Stacy's Chicken Enchiladas

So good, so easy, so filling!
*see additional instructions below to make this dairy-free

Ingredients:
2 cups cooked & shredded chicken
1 brick cream cheese
2 cups salsa (spiciness to taste)
1 can black beans, rinsed & drained
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp pepper

2 Tbl Olive oil
8 flour tortillas
1 cup shredded cheese
1 cup enchilada sauce

Preheat oven to 350'
Combine first 6 ingredients.
Coat 9x13 pan with olive oil.
Fill tortillas with Chicken mixture & wrap in burrito style.
Place wraps in pan.
Bake 20 minutes
Cover with cheese
bake additional 10 minutes
Cover with warm enchilada sauce
Serve with corn & large side salad. YUM!

If you want to make these super-healthy I have included some easy add-ons. Feel free to use any or all, they should go unnoticed by all but the most sensitive of tasters.
Puree 1/4 cup canned white beans and sub these for same amount of cream cheese.
To chicken mix add 1/2 cup frozen chopped spinach.
Add 1/4 cup chopped carrots to salsa.
Cover with 1/4 cup chopped fresh or canned (chopped) tomatoes, along with enchilada sauce.

To make this dairy free and more allergy friendly simply use soy cream cheese and omit the corn. I have it on good authority that soy cream cheese is an excellent and nearly undetectable replacement for cow's milk cream cheese.

Leftover Turkey or Chicken

After picking apart the remains of your Thanksgiving turkey or perhaps even a rotisserie or whole roasted chicken use the leftover meat and turn it into this zesty asian-inspired soup.

To slow cooker or crockpot add:
3 cups leftover turkey or chicken
3 cans chicken broth
1 can refilled with water
2 cups chopped carrots
1 cup frozen, chopped spinach
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 cup instant brown rice
1 cup chopped cabbage

Cook in crockpot till done. Yummy!
Side note about the last four ingredients. If you like it less spicy reduce both curry & pepper by half the amounts listed.
Add the rice & cabbage during the last 3 hours, if possible. If they cook the whole time they'll be a little too mushy for my tastes.

Out of dishwasher detergent

While cleaning the other day I had the dishwasher all loaded and ready to clean dirty dishes when I realized I had ran out of dishwasher detergent. My child was asleep, which is why I had a few minutes to actually make my house presentable, so running to the store was out of the question. I really didn't want to beg more off of my neighbor since I had borrowed a load's worth fairly recently and that just gets tacky after awhile. So I did what any modern mommy does in a cleaning crisis. I Googled "out of dishwasher detergent" and let the internet work its magic.
After wading through a bunch of hippy weird-os and their off beat posts I noticed I did find a similar recipe on most pages. Equal parts Borax and baking soda. Some helpful advisers also recommend a bit of oil for smelling purposes but I don't particularly want my plates to smell like essential vanilla anyway so I decided to omit this. It's a personal choice, feel free to add it if you wish.
Unfortunately for me though, I had never actually heard of Borax before this internet sojourn. So I had to wait until Killian awoke from his slumber anyway, but I was intrigued by this supposedly cheap and effective dish washing method. On my next trip to The Bowels of Hell, (you may know it as WalMart) or TBoH, I located said Borax near the laundry soap and it seems to have a myriad of uses. They're listed on the box so I won't bore you with them here but I now keep a box in my laundry room and I find myself using it more and more.
Now for the dishes I do supplement some regular dry dish detergent but I keep my baking soda/Borax mix in an old spaghetti jar next to the detergent and I use about a Tablespoon of each for my dishes. According to the Internet Advisers I am helping to reduce the pollutants introduced into my city's sewer systems and therefore the world at large and also saving myself a few dollars a month. Who knows, I may even save enough to not feel so guilty about that $5.00 latte?