Making Dinner -in pictures

I decided to make my favorite Pita Jungle-inspired dish and make enough for leftovers.  I say "inspired" because we don't actually know what goes into the deliciousness of their Chicken Del Sol, but this is pretty close.  And just as tasty, even if I say it myself.

First, one must don something badass for such an undertaking.  Then remember it is cooking, so a super cute apron is necessary!

 

Then, dice and brown chicken in olive oil and garlic, and chop up and carmelize an onion, all the while thinking, I REALLY need to remember to get these knives sharpened!!

 

 

Remember, CRABAPPLE, carmelizing onion can be a smoky business, so turn on vent fan!

Assemble other ingredients:

Chicken broth, sofrito, chipotle seasoning, a lime, frozen corn and Holy Salt.  Oh, and diced tomatoes, three cans:

Mix them all together in the pot with the the onions:

The buzzer  goes off, so go change out the laundry:

 

 

Come back to the kitchen and wash off the black beans.  You really want to do this.  Don't be lazy and just dump the can in.

Once the pot has started to simmer again, add in the black beans and chicken:

 

And mix it all in.

While you let that simmer, for like, an hour, uncovered, take stock of the state of your kitchen:

And clean it for goodness sakes!!

Then remember, darn!  I wanted to roast sweet potatoes, too!

So get the ingredients together for that: Olive Oil, Vanilla, Garlic, Cinnamon and a Sweet Potato, and a ziplock bag:

 

 Chop up the sweet potato on the one clean cutting board left, once again realizing that you need to get your knives sharpened:

 

Mix the other ingredients all together in the ziplock bag: 

 

 

 Put the sweet potato in the bag and mush around until its all evenly coated with the mixture:

 

You can wash and reuse the ziplock bag, but I won't judge you if you throw it out.  Place the sweet potatoes on a foil covered pan, and stick in countertop oven so you don't have to heat up the big oven.

375 degrees, 30 minutes.

 

Remember: CRABAPPLE, gotta stir the pot!!

 

 

Then add garlic because it is sitting there and can there ever really be too much garlic?? 

 

 After 20 minutes, flip sweet potatoes over so they cook evenly.

 

You now have a bit of a break, so you grab the ice pack from the freezer because you are freakin overdoing the standing thing considering your back was completely OUT yesterday, pose your adorable dog next to it and snap a picture because a picture of an ice pack with a dog in it is much more fun than just the ice pack!

 

Then grab the bleach and wipe down the counter because your dog is a dog and you just set her down on a food prep surface.

 

Then remember that you have to clean the kitchen some more and do dishes and stuff:

 And set the timer just in case you wander off and forget you are cooking something on the stovetop.

YAY!!!  CLEAN KITCHEN!!!

No pictures of me sitting in my comfy chair with the icepack uploading all these darn pictures!!!

But look!!  The food is ready!!!

So now I get to eat!  I put the sweet potatoes in the same bowl because why have to wash one more dish??

Now go entertain yourselves, I'm eating!

Happy New Year!!