Recipe: Easy Green Chili Enchiladas

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If you’re looking to spice up your dinner table, this recipe for Easy Green Chili Enchiladas may be the perfect meal for you and your family. Like all of the recipes Passanante’s Home Food Service posts, this one in particular requires very little prep time, and can be tweaked to include a number of your favorite flavors.

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Easy Green Chili Enchiladas

What you’ll need:

  • 1 can cream of chicken soup
  • 1 small can of condensed milk
  • 1/2 lb. Velveeta cheese
  • 1 small can of green chilies, chopped
  • 1 1/2 lb. hamburger meat, browned (feel free to substitute with boiled hormone free chicken that has been shredded)
  • 1 package of corn tortillas
  • 1/2 lb. cheddar cheese, grated
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 small jar of pimentos
  • 1 small jar of jalapeños, chopped

 How to prepare Easy Green Chili Enchiladas:

  1. Heat chicken soup, condensed milk and Velveeta cheese over the stove. Once melted add green chilies and pimentos.
  2. Combine meat with chopped onions, grated cheese, and chopped jalapeños.
  3. Roll meat mixture into tortillas and place the tortillas seam side down in a pan.
  4. Pour soup mixture over the rolled up tortillas.
  5. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Serve Easy Green Enchiladas with your favorite Mexican rice and a fresh salad which includes diced avocado, halved cherry tomatoes, chopped red onion, a hint of cilantro and fresh juice from 1 lime. Oh! And of course, a delicious homemade margarita! Yum!

Happy Eating!

U.S. Chicken Plants to Increase Chemicals

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Poultry Plant

In an unfortunate turn of events, the USDA is expected to approve a number of new regulations for the United States poultry plant industry as early as this summer. In an effort to keep up with the ever increasing demand for chicken and turkey, the new rules would allow for a 25% increase in poultry line speeds — that’s an increase of 140 to 175 chickens, and 45 to 55 turkeys per hour.

Well, that doesn’t sound so bad, right? Unfortunately — wrong.

With the birds moving down the line at such an increased rate, the ability of workers to spot contaminants including fecal matter would be greatly reduced. With the current regulations, when a bird is identified as contaminated it is removed from the line for manual inspection and a cleaning process which involves dousing the poultry with antimicrobial chemicals. With the new regulations, such slow and manual processes would defeat the purpose of the increase rate. The solution? No birds would leave the line, and to prevent massive contamination issues ALL birds would be dosed with large amounts of antimicrobial chemicals.

According to federal officials as reported by The Washington Post, “the problem is government agencies have not conducted independent research into the possible side effects on consumers of using the chemicals. Instead, they review data provided by chemical manufacturers.” But, these are the same chemicals which have been identified by poultry plant workers as catalysts for major respiratory complications, asthma, burns, rashes, sinus ulcers, and even death.

Thankfully, the poultry delivered directly to your home from Passanante’s Home Food Services is not the same poultry whizzing down the conductor belts in these plants across the country. We pride ourselves on being a credible food delivery service who provides fresh, clean and natural grade A poultry. None of our products are CAFO raised or mass produced. All of our poultry is raised on local farms in Maryland and Pennsylvania on a natural, seed based diet — free of hormones and antibiotics.

At Passanante’s we’re serious about the quality of foods we provide to our customers, we even guarantee it. If you’re interested in speaking to someone at Passanante’s feel free to give us a call at 800-772-7786.

Hot Recipe: Chicken Taco Casserole

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In the mood for some easy to make at home Mexican food? This recipe for Chicken Taco Casserole ought to do the trick! What we love most about this recipe is how easily customizable it is for your taste. Feel free to experiment by adding beans, corn, olives, chipotle tabasco sauce — you name it, get creative!

