Wonderful Mistakes and Snowstorms

Heidi gave me the recipe here and told me to post it as a regular. This will make 2 meals cheap. This is the real story of how it came about and turned out absolutely wonderful! I am writing this during a massive snowstorm we are having. It is almost done snowing and we have about 24" of snow. Maybe I will put up a few pictures later. I am taking a vacation day today because I would not even have been able to get out of our driveway this morning.

Now for the recipe story. We were asked to make something for a bunch of kids to have at the meeting of their robot club. Just before bed I got out the crock pot and added the following.
2-1/2 pounds of chicken legs that were on sale for $2.39
3 Knorr chicken bouillon cubes
3 stalks of celery chopped
1 large onion chopped

I filled the crockpot with water and put it on Low and covered it
The next morning, about 6 hours later I removed the chicken legs to cool enough to remove the meat from the bones but left the rest of the stuff in the crockpot. I removed all of the meat in fairly large chunks and put them into the crockpot. Heidi had me add a cup of rice before I went to work. The rice stayed in a little to long and made everything a little too thick. She added:
1/3 cup to make it a little thicker
1 can of chopped green chilies
1-1/2 teaspoons of Cajun Spice
This cooked down so that she could stuff flour tortillas with the mixture.
She made about 10 of these and covered them with grated cheese and put in the oven to melt the cheese.

This fed the kids with enough left over for us to use in stuffed peppers the next day. To do this do the following:
Cut the tops off of 4 peppers and remove the seeds.
Par Boil them for about 5 minutes or so.
Put them in a 9" X 9" pan and fill with the rice mixture
Put a nice thick slice of your favorite cheese on top of each one
Pour about 1/2 can of tomato sauce over them
Put them in the oven at 350 for about 20 - 30 minutes or until the peppers are as soft as you like them.

We just had them for lunch and they were absolutely wonderful.


ENJOY