Onto our next recipe- But first a quick recap if you haven't read the two previous posts. My husband and I love food and cooking, but we are lazy. We invented a meal prep plan that's working for us, so I'm sharing the basic principles with you, the internet.
Last night we made chicken nachos.
Here's the very basic info. I probably won't give measurements and such, because that's just not how I cook. You've just got to do what looks and feels good when it comes to food. Unless you're making something new, special, or complicated... nachos are none of those things...
Ingredients
- 1.5 chicken thighs pre-prepped then pulled.
- Tortilla or corn chips (We're a tortilla chip family)
- cheese (In a jar, from a bag, whatever)
- salsa
- black beans
- olives
- chopped veggies of your choice
- sour cream (which the kids call taco cream, so they don't get it confused with whipped cream)
The most important part of this recipe is that the chicken is pre-cooked and ready to shred and go.
In case you've never made nachos (I don't know your life), you pile the chips, meat, beans, and cheese on a cookie sheet type pan and pop them in the oven until the cheese is nice and melty. You put the cold stuff like salsa and chopped veggies on after. A nice mix of hot and cold items is good. I cook most things at 350. I don't know if it's right, I just know it works.
Now if you have tiny under-lords to appease like we do, it's important to chop those veggies up into small pieces... small, basically unrecognizable pieces... Is that a tomato? Is that an onion? Nah, that's just some red and white glitter making our meal sparkly with vitamins. Matt made dinner by himself last night, while I sat nearby drawing pictures and chatting. He missed chopping the olives, so instead of a purpley, black glitter the kids would hardly notice we had whole olives, lol. The six year old (our picky one) tried to hide them, then ignore them. Fortunately, the lure of more chicken, cheese, and chips won him over and he just popped those big suckers in his mouth and powered through.
My real surprise was no one complained about the beans. Our six year old thought he didn't like beans, but it's just his eyes that don't like most food. Matt and I performed an experiment the last time we made chili where we pureed the beans in our food processor. 6 came into the kitchen and saw me pouring the beans in and asked, "What are you putting in there?" I said, "Flavor." He was like, "Mmmm, flavor." and went on his merry way. After dinner that night, he was like, "Chili is better with no beans!" Gotcha, sucker! We told him we HAD put in beans, secret beans! We've been putting secret beans in soooo many meals. I told him we put secret beans in his ice cream... his face, tho... parenting is fun.
But anyway...
Our 8 year old gave it "one thousand thumbs up!!!" Our six year old gave it 2 thumbs up, even with the beans showing and giant olives. We'll call that a success!
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