Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Pampered chef cool and crunchy chicken tacos recipe modification

Thanks to Jana for putting on a wonderful cooking show at Brooke's house and reminding me how awesome my pampered chef tools are. Naturally, I got on a cooking kick.
I made the cool & crunchy chicken tacos (amongst other things) out of the season's best spring/summer 2010 cookbook and I made some modifications that made this recipe a little more user friendly.
I found that this didn't really work in a taco shell because there was just too much to put in there. However, if you want to still put this in a taco shell here are some tips: shred the chicken, lettuce, jicama, and mango instead of slicing like the recipe recommends. This helps it fit in your taco better.
My family turned it into a salad instead. We mixed the whole portion of mayo mix in with our chicken and put it on top of the lettuce. Then topped with the lime juice infused mango and jicama. We topped it off with crushed up taco shells (you can use tortilla chips) and made an awesome chicken salad. We also threw on some corn and black beans for good measure. No salad dressing is needed because of the dressing on the salad and the mango mixture.

Give it a try, and enjoy~

Perfect day

Yesterday was a most blissful day.
I greeted the sun in the morning with yoga on my deck and had a wonderful workout. The humidity allowed me to sweat a lot which helped me feel like I was accomplishing something. It was so peaceful with nothing but the sound of birds chirping while I was posing. Lovely.

Also, Natalie took 8 steps on her own and is consistently doing 2 and 3 steps on her own. Can I say this is officially walking?

Kamryn finished off this lovely day by going pee in the potty for the first time and today has only had 1 accident. I hope she just decides that peeing in the potty is a good thing and doesn't look back to diapers.