Giant Fajitas

Check out the video below for this video. Yum!

 

https://www.chefclub.tv/en-us/recipes/original/e0d081e6-a1bb-4933-9299-13986a05bab9/giant-fajita-crunchy-cheesy-smokey-heaven/

We tried a variation of this dish. Ian isn't a peppers fan,

 and neither he or Scott like avocados. Sigh! 

The variation has hamburger and chicken with onion in the middle; 

salsa mixed with sour cream for the dip.

Giant Fajitas
1 green pepper
1 red pepper
1 yellow pepper
4 chicken breasts
2 onions
2 avocados
9 flour tortilla wraps
1 tomato
1 packet of tortilla chips
1 3/4 cups of grated cheese
1/2 lime
Olive oil
Cilandro
Tabasco
1 tbsp paprika

On a tray, add the sliced peppers, chopped onion and chopped chicken. Then pour a drizzle of olive oil over and add the paprika then mix. Bake for 20 minutes at 350°F

On a baking tray, overlap the flour tortillas and sprinkle with grated cheese. Add the chicken and pepper mix, the tortilla chips and sprinkle with more grated cheese.

Place 2 more tortillas on top and fold the edges over inwards. Add another baking tray on top to keep the tortillas folded tightly together. Bake for 20 minutes at 350°F.

In a bowl, make a salsa by mixing the avocados with chopped onion, lime juice, chopped tomatoes, cilandro and a few drops of Tabasco.

Upside-Down Cheesecake Apple Pie, Dessert Lasagna, Baked Alaska

We've spent the last three holidays having layers desserts! 

That's what happens when you are indecisive or creative, I guess

First up: Thanksgiving! 

When we were trying to decide on a pie (really do you need more than one with just three people?!), I found a recipe for an Upside-down Cheesecake Apple Pie, topped with pecans. Really a pecan pie on the bottom...which becomes the top. We gave it a try. It wasn't pretty, but very tasty!! Recipe from here.

Next: Christmas!

Ian made up a dessert it wanted to try. He called it Dessert Lasagna, which I thought was interesting as he doesn't like lasagna (strange kid!). The layers went as follows: ice cream sandwiches, cheesecake, whipped cream, more ice cream sandwiches followed by more whipped cream, topped with strawberries and heavily 'drizzled' with chocolate sauce. He thinks next time he wants it to be more 'strawberry-y' adding strawberries between layers and swirled throughout the cheesecake, and using strawberry ice cream sandwiches. Scott and I thought we'd like the add the strawberries just before serving as they were distracting to the taste frozen.

Finally: New Year's Day!

I decided to make a small and medium-sized Baked Alaska. As you can tell from the ancient recipe, I've had it for a long time but haven't made it for years. I used a Ghirardelli Triple Chocolate brownie mix instead of following the recipe for the base layer. Next came peppermint ice cream. Topped with the meringue layer. Again, chocolate and/or caramel sauce was added. Another collection of sugars we enjoyed.