This is my husband putting my nursing pin on me.
This is one of my best friends from nursing school, without her, I think I would have pulled out all of my hair.
My sweet husband, and myself after the pinning. Can you see the relief on his face??
So, since I have finished school, and am now free on Monday nights (until I start working), I have had ample free time. I roasted a 15 lb turkey last week...it was in my freezer and needed to be eaten. Actually it was on the back deck and then needed to defrost in my fridge and then be roasted, but thats neither here nor there. I have 15 lbs of turkey (well, I guess its really like 8 or so pounds). One of my other friends from school called me and wanted to hang out tonight. She suggested I make chicken tortilla soup, and gave me the recipe. I made some alterations to the plan, so this is what I made:
2 cans of chicken broth
1 can green enchilada sauce
1 can red enchilada sauce
1 can rotel
1 can fiesta corn
1 small can green chilies
2 blocks cream cheese
shredded cheddar (about 1.5 cups for each can of broth)
Chicken (either two cans of white breast meat in water...or TURKEY!)
That's right, I used turkey, because while I had canned chicken...the chicken is in a can, and isn't going to go bad. I chopped up quite a bit of white meat turkey and added it to the soup.
Basically, pour all the cans into the crockpot (I drained the corn, rotel, green chilies though), add cream cheese (in small cubes to promote meltage), and shredded cheese (I had pre-shredded on hand). Then, I let it sit on "High" for about 2-3 hours, or until it is hot and bubbly good. I guess you could cook it on low all day, and if you like more spice, add more spice-by all means. This was plenty spicy for me though.
That was dinner, and it was good. I followed it up with some gooey butter cookies.
Now, for something else exciting-my niece is due in about 6-8 weeks (I think it will be 6 weeks, but the official due date is 8 weeks)...I have a HUGE surprise I get to blog about, and I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!!!
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