Homemade Chicken Suizas

Oh. Man.

 I'm moving away so I had to think about how to re-create my favorite dish at Mexico in Atlantic City: The Chicken Enchildas Verde aka Chicken Suizas. I saw some very elaborate recipes. Here's the one I came up with. It's gluten free, hormone free, soy free.

1 large roasted chicken breast (organic) shredded (or veggie burgers inside, or black beans)
a package sprouted corn Ezekial corn tortillas
one package Applegate Farms Monteray Jack Cheese slices
one large jar green salsa or green enchiladas verde sauce (somehow I like the salsa better than the Frontera green chile sauce, but it's totally fine too).

 Heat oven to 350F Pour some of the sauce in a glass pie plate.

Roll some shredded chicken and part of a slice of the cheese in a tortilla.
Put it seam side down in the plate. Make six total.
Pour the rest of the salsa/sauce over the rolled up tortillas.
Put the remaining cheese over the top. (I think somehow that particular package of Monteray Jack is the exact right amount of cheese. Last night I tried a 12 ounce package of shredded Monteray Jack--"Hormone Free"--and it's a bit saltier and well, it's just too much cheese.)

Put the plate in the oven for 30 minutes. Let cool for 10.

I ate this for dinner. Then I ate the rest for lunch. Good with beans and rice, or eat a salad for Pete's sake.

Thyroid Sources

A Gluten-Free diet made my antibodies go way down, very quickly, after I was officially diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Better Batter flour is the best alternaflour I've found. I buy it off amazon.com. Kale salad is pretty tasty. Actually, I just steam organic kale, throw it in a bowl, put some Celtic Salt on it, lemon and olive oil and some of the dried kale powder from the health food store. Makes me feel good! Read this and I like what it says about adrenals being connected to the thyroid. Restoration and self-care are good ideas too. Another thing to think about is the ecology of your digestive system. If you take anti-biotics pretty regularly, it just doesn't help your digestion. I drink kefir almost every day (no sugar) over fruit or with some nuts in it. That's what I got for now. I'll post more as soon as I come up with something tasty.

Chicken and Kale in Tomato Sauce alla Pappligna

1-2 grilled chicken breasts in lemon and olive oil, diced (or a can of garbanzos)
half a head of organic kale, ripped into bite sized pieces and washed
1 24 oz can tomatoes chopped
one small onion, diced
olive oil
bay leaf
basil
pinch of sugar
pinch of Celtic salt/regular salt

Organic brown rice

Now that I'm on this infernal thyroid health diet, I've had to get clever. And what is annoying is that I'm having an allergic reaction to this meal, but I usually eat all of these things with no effect except I've never eaten this organic rice before. Gah.

Brown the onion in a generous amount of olive oil (3T) until clear.
Add the can of tomatoes, the juice from the can, the bay leaf, the basil, pinch of sugar and pinch of salt.
Let stew for a while.

Add the chicken (or can of garbanzos) and let it all cook down for about 20 minutes.

When you are about two minutes from eating, add the kale and let it wilt a bit until it's bright green and soft.

Serve over brown rice. This is really tasty. I wolfed it down when I was feeling really bad. Now I feel good, but itchy.