TONIGHT'S DINNER

Um, tonight was Krystal's.
Little boy was rather difficult this afternoon and when he took his nap, I took one too.
Tomorrow I will try to do something fun with the leftover chili.

My main objective

My main purpose in writing a food blog, is to challenge myself to do something different.
For a while now it seems like we eat the same thing over and over again.
I am probably going to be horrified at how many times per month we have Chili for dinner.

Chili

We had chili for dinner, it was really good considering it was a 50 degrees today.
You didn't seriously didn't think I was going to give you my chili recipe.
I will tell you this. I use Mexene Chili powder, and if you read the recipe on the back of their jar, it is pretty close to mine. Only mine has a few more ingredients in it. I will give you another hint-use cans of chopped green chili's.
That's all you are getting!

Tequila Chicken with black beans and rice

Start with boneless skinless chicken breasts.
Apply liberal amounts of garlic salt, and mexene chili powder
Put in pan pour liberal amounts of tequila around the breasts and put in oven to bake at 400 degrees for about an hour.
I also did something really neat with the Uncle Ben's brown rice that I fixed to go with it.
I put the rice in the pot, then added a can of petite diced tomatoes, a can chopped chili's, and a chopped onion. Allowed it to cook the normal amount of time.
Heated up a can of black beans to go with. It turned out really well. Forgot to take a picture.
Don't know if you noticed it or not, but I am just flying blind here.

TONIGHT'S DINNER

I didn't feel like cooking last night(Fibromyalgia & CFS killing me) so we had some frozen Freschetta Rising Crust pizza's. Their Four Meat Pizza, and the Four Cheese are really good, considering they come out of a box.
Today the Fibro and CFS are still on the warpath, but I was able to throw some Pork Tenderloin Chops in the oven and bake them, so our meal was at least partially homemade.
For side item we had McCain's Baby Cakes. If you haven't had those, they are "nasty good"!*
Our vegetable was steamed baby carrots with butter.
At least it was better than take out.

*Nasty good-term coined by me, to mean a food that is more of guilty pleasure, than nutritious.

My own version of Hoppin' John

Tuesday we had a baked pork tenderloin for dinner. There was enough left for about two sandwiches, but my husband won't take his lunch, and these would have been relegated to a midnight snack for me, which I don't need.

So after racking my brain, I finally came up with my own version of Hoppin' John.
PS-In keeping with the frugal theme-my carrots, celery, canned tomatoes, tomato sauce,black beans, green chili's and chopped garlic ALL came from ALDI'S!

Hoppin' John

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5 slices of bacon, cut into small pieces

1 large onion

baby carrots

3 stalks celery

1 can diced tomatoes

1 15 oz can of tomato sauce

1 15 oz can of black beans

1 15 oz can of black-eye peas

1 small can diced green chili's

chopped garlic

left over pork tenderloin shredded

Started off with a 4 QT. pot

over medium heat cut up bacon in about

1 inch squares into pot to fry.

When bacon is done to a crisp remove and put on paper towel to cool and set aside.

To bacon grease in pot add;

Sliced onion

Cut-up carrots

Cut-up celery

Diced tomato's

Tomato Sauce

Black beans

Black-eye peas

green chili's

chopped garlic

and shredded pork

Stir together, and let cook for about an hour until carrots soften and liquid thickens up.

Turn off heat and allow to sit for a few minutes.

Serve over rice, and top with crumbled bacon.

I also added shredded cheddar to the little boys, which made it really good.