"When the Cat's Away, the Mouse Will........"

Cheat!

Please don't tell.  I cheated and it was SO good.....I mean really y'all, better than EVER.... W's been gone for 2 days and it's confession time.

I'm a CHEATER.

Pleeeeeeeze don't tell!

with a yummmmmy, yummmmmy dish straight from my daughter's recipe box.
We had a blast.

See, W and I have been TRYING to eat healthy.  Guess what,,,,he's lost 30 lbs.  Me? 0

Now let me tell ya folks, this is one good lookin dish.  I'm serious. DO NOT let this puppy get by you.  period.

Here's what cha need:
doesn't that slab a chicken look absolutely divine? Oh, and I had to do a little hops tasting while I was at it.

cook up the chicken and shred it.  Or, buy a rotisserie chicken at the market.

Then dump all of it in a bowl with a little lime juice

 Don't forget the cilantro!

 and the cheese

 Mix it all up together

 Add the shredded chicken

 Preheat the oven to 425.  Add the mixture in either a flour tortilla or the corn kind

Place on an aluminum foil lined pan sprayed with Pam

 Roll em up real tight with the closings on the bottom

 Now, spray each with either cooking spray or a mister

 and sprinkle on some sea salt

 Cook for 15 minutes.  Check it out,,,,I burned the edges.  Check on yours.

 Remember that green dressing we made the other day? 2 blogs ago?  Well here's your chance to use it!

 Pour it all over and eat it all up....Then lick the plate.

Yep I cheated,,,,and loved every minute of it.

Sorry huney.

Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos

2 C. shredded cooked chicken

1 package of small corn or flour tortillas

1 C. pepper jack cheese

3 oz. cream cheese

1/4 C. green salsa

1/2 tsp. cumin

1 tsp. chili powder

1/2 tsp. onion powder

1/4 tsp. garlic powder

3 chopped green onions (optional)

1 T fresh squeezed lime juice

3 T. chopped fresh cilantro

Soften the cream cheese for 20 seconds in the micro.  Mix all of the ingredients except the chicken, cheese and (of course tortillas).  Then mix in the pepper jack cheese and chicken.  

On an aluminum foil lined baking dish sprayed with Pam or a mister, take a round tortilla and spoon the mixture to within 1 1/2" of the tortilla down the center.  Roll tightly and make sure the closure is at the bottom.  Next, mist the tortillas with a mister or baking spray and sprinkle sea salt.

Bake at 425 for 15 minutes being careful not to burn the edges.

****tips:

I used large tortillas (small ones work better)

1 used flour tortillas and I think I would like the corn ones better.

Let me just tell you how good that green dressing stuff is on these. Try it tonight.  Your family WILL love you forever and your spouse WILL forgive you for cheating!

Have a wonderful Saturday y'all!

I've got something exciting to tell you tomorrow!

Stay tuned

xo

kb

Tailgaten Style

Around the Bogges house its....

Tennessee Hate Week.

Well, we don't really hate Tennessee, it's just a thing with Alabama fans.

There is just no way you can like 5,000 different shades of orange.

Period.

I actually happen to LOVE the color orange unless it is on someone from Tennessee or Auburn.

Clemson gets a pass....

only because Dabo is a friend (and a great human).

So,,,,let's share a few tailgate recipes....

I'll start with everyone's all time favorite.

Rotel cups for the win.

https://kendallboggsfineart.blogspot.com/2010/08/simple-absolute-must-have-appetizer.html

just click on this link and it will show you the recipe/instructions.

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Next.....

If you want to impress by bringing a dish....(which is what I'm bringing to our tailgate this weekend)...

Make this....

Chicken Taquitos

Now....if you DO make these, you need to make about 100 of them.

Trust me on this.

And quadruple the sauce because let me just tell you....it's good.

https://kendallboggsfineart.blogspot.com/search?q=chicken+taquitos

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If you want to impress your tailgating guests with something sweet?

Do this....

get small ball jars for people to just pick them up.

Slice up green apples for them to dip.

(or just include a spoon so they can just eat it right out of the jar)

😂🤪

(what I would do)

***HINT - to preserve the apple slices, soak them in ginger ale.

https://kendallboggsfineart.blogspot.com/search?q=sea+salt+caramel

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Now for the real deal in tailgating....