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Chicken Taco Casserole

What you need for Chicken Taco Casserole (serves 6):

  • 10 3/4oz cans condensed cream of chicken soup
  • 4oz can chopped green chilies, drained
  • 10oz can mild enchilada sauce (substitute for medium or hot – up to you!)
  • 8oz Velveeta cheese
  • 2 cup chopped cooked chicken
  • 12-6″ corn tortillas or corn chips
  • 1/2 cup chopped tomatoes
  • 1 to 2 cups shredded lettuce
  • 1 small jar of sliced pickled jalapeños (optional)
  • 1/2 avocado sliced into cubes (optional)

How to make it in the oven:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Combine soup and cheese, mix well
  3. Add chicken, chilies, and a handfull jalapeños (if desired)
  4. Spread 1/2 chicken mixture over bottom of 2 quart casserole
  5. Pour on 1/2 can of enchilada sauce
  6. Add a layer of corn chips or corn tortillas
  7. Add rest of chicken and rest of enchilada sauce
  8. Add top layer of corn chips or corn tortillas
  9. Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes
  10. Remove foil and continue baking for 15 minutes
  11. Top with lettuce, tomatoes, sliced pickled jalapeños, and avocado bites.
  12. Serve with a dollop of sour cream and guacamole

In a hurry? No problem. You can make Chicken Taco Casserole in the microwave!

Microwave instructions:

  1. Mix as directed above
  2. Microwave on high for 5 minutes
  3. Remove and fold ingredients toward center
  4. If using a non-rotating microwave, rotate one quarter turn
  5. Microwave on high for 5 more minutes
  6. Let set for 3 minutes and serve.

Happy Eating!

Irresistible Dessert Recipe: Hummingbird Cake

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It’s been a long time since we posted our last dessert recipe so today we wanted to share an old family favorite, Hummingbird Cake. This three layer treat makes a beautiful bridal shower dessert, birthday cake, or because-I-can cake… which happens to be our favorite kind! (wink)

Passanante’s Home Food Service is best known for our food delivery service and passion for hormone-free high quality meats and organic veggies, but you may not know that we’re equally as passionate about celebrating life’s moments with friends and family. We hope you will find an opportunity to enjoy this delicious cake in the company of all of your favorite people sooner rather than later.

Hummingbird Cake

What you’ll need for the cake:

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 (8 oz) can crushed pineapple, undrained
  • 1 cup chopped pecans
  • 2 cups chopped bananas

What you’ll need for the cream cheese frosting:

  • 1 (8oz) package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 (16oz) package powdered sugar, sifted
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans

How to prepare cream cheese frosting:

  1. Combine cream cheese and butter, beating until smooth.
  2. Add powdered sugar and vanilla; beat until light and fluffy.

How to prepare Hummingbird Cake:

  1. Combine all-purpose flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and ground cinnamon in a large mixing bowl.
  2. Add eggs and oil, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened. Do not beat.
  3. Stir in vanilla, pineapple, 1 cup pecans and bananas.
  4. Spoon batter into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  6. Cool in pans 10 minutes.
  7. Remove from pans and cool completely.
  8. Spread frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.
  9. Sprinkle 1/2 cup chopped pecans on top. You can also combine the pecans in the actual frosting if you prefer.
  10. ENJOY!

Lots of love & happy eating,
Passanante’s Home Food Services

Recipe: Hot Chicken Salad

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This isn’t your average bridal shower chicken salad recipe. At Passanante’s Home Food Service we’re passionate about good, easy to prepare foods, and this recipe checks all the right boxes.

What we love most about this Hot Chicken Salad is the way it’s prepared; just toss the ingredients all together and bake — no real mess or fuss involved. Even better, since this recipe serves eight, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll have enough left over to eat it for a couple of meals. The only way to make this comfort food recipe any easier would be if you allowed Passanante’s food delivery service to bring every ingredient straight to your door, so when you’re ready to throw dinner together there’s no grocery store fuss to deal with.

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Hot Chicken Salad with almonds

What you’ll need (serves 8):

  • 4 cups cold cut up chicken chunks, cooked
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 2/3 cup finely chopped toasted almonds
  • 3/4 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup cheese, grated
  • 2 cups chopped celery
  • 4 hard boiled eggs, sliced
  • 3/4 cup cream of chicken soup
  • 2 teaspoon onion, finely minced
  • 2 pimentos, cut fine
  • 1 1/2 cups crushed potato chips

How to make Hot Chicken Salad:

Combine all ingredients except cheese, potato chips and almonds, in a large rectangular dish. Sprinkle cheese, potato chips, and almonds over the top and let sit overnight in a refrigerator. When ready, bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Serve with warm rolls and good wine. 🙂