Crunchy Doritos Chicken

I found the amazing recipe at Six Sisters Stuff. This chicken is like crack (I assume I’ve never tried the stuff), I could not stop eating it. It was the perfect amount of crunch on the outside and juicy on the inside. It could have used a bit more seasoning by itself but when I added my Kraft Spicy Ranch dressing as a dipping sauce it was amazing!

You will need:

4 Boneless Skinless chicken breasts (I stock up on the frozen bags so I just defrosted in the fridge)

Bag of Nacho (or any flavor really) Doritos

Flour

3-4 egg whites (I only used 3)

Salt and Pepper to taste

If your oven is slow to heat, like mine preheat a bit before you even start dredging to 400 degrees. I didn’t really measure my flour, just poured enough into the container. You could really add the salt and pepper to the flour or the Doritos. I also didn’t end up using the whole bag of Doritos so I would recommend putting about half the bag in a gallon Ziploc bag then crushing them. A lot of the recipes I read said to use a rolling pin or meat tenderizer to crush the Doritos. I just used my hands and was able to get them crushed but not minuscule pieces, which is kind of what you want. If the pieces are too small you lose all the flavor.

I cut my chicken into half inch strips, cutting off any fat as I went.

Some other recipes I saw suggested soaking the chicken in buttermilk for a couple hours before dredging in the flour. I wasn’t going to buy buttermilk just for this one meal so I skipped this part (as did the Six Sisters, I knew I liked them). After I cut the chicken I dredged in the flour making sure all sides were coated.

Then on too the egg, again making sure its well coated.

Last but not least the Doritos. This is where it gets uber messy. I took a kind of roll and press down approach to this to make sure I was getting all sides and that the Doritos were staying on the chicken. By the time I was done with all the chicken my fingers looked like the chicken rolled 100 times in egg and Doritos. Normally I keep a cute red towel in the kitchen for hand washing and occasional goop on hands. Anytime I am working with chicken I just remove it from the area since I know, out of habit, I will wipe my hands on it. Even though I would wash it right afterwards I still don’t trust that it’s fully clean. So I set out two sheets of paper towel to use instead.

Once you are done place the chicken on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray!! I forgot this step and paid for it, half of my delicious crust ended up stuck to the pan. So don’t forget to spray! Once you have all your chicken on the sheet pop it in the oven for 15-20 minutes. I always go a little higher than the middle of cooking ranges so I ended up cooking mine for 17 minutes and they were perfectly cooked!

Again the spicy ranch really makes it. It’s not too too spicy, but it will have you reaching for a drink after a few bite.
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Yummy Crockpot Beef Stew

It was actually starting to warm up a bit yesterday, but I still just wanted to sit in my PJs all day and curl up on the couch. I knew that would not be possible so instead I decided to make a warming classic stew.

I made up this recipe on the fly, which in the past have turned out horribly, like call for pizza this is inedible horrible. Yet I keep trying and using S as my guinea pig. Well thankfully this one turned out to be a keeper. Everything was tender, but not mush, and the flavor was amazing. 

The best part was that since the vegetables were so tender L got to join in the stew fun.

I swear my child wears clothes, but at that moment I was exceptionally happy he wasn't. I keep sending pictures like these to my mother and she's asked me if I ever feed him with clothes on (I have other pictures that prove I do). He's just starting to eat finger foods so I figure he can go sans clothes at home till he gets the hang of it, then he can just purposely smear it across his shirt.

I was also happy I found cheap crock pot bags. They are amazing! I don't know why I ever made so many crock pot meals without them. I found mine at Cub, but have also seen them at the dollar store.

I also found my stew meat fairly cheap as well at Aldi. I get my ground beef from them all the time and that has been great, I was a bit unsure of their other meat but figured I would give it a try. Since it was just for two of us I only got 1.38 lb, which cost me around $6.

I peeled and chopped 5 potatoes, as shown in the picture, but ended up only using 4 since one looked a bit ify to me after cutting into it. Four ended up being the perfect number, anymore I think would have been too much potato.

