Fried Food and Simple Chicken Tortilla Soup
Tony made me breakfast yesterday morning – I can only tell you that the french toast is savory – we are trying to come up with a recipe for the Nature’s Pride recipe contest so I can win a trip to FoodBuzz’s 2nd annual fest in San Francisco. All I can tell you is that it was delicious!
I wasn’t leaving to meet my mom until noon, so I whipped up a pot of chicken tortilla soup – I had it on my brain since having it at the restaurant for lunch on Saturday that was so bad.
Simple Chicken Tortilla Soup (printer friendly version here)
Makes 10, 1.5 cup servings: (189 calories, 2.9 fat, 22.7 carbs, 4.9 fiber and 18.5 protein)
Ingredients
| 8 | cups chicken broth |
| 14 | ounce tomato sauce |
| 2 | cups chicken breast, cooked and chopped |
| 1 | cup corn |
| 1 | cup black beans |
| 14 | ounce tomatoes, canned with chiles (I used Rotel) |
| 3 | corn tortillas, chopped |
Directions
- Put chicken broth, tomato sauce and canned tomatoes with chiles and using a stick blender, puree.
- Add remaining ingredients. Adding the chopped corn tortillas to the soup will help thicken the soup.
- Simmer for 15 minutes. Serve with a wedge of lime, crispy tortilla stripes or sour cream.
the Rotel tomatoes have just enough spice. If I had cilantro I would have added that at the end
Then we were off!
I have no idea whose chop stick hand that is pointing to the sign!
tons of people
Not only was there a food tent, but it was a carnival and craft fair too – probably at least 200+ craft booths. Our first order of business was food!
The first thing I got was Bang Bang Shrimp from Bonefish Grill. Holy cow, was this good! Lightly battered shrimp tossed in a spicy sauce – I am definitely going to have to find a copycat recipe of this.
Then we just walked around for a while. It was such a nice day!
Nana and Hannah
Nana and me 
I found this booth that had poems for your name – its sometimes hard to find a Beth!
turns out I am "very special." Maybe short bus special?
And it was all I could do not to get funnel cake.
Our next food pick was the famous chicken fingers from Village Tavern, served with a delicious honey mustard dipping sauce.
And chicken tacos from the same place:
And we I may have ended the day with fried cheese curds!
All told, we probably walked around for about 3 hours – I had to take this picture though – Tony is scared of clowns!
he was pretty scary looking!
For dinner I just made cheezy beefs . . . I had to continue the fried food theme of the day!
Oh, and I forgot to thank my co-worker for a new hot sauce in my rotation:
habanero baby! I think I'll use this to spice up broths in soup - a little of this goes a long way!
Off to enjoy my day with Tony and Hannah – I’ll be updating the 101 days of summer later on this afternoon, I am still waiting for a few emails.
tortilla soups always seem way too complicated to make, but yours looks very doable! and delicious! love the pics of you guys. hahah i looove your sauce!!
I am salivating. lol I want all of it…right about NOW!
That was a scary clown! The chicken fingers looked delish, it looks like they were beer battered? And if you come up with a copy cat recipe for the shrimp, I’ll try it!
Glad you guys had a great day!! Awesome weather!
I love chicken tortilla soup! Your recipe sounds wonderful!! I definitely want to make this once it cools down a bit more here in GA!
Looks like a fun day. My belly hurts just looking at all that fried food. I can’t seem to handle it like I used to which is probably a good thing.
I just posted my final challenge update at http://finallyfiguringitout.blogspot.com/2010/09/101-days-of-summer-challenge-finale.html
Thanks for keeping me motivated. I guess I should jump on Charlie’s train now. If I can only work up the courage to take a picture ….
Have fun spending the day with Tony and Hannah.
Happy Labor Day!
That sauce has your name all over it! Too effin’ funny!
And what was up with that clown? He WAS scary looking!
The tortilla soup looks awesome!!
We came back from the fair and I still need to get a post about all the junk that we ate. I was able to resist the cheese curds!! That’s about ALL that I resisted though!
Wow, that soup looks good! I need to make it today, it’s cold and rainy here.
Ha! My daughter (she’s 31 now) is afraid of clowns too!
You think Beth is hard to find on things? Try finding Marianne spelled correctly! Now that is a challenge.
Love all the fair food. Can you believe I’ve never had, nor seen, a funnel cake? I don’t think we have them up here at our fairs. But I hear they are super popular down there in the US.
We have boneheads here and they used to have that bang bang shrimp and serve it with an asian slaw as an appetizer.
Love the sauce
What is cheese curds? I have read it in so many blogs and asked some people at work that grew up here and they had no clue.
Cheese curds are the pieces of cheese that rise to the top in cheese making – its a love hate thing, either you love it or you hate it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curds
I’ll have to tell my customer’s about deep fried curds….if they go for them I’ll make some extra $
haha nice name for the new sauce! haha
The soup looks great – love the short ingredient list!
Great pics of you and the fam!
Know what’s harder to find than Beth poems? Jeff license plates.
That looks like so much fun. I love food festivals and craft fairs and all of that stuff.
Holy shit, that clown looks like a convict or something..
Gross.
Oops, I never emailed you – I suck!
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Ah, I just realized that in taking my computer break over the long weekend, I never sent you a 101 update. Sorry!! If you still want a final report, let me know…
I love “Tastes.” We have one coming up in our area this weekend. I’ve already decided if the Mr. doesn’t want to go, I’m going alone.
I’m with Tony. Clowns suck.
From one Beth to another…sometimes I feel like a short bus special!
Sounds like a very fun day! Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I just read that you have to walk 11-1/2 miles to walk off a serving of cheese curds. Eleven and a half miles!!!! The Minnesota State Fair just ended and that was in the food section of the Star Tribune last week. I believe I have had my last cheese curd.
Oh my goodness! Wow, definitely isn’t worth the 11 1/2 miles! Thanks for the info though!
Wow. That really is a scary clown. I don’t think he’s smiling under that makeup. Angry clowns are extra-scary.
The food looks so good. how can you go wrong? But the hot sauce stole my heart. I used to collect hot sauces. They’re in a moving box somewhere that has yet to be unpacked. My favorite was one strapped to a voodoo doll complete with pins. You gotta love their names too. I used to make my own hot sauce from home grown habaneros and bottle it as Christmas gifts.
A gal after my own heart! I have a recipe to make homemade Tabasco, just haven’t found the right peppers yet!
I love the bang bang shrimp from Bonefish! I did do a remake….a bit healthier as I baked the shrimp in panko, but it still came out great!
that sauce is pretty FUCKING hilarious.
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Dang girl – I wish my husband would make me a breakfast that looked that good. I’m jealous
I seriously hope you win so Andy and I can meet you at Foodbuzz!
Holy shit. Clowns freak me out too! LOL
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