Football Epilogue

I tried out my cooking skills recently with these ad hoc chicken fajitas. It's so easy a guy like me can do it. The result was super delicious, so much so I made it twice. Once as the salad below and once using the romaine leaves as a wrap/taco shell.    1 Chicken Breast, thawed 1 tbsp. lemon or lime juice 3 Baby Bell Peppers, seeded and sliced into circles 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded to preference and sliced 1/2 White Onion, sliced to comparable chunks 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 splashes of oil salt & pepper Romaine lettuce Pico de gallo (I just went store-bought) 1/2 avocado 1 tbsp. sour cream (optional) Place chicken in a bowl, add a splash (1 to 2 tbsp) of oil, minced garlic, 1/2 tsp of salt and lemon juice. Mix to coat chicken and let sit. Heat second splash of oil in sautee pan and heat on medium. Once hot, add chicken (save the bowl for a moment) and brown for a couple minutes on each side. Remove chicken and cut length-wise into strips and recoat in bowl of seasoning. Pl...

Some Strawberries from the garden, this is my sixth haul like this this year; not bad for a little two foot by four foot swath. Previous years haven't been nearly so fruitful. I guess it takes a couple years for things to really get going. There are more than can be eaten so I made a simple strawberry sauce taking hints from looking at a few recipes: 4 cups strawberries, stemmed and hulled 1/4 cup lime juice (lemon could work too, but was out) 1/2 cup sugar 1 tbsp cornstarch Mash strawberries lightly in saucepan and stir in other ingredients. Heat to dissolve sugar on low-med heat. Once more fluid heat to a boil on med-high. Turn down the heat and simmer, stirring frequently/continuously for 7-ish minutes. Allow to cool or serve warm on ice cream, pancakes, waffles, steak, hot dogs, sushi, kale or anything that could use a flavor improvement. :) Store or hot water can/jar for later. The sauce is definitely a "sometimes" food, but does preserve that tast...

Chicken breast, pre-cooked wild rice, 1 cup water, poultry seasoning, parsley, minced onion, garlic salt, white and black pepper and some corn on the cobb. Delicious.