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One of my favorite foods is chicken enchiladas. I just love the taste and the gooeyness of them. In the past I have made them with a can of cream of chicken soup and flour enchiladas. I am trying to eat gluten free so I thought this time I would try them with chicken stock and corn tortillas.
For the sauce:
1 tablespoon butter
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tbsp cornstarch
1 cup chicken stock
1 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp fresh ground pepper
1 cup medium salsa verde
1 cup light sour cream
for the enchiladas:
3 cups chopped or shredded chicken (I used chicken and stock from a whole chicken I cooked in a slow cooker and froze last week)
8 oz Monterrey Jack Cheese, shredded & divided
1 small yellow onion, chopped
12 – 14 corn tortillas
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375°F.
In a medium sauce pan, melt butter over medium-high heat. Saute garlic, for 1 minute. Stir in cornstarch, constantly stirring, and cook for 2 minutes. Whisk in the chicken broth, cumin, salt and pepper and bring to a low boil. Once boiling, whisk in the sour cream and salsa verde. Remove from heat.
Spray/grease a 9×13 baking dish. Add 3/4 cup sauce to the bottom of the pan. Add chicken, Cabot Monterrey Jack Cheese, and onion to the center of each tortilla and roll, placing seam-side down in the dish. Pour the remaining sauce over the enchiladas. Top with leftover cheese and bake for 20-25 minutes or until bubbling. Once the enchiladas are bubbling turn on the broiler for a few minutes to brown the tops a little bit. Watch carefully so the enchiladas don’t burn! Serve immediately.
It’s been awhile since I have posted. Hopefully I will get into a better habit of posting. I really admire people that blog regularly. Talk about dedication! Unfortunately, that is not me.
This year I have a few pre-teens and teens that need Christmas gifts. At first I was a little worried about what to get, but stumbled upon a few things. They were so cute that I felt I should share them others. If you are looking for expensive high-quality gifts you are probably in the wrong place. For this post anyway. These are great stocking stuffers or just something a little extra to add to a gift.
First I found these Kids’ Snuggle Wraps from LTD Commodities. They’re cute and look very comfy. (Click on the picture to be taken to the site to find out more info.)
I thought the monkey one was pretty cute for a pre-teen girl and am seriously considering getting the camouflage one for my nephew. These are also sold through The Lakeside Collection and several other sites and catalogs.
I also found some really cute slipper socks.
I ordered the bee, frog, and monkey ones and they are totally adorable. They are also very soft and have grippers on the bottom. According to the site they are only hand wash and line dry, but I imagine they could be washed on gentle.
If you know me, you know I love to eat and try new things. I especially love to try new frozen treats! It’s one of my favorite things about summer. It’s not officially summer, yet. However, over the last week we have had several days of temps in the 90s. I thought I would share some of my favorite frozen treats to enjoy in the Summer.
These things are so, so good. They have real pieces of coconut and are really creamy. They don’t have a lot of nasty weird ingredients in them either. (Well other than corn syrup and stablilizers). Here in Dodge City we can only find them at Walmart. During the summer season they can hardly keep them on the shelf. We try to stock up – IF we can find them. Most of the time we can only find them about 50% of the time. They have other flavors like Strawberry, Rum Raisin,Pineapple, etc. I hear they are also good.
2. In my opinion, Breyers always gets it right and they definitely got it right with their Grasshopper Pie Ice Cream. How can you go wrong with ice cream, mint, and cookie pieces? This is one of my new favorites. However, it may now be banned from our house. Sorry, I looked and looked and couldn’t find a picture. I would have taken a picture of ours, but we ate it already. hehe.
I have also heard the rest of their new Bars and Sandwiches are also tasty. I haven’t had a chance to try them, yet.
4. Skinny cow… need I say more?!!! I was so excited that I could find their ice cream sandwiches in SW Kansas and even more excited I could get so many varieties here in Dodge City!
Over the last few years, I have been lucky enough to try the Mint, Strawberry Shortcake, Vanilla, and Vanilla Chocolate Combo. The Cookies ‘N Cream and Chocolate Peanut Butter also look good. Unfortunately, I haven’t found the Chocolate Peanut Butter here.
I have also heard their single serve cups are to die for! I haven’t tried them, yet. The best thing about them is the whole cup are a serving and are 150-170 calories a piece. Be still my heart!
Their skinny dippers and other bars are also tasty, but some of them have artificial sweeteners in them. Artificial sweeteners and I don’t get along well.
5. Edy’s Fruit Bars. These are so delicious and refreshing. I have tried Strawberry, Creamy Coconut, and Lime. The Creamy Coconut are almost as good as the Coconut bars I mentioned first, but not as quite.
There are so many more I could list. Ice cream is my weakness especially anything made by Breyers or Blue Bunny. What’s your fav?
Oh boy! What a fun and crazy time! I really enjoyed reading everyone’s’ posts and keeping up. Although, I didn’t exactly keep up, but I sure tried! It seemed like most of the time I was good at doing my lesson, just not writing my blog post at the end of the lesson. Not exactly the best course of action. It would have been much easier to write my posts at the time. You live and you learn right?
