My meal of choice was going to be a Mexican dish – the ever effortless *
Any kind of Mexican dish, really. Let’s see, we got your peppers, lettuce, onion, tomato, cheese, rice, meat, salsa…So easy. I took a pack of Knorr’s Spanish Rice and some Chicken Taco Seasoning I found at the Wal*Mart.
I chopped my veggies and prepared the cheese, left both in the fridge to chill till the meal was ready.
Next, I began cooking the rice and set aside my wraps to be warmed in the toaster oven. While letting the rice do its thing, I began to slice up my chicken cutlet into small flat pieces.
Then I place them in a pan with oil till they were all white and boiled them with the seasoning mix +water, let that simmer till rice was done!
Meanwhile, I start setting the table and then I chop up the romaine into nice crispy shreds of lettuce. I pop my wraps in the oven and take the chicken out of the pan, pop ‘em on paper towel to absorb any oil and then I am ready to eat!
Unfortunatly this is where my blog changes from informative happiness to annoyed and exhausted complaining-obnioxiousness…
The wrap destroyed my meal. I make myself this nice soft taco with all the fixins’ and the piece falls apart in my hand! This is why I have no photo –no 3rd hand…
Heating up that wrap was a mistake. I kind of feel like I knew that was going to happen, but that didn’t stop me from disappointing myself…The food did not go to waste, my green friends, because I plopped this pathetic excuse of a taco onto the plate, and it opened perfectly, so I ate it like a salad…it tasted good despite its flaws! The chicken taco seasoning was pretty good, but my meat was too cold at this point. I’m also missing something…some kind of sauce – perhaps taco sauce??!! I used some salsa to remedy that situation..i’m still missing something though…what is it….??
THE BEANS!!!! Where the HELL are my beans?!?! Damnit…and when I was in Wal*Mart I was staring at the canned black, red, and pinto beans….i’m pretty sure my roommate has those beans at the condo but I just couldn’t remember…and clearly I forgot all about the beans anyways cuz I didn’t check and now my meal is letting me down….
LUCKILY! I am a prepared individual, for I have heated up 2 wraps and this time around I was gonna get her done right! So, my problem with the heated wrap is that it couldn’t hold all my ingredients without ripping apart…so, I used my brain and made it a thin wrap which called for a small strip of filling but enough rolled layers that it would hold together!
Gosh, I’m a meal-saver!
I then had enough room on top that I could put more of my meal in the space! What a great way to NOT use another wrap but eat all the parts of my meal! It was so nice and thin that I was able to hold it in one hand and use my fork to pack the other pieces in the taco. I have really small hands so this was really really great.
As a bonus, I found some Taco Bell salsa packs and topped my toppings IN THAT! WOOT!! I wanted to shout out “I’m King Of The World!” but I knew that would have been stupid so I kept it to myself. Till now. And you’ve read it…..::sigh:: embarrassing…
I really wish I had the beans, but you live and learn and next time it’ll be even better!
On a side note: I found myself very amused at something I thought aboutwhile cooking tonight, that I think will make a great title for my cookbook; “Never Cook In A Dirty Kitchen!”…(as you will come to learn I am guaranteed to mention every time I blog that a situation I was in needs to be shared because it was funny that I’m so amused by me, if that makes sense…I’m basically making fun of myself in my blog at my own expense, really)
See, what had happened was…
My kitchen is shiny**, as my mother would say. And, she would! She came over and helped me clean it! The “before” was something I should have taken a picture of to give you the visual, but I don’t, so I can’t…BUT I can show you how the fridge looks NOW at least!!
I just can’t imagine cooking a meal in a dirty kitchen. It was such a pleasure and I’m very happy to say I look forward to cooking again now that my kitchen is clean & shiny!!
Cheers!
*I call dibs to use that as a band name!
**Thanks, to my Mom!
