I love the cold ! I love how when I go outside and it’s so windy and chilly, but I’m warm because I’m wearing thermals and a windbreaker and I love how my cheeks feel like they’re frozen over, because probably my face is trying so hard to send blood up there to warm it up. I love how I can’t walk very fast anyway because of the shoes I wear these days, but also because all the layers I’m wearing don’t allow me full range of motion anyway so I just waddle and take my time crossing distances. It has to get done, I have to get groceries, I have to walk to the train, I gotta go see my friends, and I get to be all bundled up and leave like a few minutes earlier to make the journey.
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Ingredients:
Meat
- Chicken breasts
- Chipotles in adobo sauce
- Yogurt (Greek or home made)
Tacos
- Blue corn taco tortillas
- Cilantro
- Limes
- Onion
- Avocado
- Cheese
- Slice chicken breasts in half and toss in large sandwich bags or tupperware
- Chop 4 chipotle peppers and toss in bag
- Add two dollops of yogurt into bag and shake it to mix and coat the chicken breasts
- Let marinate overnight
- Heat up a cast iron skillet with some olive oil
- Turn oven to 375
- Add each halved chicken breast at a time to seat on cast iron skillet
- Once all chicken has been seared, put them all in the pan and in the oven for around 10 minutes
- Take chicken out and let cool
- Meanwhile, chop up limes, cilantro and onion and mix. This topping is nice after it sits in the tangy lime juice and cilantro can spread
- Warm up tortillas on a pan, add chopped chicken, add cheese
- Fold over and flip to toast both sides
- Place tacos on plate and top with lime, cilantro and onion mixture and sliced avocado
Notes:
...Noticing how whenever I meet someone new, there’s new repeat questions. Like I feel like, when I was growing up, all I had to say was ‘I was born in India and moved here when I was nine.’
But now, I’m asked ‘Oh so you grew up in the city?’ and I have to be like, no, I meant the states like America, we actually moved to New Jersey.
‘So when did you move to New York?’
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