I've been cooking a lot lately

New recipes and experimenting. It's kinda fun. Tonight, I made some chicken corn chili and Mike lovvvvvvvvvvveeeedddddd it. Here's the recipe:

1 can of diced tomatoes
1 can of whole kernel corn
1 can of pink or red beans
1 package of thinly sliced chicken cutlets (about 1.5 lbs)
1 package of chili seasoning
corn tortilla chips
shredded cheeses

Cut and dice chicken in small squares. Place chicken in pan on low heat and cover. Add desired seasonings to the chicken. (You can marinate your chicken before if you like). Cook chicken until tender. Mix beans, tomatoes, chili seasoning and corn together in a separate pot. Cover and cook on low heat. Add chicken. Mix and let sit over low heat for 10 minutes.

Serve over tortilla chips and top with shredded cheese.

Goes well with a nice brown or amber ale. Enjoy!

Challenges '11

A random message board user posted this idea of drinking 2L of water every day to help improve your skin and help control your weight. I am not sure that it has directly affected my weight but I can tell you that after the first couple of weeks of starting out on the challenge, I feel great. Well rested for the most part and waking up with ease is all I need to make me feel like it's working. Some days I don't drink all 2L but that's usually on the weekends when I'm on the go. Either way, I'm down 20 oz and it's almost noon today so I think I'm doing pretty good for today's goal. This is just another goal I'm striving for in the year 2011. My original resolution of "Text less, talk more" will be picking back up now that I have a new Blackberry phone in my possession. Enjoy your day!

Happy New Year

What is your resolution? Did you have time to even think of one? Either way, for the most part, I think they are dumb. But mine this year is "text less, talk more"... It really isn't working out as well as I want to this early on, yet, I still have time to make some ch-changes. My new year begins today :)