I used beef bouillon cubes to make my beef stock, they are just so much easier to store than cans or boxes. I make that up first so that the cubes dissolved by the time I had everything cut.

I put the bag and stew meat in first then started chopping up my veggies. I'm not a huge onion fan and I absolutely hate chopping them so I only used half an onion. If you have a chopper or love onions I would add the whole thing or even just a bit more than half, it really gives the stew great flavor.

Once all the veggies are chopped and in the crock pot I added my spices. I decided to go with garlic powder, basil, oregano and bay leaves.

After everything is added I poured the beef stock over the top of everything and gave it a mix up. I generally prefer my stew a bit thicker so I could have added less stock or even a pinch of flour to thicken it up, maybe next time.

Now time to wait and clean. I ended up having to turn the heat setting down to warm after about 5 hours (I thought S would be home sooner) since it was all set. Finally time to curl up on the couch with my warm bowl of stew, did I also mention it makes the house smell amazing!

Crockpot Beef Stew

1-1.5 lb. Beef Stew Meat
4 Carrots
4 Medium Potatoes
3 Stalks Celery
1/2 Onion
1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
2 Teaspoons Basil
2 Teaspoons Oregano
2 Bay Leaves
3 Cups Beef Stock (could use only 2 if you don't want it too soupy)
Salt and Pepper to taste

1. Add your stew meat to the crockpot. If using bouillon cubes start those before the veggies so they have time to dissolve. Peel potatoes and carrots. Chop all veggies.
2. Add the veggies and herbs to the crockpot.
3. Pour beef stock into the crockpot, make sure you mix everything up well so the meat isn't stuck at the bottom.
4. Cook for 5 hours on Low. I stirred it a few times just to make sure it was cooking well, you don't have to stir it more than once or twice I would say.

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Crock Pot Chicken and Stuffing

I am so sad I did not get a picture of this glorious meal. It was beyond delish, even S liked it and he rarely likes anything I make. This recipe I found by googling crock pot recipes, call the pinterest police I’ve gone rouge. The site is called iSaveAtoZ and it has some amazing recipes not just for the crock pot, eggnog cookies anyone? The recipe for the chicken and stuffing can be found here.

So again I had to tweak this one based on what I had on hand and for the fact that I didn’t need 4 servings. I tweaked this one far less than the pizza pasta recipe, but the only real tweaks I made were cutting the recipe in half and using canned green beans instead of frozen. Here’s how I made mine:

I put two frozen chicken breasts on the bottom of the crock pot, the recipe states to use defrosted, but I chose this recipe last minute so frozen it was.

Next came the stuffing, S and I LOVE stuffing so I really covered the chicken breasts till you couldn’t even tell there was anything under the stuffing.

I used one can of cream of chicken soup and ½ cup of sour cream. Now I’m not sure how they got the soup mixture to look like that in the picture (I’m guessing they actually smoothed it over the top), but mine did not look like that. Mine looked like globs on top of stuffing, could I have smoothed it over the top? Sure, but really who was has time for that when the recipe clearly states to just top it over the stuffing (that really leaves it open to interpretation). Either way whether you smooth or glob it still tastes pretty darn good.

I completely drained the green beans before adding them to the top of the mixture. I really should have been paying more attention when I was grabbing the can out of the pantry, because I added cut green beans not whole and astetically it would have looked better with whole, but again who am I trying to impress.

Last but not least I added ½ cup of water to the top.

Since the chicken was frozen when I started I turned the crock pot on high for about 4 hours, after that I switched it down to low. When I switched the heat I fluffed up the top mixture and stirred it a bit to make sure the stuffing was getting enough moisture.

Let me tell you the smells coming from my kitchen while this was cooking were amazing. It was like a whole Thanksgiving meal in one beautiful, easy to clean up pot. The chicken was so moist and almost hit the melt in your mouth level of amazing. I would give this one five stars and will be making it again in the near future. The added bonus of this recipe is that the cost is pretty low while not being horribly unhealthy.

As always let me know if you’ve tried this, something similar or just think it sounds amazing. Stay tuned for future crock pot madness.