My Molly and Me

This is my roommate Molly, we like to pretend we're a couple, complete with fights, sports and children talk....one of our dorky pass times...

Chicken Tortilla Soup!

So I have also discovered my love of food and cooking for other people. I want to put recipes and pictures of my creations on here (that is the motivation talking). I have an awesome Tortilla Soup recipe that I made recently, super easy, super healthy and super cheap.

So here it is.

Start cooking 2 large chicken breasts, make sure to season these, you'll end up with more flavor, cook these until done and shred into bite sized pieces.

In a large soup pot

Saute (not caramelize) 1 cup of chopped carrots, onions, celery for about 10 minutes at a low heat in olive oil.

Mince 2 cloves of garlic, add this to sauteed veggies, you'll also want to add cumin, chili powder, minced jalapenos if you feel you need the heat and any other spice (salt, pepper, etc)

Let this cook together....for a few minutes

Add 5 cups of chicken stock, 28 oz of diced canned tomatoes, 1/2 cup chopped cilantro, your cooked chicken....let simmer

Slice up some tortillas into strips and add right before you serve...top with sour cream=amazing!!!

You can also throw in diced avocado, corn, black beans, rice?, etc...

I add lime to mine in the beginning stages as well..squeeze the full lime into the base and leave the whole thing in the soup while it is cooking...you don't have to do this if you're not a lime fan, however I can't get enough of it.

Super easy, and yummy. Try it out and let me know what you think. :)

Again, new changes

Ok, so I was reading the previous blog...saying how I was going to be on this more and how I had lots of changes to report.

I now have even more changes, and I can't make any promises to being on here and adding posts more often, but maybe I will. I get motivated when I log on.

So new changes?

Dating someone new, pretty awesome!!! Different relationship than I've ever had before.
I moved into a house with Molly, once again pretty damn awesome!!!
Working at the Ports for Northland Services...awesome!!!
Not managing the Don Todd anymore...awesome!!!!
Just went to Anchorage...you guessed it, awesome!!!

So I guess you can say that everything has been awesome in the last several months.

Enjoy some photos

Apartment

Oh yeah I moved into a 1 bedroom!!! Sooo much better! Love it, huge.

changes in my life

Ok so massive stuff has changed since the last time that I added anything to this blog. I now have a lot of time on my hands so I figured that I could keep it up a bit more.

I am recently laid off, super happy that I have the chance to find something that I really want to do now. I am going to look at jobs that will use my degree.

I am within the last 2 months a single person again. Having a total blast being so.

I'm going to Alaska in a month and Vegas for Halloween, so I have some fun things going.

This summer has been one of the best ever! Fun weddings, fun nights, roof top partying, camping and random other things, super awesome summer.

I'll add some pictures.

Bowling night

Mike and I went bowling last Friday, it was very fun, i totally sucked and Mike won- he is good at basically everything he does. I swear, he'd try to deny it but dont listen to him. Ok I'm going to go read my new favorite book!

my scrapblog

you should check out my scrapblog.com/amymichelle


I love this, you can see more of what i've been up to, mostly just me and mike.