Let's get serious for a sec.

"Kendall Boggs' Drag it Through the Garden Bloody Mary"....

"the more veggies you put in it the better it is"

and healthier😂😂😂

I'm sharing my secret recipe even though I swear one day I WILL bottle and sell this stuff....

https://kendallboggsfineart.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-to-make-perfect-bloody-mary.html

*****edited....this recipe left out my secret ingredient.😳

1 tbsp. of brown sugar. Mix it in well. Cuts through the tart and gives the BM a slightly sweet yet horseradishy taste.

Don't leave it out, trust me.

Wherever you tailgate this weekend have a safe and FUN time!!!

Later!

OH....and Roll Tide

xoxoxoxxoxo

kb

A VERY Yummy Recipe

okay guys....

get out your pen and paper, cause this is a MUST try recipe.

Jordan's Chicken Taquitos with Creamy Cilantro Sauce

omg.

Really it is the best thing I've ever had in my life.

For Christmas, Jordan and Eric gave all of us a wonderful cookbook comprised of recipes from everyone in our family!

I treasure this cookbook.

So, tonight I tried out one of her favorite recipes.

ya'll...you've got to try it.

So, you start with making the sauce because it needs to sit for a while in the fridge.

Creamy cilantro sauce.

you dump all of the ingredients in a blender

 then blend it to death

 then following the directions, you chop the cilantro and green onions

 after stealing some of the rotisserie chicken, you shred about 2 cups

 and mix it all up pretty well

 using small corn tortillas

 and lining a baking dish.

you dab some of the mixture on the bottom of the tortilla

 then roll it up and place seam side upside down

 bake at 425 for 30 min.

Sprinkle with sea salt

using "designer" paper plates, pour the sauce on evenly...

oh yum.

Trust me on this one,,,it's a must try!

have a great night y'all!

kb

"Snow Crazy" and a the BEST EVER dressing mix!

I mean Stir Crazy

That's what I am.....

OKAY, I seriously don't know how you guys up north do it.  Being snowed in is like THE most miserable thing EVER.  Today, W and I HAD to get out.  We have been stowed up in the house now for 3 days (with my wonderful in-laws....)  who I know must be getting really sick of us.

Anyway, I wanted to take some pics of the snow and we needed to get out of the house REALLY bad, so, we went to Watkinsville, Georgia.  A beautiful little town with an amazing Italian Restaurant.

For lunch.

Across the street lies a beautiful quaint little church.

Unfortunately there are all kinds of power lines that make the church pic a bit of an eye sore.

 but we found another beautiful church!

 then we went to a favorite neighborhood filled with beautiful farms.

This is one of my favorite barns.

 that is the home to one of my favorite guys!

 and another, who was a camera hog

 ......and a flirt

 "W" and I decided to go visit our friends

 Slippin and slidin the whole way....and my new friend wanted to get a little "too" close!

 by this time he was well, gettin a lot too close.

 I love barns.

 Hum.....this was an interesting sight! Welcome to the south in snow!

 anyone for golf in the snow?????

 then I had to take a pic of  the back of a house of someone really, really close to me!

 Okay, on to other stuff....Jordan's yummmmmmmmmmmmy, yummy dressing.

Let me tell ya.  Go to the market TODAY and get the stuff to make this y'all.

It's better than good.

Here's what cha need....(recipe below)

 dump it all in the Cuisinart

 Add a little hot sauce (to taste)

 Squeeze a couple a limes

 Add the ranch dressing mix

and mix away until smooth!

 There ya have it....

You can use this on a world of things.  I'm puttin it on a salad tonight for salad dressing, but J put it on chicken taquitos.  But they are also good for chicken finger dips, steak bites, really this stuff taste great by the spoonful!
I actually ate it with potato chips.

Jordan's Dressing:
1 cup mayo
1/2 C. milk
1 pkg. hidden valley salad dressing mix
1/4 C. green salsa mix
2 squeezed limes
1/2 cup well chopped fresh cilantro
2 chopped garlic cloves
hot sauce to taste
Mix well in a blender or cuisinart
I think it will last about a week in the fridge,

Eat it up y'all!

kb