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three handfuls rotisserie chicken meat, shredded
1 onion, diced fine, separated
1-2 chilies in adobo sauce, diced fine
1 green pepper
1 lb baby carrots, cut up
1 quart chicken stock
cornstarch slurry
paprika
1 wee container sour cream (8 oz)
1/2 lb cheddar cheese
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
So I started with the Pioneer Woman's enchilada recipe, and it ... mutated.
Start about half/three quarters of the onion going. Add the chilies when they start going translucent. Do not put your face near the pan anymore; it's atomizing mace now. Yowch.
When the onion looks a little browner, add the carrots and maybe a little oil. You want the carrots maybe browned on one side, but not mushy. You know, cooked.
Add the chicken, beans, and green pepper. Warm through.
This is going to look really dry and not like anything else I cook. Wait for it ...
Sauce
Start the rest of the onion in another pot. Get them anywhere from "not raw" to "delicious and golden brown." It's like a roux (which we're skipping, because flour, no).
Add the chicken stock. Be really concerned about those noises the pan is making. Possibly you should not introduce mostly-frozen stock to a hot, heavy-bottom pot. Um. Yeah, don't do that, guys. (The pot's okay, it just makes funny noises when I do dumb things like this.)
Add the slurry as one does. You don't want pudding here, you just want it thicker than it was. You're going to be adding sour cream and cheese in a minute, which will also thicken it up.
Add the sour cream and make sure it's all incorporated (I used the slurry whisk).
Add the cheese and make sure it melts cleanly.
Serve the chicken with sauce on top. If you didn't make enough for a small army or a scooby meeting, you could serve it on rice or tortillas to stretch it a little further. I think I'll eat well all week and maybe still have leftovers.
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Having now put it away, it makes about six lunch-sized servings (with sauce) and there's about 2.5 c of sauce now in my freezer. Clearly, I need to figure out how to freeze stuff for easy defrosting and transport, but that's another thought for another day.
Todo:
Do taxes
donate or freecycle the futon.
cut shirt(s) for Mom.
purchase carpet (little one), free weights, and swiss ball
put away laundry
purchase or acquire containment system for yarn, so it can get off the floor.
Pin up shirts (I bought a bunch of oversized shirts that need to be cut down).
Purchase new boots (the old ones have very little tread left).
Wash, black, and oil/wax old boots
Purchase hammer and light bulb for ceiling light
Inform landlord about the thermostat being stupid
... that should keep me busy through March.