Sunday Funday

Happy summer!!! Happy Sunday! What a glorious day! The weather is gorgeous. While it could be slightly warmer out, no worries we have a couple different recipes for y'all today! First let us start by saying we had a special guest today! Our dear friend Erica from college has moved to Boston and we couldn't be  more excited!!!!

We started out with a little app, then some sangria and pizza, topped by a couple 'a cones from JP Licks!

For the app -- We did tomato and mozzarella. First let us say that Tori HATES tomatoes but she ate the whole thing. This was really really simple. We just sliced a tomato, added a basil leaf, and then added a slice of fresh mozzarella on top. It's so easy to pull together and so so so delicious.

Next up-- Sangria! Who doesn't love Sangria? Today we went with a white sangria.
We used:
-2 bottles of pinot grigio.
- 1 bottle mandarin seltzer
-2 peaches- diced
- 1/2 cup of smirnoff sorbet lite- mango passion fruit
- 1/2 of mango OJ from TJs.


Chill until serving

Main Course-- Pizza. This was a weight watchers recipe inspired by Laalosh: http://www.laaloosh.com/2008/11/11/weight-watchers-pizza-recipe/
We took our own take on the recipe mainly because Tori doesn't have a grill LOL

We used:
-3 tortillas by Joseph
-pizza sauce (eyeballed)
-3 slices of provolone cheese (divided)
- 2 tablespoons of parmesean cheese divided evenly
-shitake mushrooms sliced and divided evenly
- diced onion
-handful of mozzarella cheese sprinkled on each.

First we heated the oven to 400 and warmed the tortillas for 6 minutes . Then we added the pizza sauce, onions, cheeses and mushrooms. We returned to the oven and cooked for 10 minutes. Then we feasted and served with sangria. They were delicious. This was the first recipe in a few that we were seriously content with. This was really easy to make and would definitely be a good and quick after work dinner. For our friends doing weight watches out there the pizza was about 5 points! Can't speak for the sangria:)

Well at least the chicken was good

Hello fellow readers! Sorry that we've been on yet another hiatus, our longest one yet. We've moved to opposite ends of the train line and it is now very inconvenient to cook together after work. We've gone back to trying out restaurants, we really liked Tia's on the harborside check it out!

Anyways we're back, enjoying Sunday Funday. We will try to cook more regularly on Sundays coming up. Today we made mojitos and chicken enchiladas.

We started with the mojitos, clearly the most important part. We used a shot of silver rum, ice, mint leaves, seltzer (any flavor), today we tried black cherry, lime juice and sugar to taste. It was crisp and refreshing.

Then we got to cooking. We found today's recipe on siriouslydelicious.blogspot.com. Per usual we took our own spin.

Ingredients:
4 chicken breast halves -- shredded
Skim Monterey Jack Cheese - 6 oz
sliced avocado - 1 half
8 corn tortillas
1 jar of Trader Joe's verde salsa

We started by grilling the chicken on a George foreman. Meanwhile we grated the cheese and warmed the tortillas in the oven. Next we diced the chicken in small pieces. We stuffed each tortilla with chicken and cheese, rolled it, and placed it in a casserole dish. We poured the jar of salsa on the top and baked for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. We topped the enchiladas with the remaining grated cheese and baked an additional 5 minutes. The enchiladas were served with diced avocado on top.

The dish was filling and somewhat light but overall the flavor was both bland and salty, which we attribute to the green salsa. If we were to do it all over again we would use flour tortillas instead of corn, as they were too crumbly. Both of us are not fans of corn tortillas but thought we'd give them another try.

Happy Sunday, catch ya next time!