White Chicken Chili

I was looking for this post for a friend and realized I haven't put it on here.  So, here you go.  My award winning White Chicken Chili.

Lots of ingredients, but Delicious!!


1/4 cup Vegetable Oil (I use EVOO)
2 pounds diced, cooked chicken meat
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic
20 ounces chicken broth
1/2 cup salsa
2 cans petite-diced tomatoes
2 (7 oz each) cans diced green chilies
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon ground coriander seed (I usually make without!)
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
4 (15 oz each) cans white beans (juices not drained)
2 cans corn (juices drained)
salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste

Heat oil and and cook onion and garlic until soft. Stir in broth, salsa, diced tomatoes, chilies and spices. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Add corn, chicken and beans. You can simmer for 5 minutes, but I have found it best to simmer for as long as possible up to an hour. Serve with toppings for people to choose from: cheese, avocado, sour cream, tortilla chips or cornbread. (Cornbread is my Favorite!!)

Strawberries and Cream Trifle

This is totally for me, so, sorry!  I need a place to record this recipe so I don't lose it.

Strawberries and Cream Trifle

1 14 oz can Eagle sweet and condensed milk
1 1/2 cup cold water
1 (4 serving size) instant vanilla pudding and pie mix
1 8 oz container Cool Whip
4 cups sliced fresh strawberries (more for garnishing)
1 cup Smucker's special recipe Strawberry Preserves
1 large (9 inch) prepared angel food cake cut into 3/4 inch cubes
2 T sliced almonds

Whisk sweet and condensed milk and water in a large bowl.  Add pudding mix and whisk for 2 minutes, until well blended.  Refrigerate for 5 minutes, fold in whipped topping. 

Stir together strawberry preserves and sliced strawberries.  Spoon 2 cups of pudding mixture into bottom of a 4 qt trifle bowl.  Top with 1/2 the cake cubes, half the strawberries and half the remaining pudding mixture.  Repeat layers ending with the pudding.  Chill in fridge for 3-4 hours.  Garnish with sliced strawberries and almonds before serving.

Cars Carmel Corn!

For our treat tonight, we celebrated the release of Cars 2.  The kids all want to see it.  I thought I would share the recipe!

Cars Carmel Corn

Ingredients:

2 bags of (light or no butter) popcorn (or air popped)
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
100-120 cars marshmallows (or 20-24 large plain), divided

Step 1: Make popcorn.  Set aside.  Put butter, brown sugar, 50-60 cars marshmallows (or 10-12 large plain) in a microwavable bowl.  Microwave on high for 1 minute.  Stir until marshmallows are melted and combined.

Step 2: Add remaining 50-60 marshmallows (or 10-12 large plain) and microwave on high 1 minute.  Stir until mostly combined.  (The kids thought it was super fun to have different color streaks in the popcorn, so we didn't stir until all marshmallows were mixed in.)

Step 3:

Step 4:  Pour over popcorn and stir.  Enjoy!  Make sure you have paper towels or napkins.  Fingers get sticky.  Depending on how gooey you want your popcorn you can make more of the carmel topping.  We like it gooey so we make another 1/2-whole batch.  We use air popped popcorn.  We don't like the butter on the popcorn for carmel corn.  The moves...totally different story.  ENJOY!!

In the 2nd picture of the finished product, you can see blue streaks.  The kids had SO much fun!  We can't wait to see the movie.

Linking here, here, here, here and here.

Pocket Full of Posies

Have you ever struggled with dinner?  Keeping everything organized and in the right spot?  Well, I have.  Then I discovered Pocket Full of Posies!  I love their pokets.  I have most of their recipe cards as well!  I use it when I am making my freezer meals, I use it with the recipes that I am going to make for the week or for special occasions.  No last minute searching for the stinkin’ recipe!  Anyway, check it out.  And, because I love it, I am going to give one away.  (They are not sponsering this.  This is stricktly my doing). 

How do you win?  Here are the steps.  This Giveaway will end December midnight Alaska timeDecember 18th. 

1. Go check out their website.
2. Click on recipe packs and look through their list of recipes. 
3. Find one recipe that you would love to try.
4. Come back and leave a comment here letting me know which of their recipes you would like to try.

Ready?  Go! 

The winner will recieve a Mega Monthly Pocket Package with their choice of pocket design and shipping. 

New blog of interest

I found this blog and will be trying some of the recipes. Maybe you would like to look too!

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

Sassy