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CHICKEN CHILE PHILLY

~ Rolled up in a slightly skillet toasted burrito shell instead of bread.  Outstanding!

HERE’S HOW WE MAKE IT
INGREDIENTS:

• 4 x 6 ounce boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 1/4 – 1/2 cup vegetable cooking oil
• 1 yellow onion, sliced thin
• 3 medium green bell peppers, cored and sliced thin
• 1 pint button mushrooms, sliced in quarters
• 1/4 cup Cajun spice (think Ragin’Cajun Fixin’s All Purpose Cajun Seasoning – found in the spice section of most grocery markets)
• 1 cup sharp white cheddar cheese, shredded
• thinly sliced iceburg lettuce
• diced fresh tomato
• Ranch dressing
• Salt and Pepper
• 4 large flour tortillas – toasted one side at a time in a skillet – sprayed with a cooking spray (Think Pam – or spray of choice like Pam)  Remove toasted tortilla shells and let rest until it’s time to roll

NOW:

• Preheat a skillet to medium high heat
• Season both sides of the chicken breasts with the Cajun spice mix
• Sear both sides in about 1/4 cup vegetable oil until both sides of the chicken are cooked throughly
• Remove cooked chicken breasts – reserve on a plate – on the counter

IN A SEPARATE SKILLET:

• Over medium-high heat – place onion slices in about 1/4 cup of the vegetable cooking oil
• Cook onions until caramelized, stirring from time to time.  Not too much – gotta let them do their magic, for about 20 minutes
• Add the bell peppers and mushrooms
• Continue cooking until soft.  About 10 minutes, stirring frequently

GET READY TO ASSEMBLE THE CHICKEN CHILE PHILLYS:

• Slice the cooked, seasoned chicken breasts into thin slices (think fajita thin slices)
• Add to the veggies in the skillet
• Toss with the shredded white cheddar cheese
• Divide evenly in the center of the 4 large, toasted flour burrito shells
• Place on individual plates
• Garnish with shredded iceburg, tomatoes and Ranch dressing
• Roll up burrito style

SERVE WITH (on the side) :

• Freshly chopped cilantro
• Red or Green Salsa
• Sour Cream
• Heated Refried Black Beans

TA-DAH!

~ Hippie Cowboy recipe box

EVER WONDERED?

1. How sometimes a pizza can get to a house faster than an ambulance?
2. Why there are handicap parking places in front of a skating rink?
3. Why drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy candy and cigarettes at the front?
4. Why people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet drink?
5. Why banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters?
6. Why we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage?
7. Why we buy hot dogs in packages of 10 and buns in packages of eight?
8. Why there are drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering?
9. Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
10. Why women can’t put on mascara with their mouths closed?
11. Why you don’t ever see the headline, ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?
12. Why is ‘abbreviated’ such a long word?
13. Why is what doctors call what they do ‘Practice’?
14. Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dish washing liquid made with real lemon?
15. Why is the man who invests your money called a broker?
16. Why is the the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
17. Why there isn’t a mouse-flavored cat food?
18. When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
19. You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?  Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
20. Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
21. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

~ another goodie from my email collection
circa 2016