Pantry Dinner #6 and 7

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First,
before we get to any dinners
aren’t friends and neighbors wonderful!

Apricots are in season around here and from the looks of it, it will be a wonderful crop!

There are many years that we won’t have apricots if we have a late season frost and while the spring time was wet and cool, it didn’t get cold enough to freeze the apricot blossoms!

My neighbors across the street gave us some of their apricots, aren’t they pretty!

I love the color
and if I have more I would have made the most fabulous jam from them!
But, instead, I make apricot crisp!
I have never made crisp from apricots and I think it turned out pretty darn good.
We had it for breakfast on Sunday.

Pantry dinner number 6 was on Saturday and I turned to one of my staples
Salsa Chicken.
I throw chicken breasts into the crock pot, dump some salsa over the top and cook on high for 4 hours.
Once it is done cooking I shred it with a fork, and this is what I am left with.

I use this chicken as a base for a lot of meals:
Chicken Enchiladas, Quesidillas, Tacos, Burritos, even on Salad with rice and black beans.

All of those recipes require cheese and since I am out of cheese I needed to improvise.
I found in my pantry a half a block of velveta cheese, I had used it for a recipe and had some left over. Normally I don’t ever use velveta, it is too processed for me (when cheese can be stored on the shelf it makes me suspicious). Anyway, I cubed up the cheese and tossed it in with the shredded chicken and let it melt.

This is what it looked like after all the cheese melted in.
YUM HUH!
I served it burrito style and everybody loved it.

I had a little left over, it ended up in a baggie tossed in the freezer for another time.

On Sunday I cooked a Turkey breast given to me by a neighbor, she ran out of room in her freezer (yay).

I cooked it the same way I roasted my chicken the other day and it turned out just as good.
I served this with rice, gravy and steamed summer squash.

3 thoughts on “Pantry Dinner #6 and 7”

  2. All I have to say is your a genius. I can come up with an idea here or there, but a whole week off the cuff? You da woman!
    P.S. It looks yummy. I might have to do the salsa chicken tonight.
    *hugs*