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Thursday, November 12, 2015

White Chicken chili




It finally turned crisp and cool here in San Antonio!!! I was so excited that I busted out the christmas decor. No really I did.. but I will save that for another post. I checked the weather app on my phone and saw that the low was going to be 50 degrees so I pulled out my crockpot and that was that :) My white chicken chili is perfect for a crisp fall evening.. the crockpot does all the work during the day so that when dinner time comes you can pull on your cozy sweats and grab a bowl of steamy hot chili. Sounds perfect!!!


Ingredients:

  • Three cans of white beans: I normally choose Cannelini, Northern Beans, and Butter beans
  • One small can of hatch green chills
  • chicken broth
  • one half chopped yellow onion
  • Three cooked chicken breasts ( or a deboned rotisserie chicken works nicely too)
  • one small poblano pepper diced 
  • cumin, cayenne, salt, pepper, paprika, chilli powder
  • fresh cilantro chopped rough
  • sour cream
  • avocado
  • monterey jack cheese
Procedure:


-If you are using a rotisserie chicken make sure and get all of the meat off of the bones then throw it in the crockpot using a full box of chicken broth ( I use low sodium organic chicken broth or stock and use 3/4 of the box) If you are using chicken breasts that are raw I suggest cooking the chicken breasts first and then shredding them later after everything is cooked before dumping the rest of the ingredients in the pot.

  • place cooked chicken, broth, yellow onion, poblano, green chillies, and all of the white beans in the crockpot. Season generously and cook on low for about eight hours. If you did not use rotisserie chicken now you can shred the chicken breasts. Add the fresh cilantro thirty minutes before the soup is done. Serve with shredded Monterrrey Jack cheese, sour cream, and chopped avocado. Enjoy!!!

This would be fabulous over my Cornbread Casserole. The recipe for Callie's Cornbread Casserole can be found HERE










Lindie



Lately I haven't blogged much because I have had a lot going on...
some of which I will share now..and some I will share later...

On October 27th I learned that my best friend in the world had passed away. Respectfully, for her family I am not going to give any details. She will be so incredibly missed...words cannot explain the depth of how much she was loved. 

 I met Lin in 7th grade during PRIDE. She thought I was weird because I always had my nose buried in a book and I thought she was weird because she was always writing notes to boys. Regardless a friendship started and we were pretty much inseparable. Writing notes to boys and reading books turned into slumber parties and tormenting our mothers. We went on tons of trips, cheered and made fun of the girls our boyfriends broke up with us for...the list is endless. We went to all of our dances together, spent many sleepless nights staying up talking and laughing, took selfies...visited each other during college.  She was there when I needed someone to talk to, vent to, cry to...she was always there and now she isn't. There are SO many things I want to tell her and now I cannot. I wanted to share a few memories on here because she was so special to me...

The heart will always remember <3 



Lindie Elizabeth Deblase

April 6th 1989- October 26th 2015

















I will miss talking to you, I will miss hearing your laugh, I will miss sharing special events with you,I will miss your texts of funny e-cards that remind you of us,  I will miss sharing Netflix favorites with you but mostly I will just miss the vivacious person that you were. I will always miss you my friend. 




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