Here is what I learned:
1. We have so many creative and technologically gifted librarians out there!
2. Shelfari can be used for more than just book reviews. You can use it to keep track of how much book cost, if you lent it out, etc. Someone (Brenda I think?) even mentioned how they used it to keep track of the books her baby had so friends and family knew what books to purchase. I am kind of sad that I couldn’t put a widget on my blog, though. I am seriously considering hosting my own WordPress blog. *shrug*
3. You can do a lot more with WordPress pages on KLOW than on wordpress.com pages. This one was a hard one for me to swallow. I was pretty sad for awhile, but worked around it. WordPress has been good about having some good workarounds. I was most worried about not having the ability to post videos. Sharon from NEKLS was kind enough to point me and others in the right direction.
4. I do not have as much discipline as I would like. At the beginning I was so sure I would have the time to do the lessons every week and was sure I would stay on top of them. Not so much… I admire those that did their lessons and post every week. Kudos to you!!
5. Zoho is pretty darn cool. I could see myself using their tools for several projects, both personal and professional.
6. There are Templates in Google Docs. I have been using Google Docs for so long I didn’t even notice the templates were there! They are so fun and so easy to use. Some of what people have done is fab!
7. You can do Presentations in Google Docs. I need to be better about opening my eyes. Heather Braum and I worked on our KLA presentation using Google Docs. It was so easy. It was an even better choice for us since she is a Mac User and I am a PC User. We could probably have our own commercials…
8. I still don’t totally “get” Creative Commons. Maybe… someday I will.
9. Facebook changes way too often.
10. I discovered The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond’s Blog. I love, love, love it! Although, her blog and cookbook aren’t a good thing to discover when you’re on a diet. I had heard of her several times before, but never got the hype until 23 Things Kansas.
11. Facebook changes way too often. Oh yeah… I already mentioned that.
12. I love, love, love Animoto. It is so very easy and the finished product looks so professional. I discovered yesterday that they now have a Water theme, perfect for Summer Reading! Check out the video I did below this morning.
14. Some blog platforms are a lot more user-friendly than others. There were times I kind of wished I would have used Blogger, but I am pretty happy with WordPress.
15. Sometimes blogging can make you feel all alone out in the world. I have often wondered if people were reading my blog. And come to find out… sometimes people really weren’t! lol
16. I really need to take the time to keep up with my Google Reader. It really has helped me keep up with my blog reading, but I am so bad about checking it.
17. If I had the chance I would spend all day on Facebook, Twitter, and reading various blogs. I suppose this explains why some weekends a lot of housework doesn’t get done.
18. No matter how much time I spend on Facebook or Twitter, there are still things to learn. I was the co-author of these lessons and still learned from Heather and from others. I learned a lot about customizing your profile and privacy settings during these lessons. Thanks to the great questions I received from participants.
19. It’s ok not to know everything. This is hard for me. I need to learn that I don’t always know how everything works. However, the good thing is you can usually find a resource online or a person to help you! That’s why librarians are so fabulous – they love helping people!
20. Most people outside of the library world have no idea what 23Things is… or… ILL for that matter. Or… KLOW. I have tried to do better about not using library slang.
21. You can use Jing to make screenshots! I love, love this. It is so simple and so easy. I learned this from Liz Rea and also from Sharon Moreland’s Screencasting Lesson. Liz in her infinite wisdom usually sends me a screenshot from Jing whenever I ask her a question. That woman has some patience!
22. I discovered Mashable. I had been to Mashable’s site before, but never totally understood how valuable they are. Now when I have a social media question it’s the first place I go. However, everytime I see the name it still makes me want Mashed Potatoes.
See now you want some, too.
23. Yes, I am finally almost done. I also rediscovered commoncraft and how great their videos are. I am always so amazed at how simple these videos explain things. Almost every lesson we had for 23ThingsKS had at least commoncraft video in it. How cool is that? It’s another of those tools, I couldn’t live without. Why didn’t I come up with an idea like that? In November of last year there was a free webinar from TechSoup called “Tech Training Made Simple” which included Lee LeFever.
All in all a good, but crazy experience. I am so thankful that others in our office and in our system were doing the lessons at the same time. I think we all really kept each other on our toes and also were a big help! I look forward to more 23 Things and possibly even a SWKLS 23 Things.
I have always thought that wikis were a great idea. They are so easy to edit and give people freedom! However, it seems like it’s always so hard to get people interested in editing them. It usually happens in one of two ways. Either people are scared to edit them or you have a few people who go overboard and are the only ones editing them. There has to be a happy medium somewhere. Several years ago we tried to have a FAQ wiki on our site. It never really went over. We were hoping that coworkers and libraries would collaborate on it and the wiki information would basically seed itself. It never really happened.
For our assignment this week I went into Wikipedia and found the Dodge City, Kansas entry. At first I was a little nervous and was worried I wouldn’t find anything. It didn’t take long, though. I saw a discrepancy immediately under the sports section which honestly is pretty funny. I am not a sports person at all, but that’s a story for another time. Anyway, they had listed that Dodge City had a minor league basketball team called the Legend. The Legend is no longer playing basketball in Dodge City so I edited it. However, right after my editing frenzy I instantly had editing regret. I took out the whole paragraph about the team and I wish I would have left it in and put in some more details about why they left and when they left. *sigh*
I was pretty sad for awhile, but worked around it. WordPress has been good about having some good workarounds. I was most worried about not having the ability to post videos. Sharon from NEKLS was kind enough to point me and others in the right direction.
