Fajita Fiesta

We love making fajitas at our house. I love chicken fajitas and my husband loves steak fajitas so we often make both. Anything that looks like a big spread smörgåsbord of food that we can assemble ourselves makes my family happy. We're not Tex nor Mex but we do love a good Tex Mex meal. Here's how we do chicken and steak fajitas:

Use thin strips of chicken or steak. (If I'm cooking both I cook them separately)

Fry meat in a little bit of oil or cooking spray and add your favourite spices. We use Mrs. Dash and Clubhouse Greek or any other table blend as well as some salt and pepper. When the meat is half way cooked, throw in lots of coloured peppers strips or rings, onion strips or rings and sliced Cremini mushrooms. Keep stirring. When everything is just about cooked I add a few tablespoons of salsa and toss it around loads and let it finish up. The meat has great flavour but that little bit of salsa finishes the steak or chicken and the stir fried vegetables nicely.

Gotta love assemble - it - yourself dinners!

We put out shredded cheese, extra salsa, sour cream and our favourite Spanish rice (my favourite is Rice-A-Roni Spanish Rice cooked with a half can of diced tomatoes) and pile everything in our own desired quantities onto our warm tortillas. Some of us even dollop our rice into the fajita while others like it on the side. These fajitas are awesome and if you make too much, they taste great the next day. We warm them either in the oven in tin foil or in the microwave under plastic wrap. Ole!

Easy Chicken Quesadillas That Are To Drool For

For a great meal fast meal that's a crowd pleaser, you can serve these chicken quesadillas up with some Spanish rice (homemade or pre-made is fine) and / or a Mexican salad. For my salad I put some of my favourite veggies together with salsa and ranch dressing and toss it together. Shredded cheese, tortilla chips and some jalapenos make it quite mexican-ish.

For my quesadillas, I brown some chicken in oil and spices and when it's done, simmer with some salsa for extra flavour. Any other spice you like will do such as Mrs. Dash. Sautee some vegetables like multi-coloured peppers and onions and fresh mushrooms and get your ingredients together. I like to set up an assembly line on the counter to make them easy. An adult can eat one or one and a half and kids generally eat under one depending on how thick you make these.

Open up some flour tortillas (big ones) and spread them with sour cream and salsa and plenty of diced cooked chicken and peppers and other veggies that you like.

Generously sprinkle with your favourite cheese and then fold in half. Put in a Pannini maker to toast or a griddle will do, flipping to warm both sides. Serve with sour cream, salsa and guacamole for dipping. I like to cut mine in three in pie shaped slices.

If you're watching calories you can use extra veggies to plump up your quesadilla, fat free cheese and light sour cream. To spice it up, use hot salsa or piquante as well as extra jalapenos.

Christine's Cold Mexican Dip

Looking for a great, easy cold Mexican dip? Love guacamole? This one is not as spicy as it sounds and you can control it by controlling the quantity of spicier ingredients. I spent the weekend eating some food made with love...my cousin Christine made her newly famous Mexican dip for our girl's weekend. Girl's weekend this time was low effort so we decided to do appetizers instead of elaborate meals. Actually, I suggested it because I typically get to do the most elaborate meal and this weekend was about relaxing.

Girl's weekend is four of us in a cottage in the woods with no men, no kids and no counting calories or carbs. I thought I'd share it with you. It's filled with love and yummy goodness:


1 500ml tub sour cream mixed with 1/2 envelope Old El Paso taco seasoning. You don't have to use the whole tub and you can use low fast sour cream

Your favourite refried beans

Some lovely guacamole

finely chopped jalapeno peppers to taste

chopped tomatoes

chopped green onions

shredded cheese (any kind you like. Marble works well)

chopped black olives

Most of this is to taste and you can make it as big or as thick as you like. Layer beans, then guacamole, then sour cream mixture and then cheese and then top with the rest. Serve with your favourite tortilla chips. Ours are: Tostitos Multigrain.

This recipe is SOOOOO filled with love!