This Week's Tastiness

This week I made two recipes. One was recommended by able-bodied girl in one of her recent blogs and can be found online at the Year of Slow Cooking. It is called Chile Verde, and it involves chuck roast, tomatillos and diced tomatoes.  I was interested to try it because of the tomatillos.  Tomatillos are from the tomato family, but are smaller and green.  I had seen them in the produce section back when I was regularly searching for new fruits and vegetables to try for your reading pleasure, and thought they looked interesting. Plus, I love the green salsa at Moe's, and I think tomatillos are what makes that so tasty.

It cooked all day in the slow cooker today and it was DELISH! I'm not the best at describing flavors, but this had a sweet, almost tangy taste. I highly recommend it.  I served it with crushed tortilla chips on top.

These are tomatillos.

My second recipe was Chicken and Broccoli Casserole.  Despite it  receiving rave reviews on Sparkrecipes.com, I was not sure it would be good.  I've made a similar casserole before that I did not love.  I swapped the recommended Cream of Mushroom soup for Cream of Chicken, basically because Cream of Mushroom is gross.  I also thought about reducing the cheese to make it lower in calories and fat, but I'm glad I didn't.  It was super cheesy.

Enjoy!