Weekend Supper Club, Round 2, Week 3, Chicken 'n Chili Nachos by Julie

Ingredients:

2-4 frozen boneless chicken breasts - (bag of frozen boneless, skinless breasts in the meat section)
1 bag of tortilla chips (scoops work really well with small kids)
1 bottle bbq sauce - flavoring of your choice.
1 can hormel chili with beans.
1 jar cheese dip - I used tostitios smooth and cheesy dip.
Sour cream - optional
Diced tomatoes - optional
Green onion - optional

Directions:

Place frozen chicken breasts in crock pot, top with bottle of bbq sauce, set on low and cook for 4-5 hours, or until chicken is cooked through and can easily shred.
Shred chicken
heat chili on the stove, along with the cheese sauce, place in 2 different pots, cooking until both are heated through.
Place whole bag of chips onto Large plate and top with cheese sauce.
Place shredded bbq chicken on top of chips and cheese, pouring the chili over the chicken.
Top with your desired amount of sour cream, diced tomatoes and green onions.

Enjoy!!!!!

My husband and kids love, love these nachos,(really my kids love anything involving chips...).  I hope you all enjoy as well.

Ingredients you may not have in your pantry:

Weekend Supper Club, Round 2, Week 2: Ice Cream Ball Dessert

This is a really simple dessert and I can't believe I had never made it before but I think you will really enjoy it.  I attended a high-end fundraiser luncheon at River Oaks Country Club benefiting one of the local hospitals here in Houston.  The lunch was great and as usual, heavy for lunch however, they brought out this fabulous, simple dessert that not only looked beautiful and elegant, it was light and perfect after a heavy lunch and/or dinner.

Ingredients:

Ice Cream - any flavor you like, I do think the white ice creams make a prettier presentation than the chocolate because of the contrast, but it really doesn't matter
1 bottle of Smuckers Magic Shell Ice Cream Topper - there are several flavors of this also, I used regular chocolate
Pepperidge Farm Pirouette cookies, also choices here, there are lots of flavors and even other makers of this round rolled cookie, it's just there for the effect so pick what you would like.
Your choice of an ice cream nutty topping or crushed almonds (I used a praline topping from Pampered Chef that Carla had given me).

Directions:

Use a large ice cream scoop to make a medium to large perfectly rounded ball of ice cream, one for each person that you will be serving.  Place them in the freezer on a cookie sheet or flat dish lined with waxed paper to keep it from sticking.  I also covered the top with waxed paper just for protection.  This is where all the work is done ahead of time.  When it's time to serve dessert, pull the balls out of the freezer and put in individual dishes, slowly drizzle the Magic Shell Topper on top in order to cover the entire ball (Magic Shell cannot be stored in the refrig and must be shaken well before each use). Immediately sprinkle your ice cream topping on top before the shell sets up and add the two cookies on the side for pizazz.  I tried to drizzle a little chocolate for decor but it didn't turn out very pretty so I'm anxious to see what you guys do. 

Side note:  If you don't have any cute ice cream dishes they have some really cute pedestal clear ones at Wal-Mart for $1.50, definitely worth the buy.  Have fun and I can't wait to see your pictures.

Ice Cream Extras

Ice Cream Ball

Julie's Ice Cream (and 2 for the babies)

Carla's Ice Cream in Crystal

Easter Recollections

I was giving some thought to Easter food and traditions and decided it would be a good week to have Weekend Supper Club Vacation.  Easter is such a traditional day of eating, it is not necessarily a good time to introduce a new dish to your family.  Instead of sharing a recipe I thought it would be fun to share an Easter memory, tradition, or story. 

I was trying to think back on all my Easter memories and decide, if I had to pick one, which would it be....so I picked three:

When I was a little girl my Mom and Dad used to give us traditional Easter baskets, as well as a new Easter dress, shoes, hat and gloves for church. They would sometimes, also give us a real, live, baby chick (or baby duck).  I can close my eyes and remember how fun it was to hold that little chirping ball of fur that wanted nothing more than to run away from me and poop in my hand... but I didn't care...The bad part of course was that I don't recall more than the first day it arrived, so I'm not really sure what ever happened sto them after Easter. I think that's what everyone did back then (50 years ago).  My parents were both from farming families and the birth of the baby chicks/ducks represented Spring. In the country it was a time when hundreds of little baby chicks were running around on new green grass celebrating the beginning of warm weather.

Second, when JJ was about 3 years old I bought 2 baby chicks for him on Easter.  My kids were saying, "what the heck are we gonna do with baby chicks? you know they're going to grow up and poop all over the place!".  We had a lot of fun with those baby chicks and JJ loved them for the 3-4 weeks we had them (we gave them to a friend of Julie's that had chickens).

Third, when Jen was a little girl, probably getting ready to turn 6, we hid Easter eggs for her around our house in Tucson.  We lived in the foothills area and were surrounded by beautiful desert plants (no yard or grass).  We hid the eggs for Jen around the outside of the house, among whatever small piece of greenery or sparse plantings we could.  When she began to look for them she peeked behind a small green bush and stirred up a small nest of baby desert cottontails.  She thought it was the Easter Bunny of course and we couldn't have planned it any better if we tried.  I can still see her face when she saw those baby bunnies lying there.

Traditions are so different and interesting for everyone, I would love for you to take the time and share a story that comes to mind of an Easter in your past.  I will post my next recipe at the beginning of next week and we will resume WSC.  Thanks so much for playing along with me here.  I love you guys and Happy Easter!