{"id":35,"date":"2006-11-15T01:21:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T06:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2006\/11\/15\/lunatic-ravings\/"},"modified":"2006-11-15T01:21:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T06:21:27","slug":"lunatic-ravings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Lunatic ravings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Tortilla Madness<\/a>
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\n Originally uploaded by Kevin O’Mara<\/a>.
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“What? Another recipe?” I hear you cry. Yes, it is the truth. Once again I have conquered the demons of the kitchen and returned triumphant with a tasty dish fit for two guys to eat on a Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to make Tuesday be my “cook for the parents” night, and so far it’s working, though this week Mom’s out of town visiting relatives and so it was a guy’s night … um … in, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Before I get too far into this, I have to brag on my dad – he’s pretty much the best kitchen help I could possibly hire. Considering I don’t have any spare cash, my help would have to work for free, and you just can’t find good employees for free anymore. I guess that’s what’s at the root of the word employee, after all – the word employ<\/I>, from the French, trompe l’oiel<\/I>, which means to pay people to sit around in such a way that it appears they’re actually working.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Dad’s a great help in the kitchen because he and I seem to know how to work without getting in each others way. He has a knack for knowing what I’ll need next without me even having to ask, and he’s a pro at cutting tortillas into 1-inch strips. That’s actually what they had him doing in the Army for three years. He has war stories about guys losing fingers during the Corn Tortilla Conflict, dull knives, stale tortillas … it’s horrific.<\/p>\n

I guess I should get around to the recipe part, yeah?<\/p>\n

Oh, hey, but listen – I have pretty much decided that I hate corn tortillas. The soft warm and almost sweet goodness of flour tortillas wins out every day, in my not-so-humble opinion. Next recipe in which I am involved that calls for corn tortillas is gonna get a rude awakening when I mix it up all crazy-like. I found that the corn tortillas in this recipe detracted from the flavor of the rest of the dish so TO HELL WITH CORN TORTILLAS, I say, AND DAMN THE TORPEDOES.<\/p>\n

This Recipe Had Some Interesting Name But I’ve Lost The Link So I’m Gonna Call It … Tortilla Madness<\/B><\/p>\n

1 cup onion, thinly-sliced
\n5 garlic cloves, diced
\n2 cups shredded cooked chicken breast (that means pre-cooked and THEN shredded, people, you can’t shred raw chicken, or at least not easily and without grossing someone out)
\n1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
\n1 cup chicken broth
\n1 can (~7 oz) salsa de chile fresco (I could find nothing of the sort at Food Lion so I made do with some green chiles and mild salsa)
\n15 (6-inch) FLOUR tortillas, cut into 1-inch strips
\n1 cup shredded white cheese or maybe if you’re me you opt for Mexican 4-cheese blend, which tastes just like all the other bagged pre-shredded cheeses at the grocery store.<\/p>\n

1.) Sautee the onions in a little bit of oil until translucent, maybe 3-4 minutes.
\n2.) Throw in the garlic, cook for 1 minute.
\n3.) Add the chicken, cook for 30-45 seconds to warm it up a bit.
\n4.) Put chicken, garlic, and onion in a medium bowl and stir in the black beans.
\n5.) In the skillet, bring the broth and the salsa to a boil, and then turn it down to a simmer for a few minutes. Stir occasionally.
\n6.) Grease up a 9×12 baking dish.
\n7.) Make a layer of tortilla strips, using half the strips at your disposal.
\n8.) Make a layer of chicken-bean mixture, using half the chicken-bean.<\/p>\n

Mmmmmm. Chicken-bean.<\/p>\n

9.) Repeat steps 7 and 8.
\n10.) Pour the broth-salsa mixture evenly over the casserole.<\/p>\n

Mmmmmm. Broth-salsa.<\/p>\n

11.) Top this with the cheese.
\n12.) Bake at 450 (you pre-heated your oven, right?) for 10 minutes, or until cheese is all golden and bubbly.<\/p>\n

Eat eat eat eat eat. I served with corn, because black beans and corn entered into an alliance in the year 450 CE and declared that they would always taste great together and work as a team on any plate.<\/p>\n

Man, I totally need to go to bed.
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