me. Hope you enjoy and don’t forget to check out the blog I found it at Keezas freezer meals.
