Sour Cream and Lime Chicken Soup

Suzie Roberts

In my cookbook, Girlfriends on the Go, it gives you tips and ideas on how to make dinnertime in your home run more smoothly. There are also many recipes that freeze well if you choose to do make-ahead meals. I will never cook any other way. It has saved me time, stress and money. Here is a new favorite recipe that a friend gave me. Now your friend is giving it to you!

Sour Cream and Lime Chicken Soup

3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 cloves garlic
1 onion
1 cup water
32 oz. Chicken Broth
16 oz. Salsa
1/2 cup instant rice
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp salt
1 can corn
1 can black beans
4 oz can green chilies
1 16 ounce tub sour cream
1 lime

Cook chicken, garlic and onion in a little olive oil. Pour in water and chicken broth. Bring to boil. Add salsa, instant rice, oregano and salt. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add black beans, corn and green chilies. Heat all toghether.
Squeeze lime into the tub of sour cream and mix together. Top each serving of soup with the lime/sour cream. Yummy!

Chicken a La King

By Suzie Roberts
How does dinnertime at your home happen? Is it rushed and hectic? Is it stiff and rigid? Is it your time to discipline your kids and have a serious family meeting? I hope not. I hope your dinnertime is calm, fun and inviting. I hope you talk to your children and see how their day was. I hope you have fun and get to know each other. Often, this is the only time families sit and talk together. Make it happen! Studies show that children are less likely to do drugs, drink and have sex as teens if they have dinner with their families at least 5 days a week. It is where your children learn values, open communication with you.

Here are some ways to make this happen:
Plan ahead! Plan dinner so that when it is time to put it on the table, it's done and not stressful and rushed.
Work around schedules. If your son works until 7:00, eat at 7:30.
Make it fun. Play games, talk, and laugh at the table.
Work Together. Have kids help, or even make dinner.

Here is a quick and yummy recipe that you can make-ahead and freeze. When you have a crazy night and don't have time to make dinner, pull it out, heat it up and serve over rice.

Chicken a La King

1/4 cup butter

3/4 cup milk

1/2 cup diced green pepper

2 cups cooked chicken, cut up

1 small onion, chopped

1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1 can cream of chicken soup

In skillet, melt butter, cook green pepper and onion until tender. Stir in soup and milk. Blend well. Stir in chicken and cheese. If freezing, place in a gallon size freezer bag and freeze. Otherwise, serve over rice, noodles, or puff pastry shells.

You can eat this!

Suzie Roberts

I have picky kids. At one point, I could count on one hand what my son would eat. I was reading everything I could on getting your kids to eat and try new things, when I thought of a neighbor of mine who has 10 children. I asked her if she had any picky kids and if she had any insight for me. I will always remember these things. She said she would always make sure that one of the things on the plate was something that her picky child would eat. If they were having a main dish that she knew that child would not eat, she would make sure that she had rice with it because she new he would eat that. She also said this profound statement to her children at the dinner table one evening when some of them were complaining about dinner. She said "If you can eat your bugars, you can eat this!" Isn't it funny, the things children will put in their mouth, but you put vegetables in front of them and the turn up their noses!
My son is still picky, but he has learned to like many more things because I always offer new things instead of getting in a rut and feeding him only the same things that I know he likes. It took a lot of patience and prayer. One day when he was 7 years old he asked me, " Why did Heavenly Father make me a picky eater?" He was very serious and had tears in his eyes. I then learned that this was not his choice, and it wasn't something he wanted. I told him that we are all given obstacles in life and this was one of his trials that he would have to work to overcome. This seems like such a mole hill, but to him it is a mountain, just as any of our own trials.

Honey Mustard Chicken

In the hustle and bustle of daily life, we often forget the importance of eating dinner together as a family. I will be posting some reasons why that is so important as well as make-ahead-meal Ideas to make this task possible! My book, “Girlfriends on the Go”, gives you tips on how to make-ahead and freeze meals, and ways to make life easier in that area. There are many recipes for you to try, but I will be posting new recipes that I have found that freeze well also. Whether you freeze them or not, they will make great, simple meals so you can spend your extra time with your family!
Honey Mustard Chicken
6 Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 Family size can cream of chicken soup
½ Bottle of Paul Newman’s Lighten up Honey Mustard Dressing
1 Bag baby carrots
If freezing, see directions below, otherwise, mix together soup and dressing. Pour over chicken and carrots in a crock-pot. Cook low 6-8 hours. The chicken will fall apart! Break chicken in smaller pieces and serve over noodles or rice.
Serve with breadsticks and a salad!
Try it and let me know how you like it!