practice what you pin: baked chicken fajitas

Paring It Down update: closet cleaning is (very) slowly but surely coming along.  Not even close to blog-worthy after pictures, but still stepping in the right direction, without stepping over as many piles of my clothes. 

One thing I'm really excited to do with this blog is actually DO things that I pin on Pinterest, and then blog about them here.  I'm especially excited to do this with recipes, because I am not the best cook can barely make frozen pizza, so this is the perfect opportunity for me to make really easy recipes but feel like a fancy accomplished Chopped champion when I share them.  Seriously, if you are a good cook, save yourself the most painful few paragraphs of your life and stop reading now.  Seriously.  You're embarrassing me.

So last night I made Baked Chicken Fajitas from Six Sisters' Stuff.  If I could only pick three words to describe this meal they would be:  easy, delicious, and guilt-free.  We really only made a few modifications, like serving it over lettuce, corn, and black beans instead of tortillas. Here's the basic idea of what we did:

for the baked fajita mix:

• about 1 pound of chicken cut into strips (I would use more chicken next time)
• 2 green peppers cut into strips
• 2 red peppers cut into strips
• 1 diced jalapeno

So mix all that together in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil and whatever spices you like.  I used cayenne, a little cumin powder, salt, red pepper flakes, and garlic powder.  I think using half a pack of premade taco seasoning would be good too.  Put everything into a greased 13x9 baking dish and bake it for 20-25 minutes at 400 degrees.

While that is baking, make your corn and black beans.  We normally just microwave our canned corn, but my boyfriend always makes our black beans so delicious by adding his not-so-secret-anymore spices (garlic, cumin, salt, and cayenne) to regular canned beans.

Once everything was done we piled it (pretty high) onto lettuce, and put salsa and hot sauce on top.  SO GOOD!  It would also be good on rice or in tortillas (like the Six Sisters suggest).  It was super easy and we'll definitely be making it again.  Let me know if you try this out and what you like or changed!

love and red pepper flakes,
AB