On Jul 22, 8:05*am, FERRANTE > wrote:
> Featured Recipe
> GREEN "ENCHILADA" CHICKEN CASSEROLE
>
> Ingredients
> 4 cups cubed cooked chicken or turkey
> 2 teaspoons Seasoning for Tacos
> 8 ounces cream cheese
> 1 tablespoon minced chives, optional
> 7 ounce can Green Mexican Salsa
> 4 ounce can chopped green chiles
> 6 ounces Monterey jack cheese, shredded
> 4 green onions, chopped
>
> Cooking Instructions
> Grease an 11x7" baking pan. Put the chicken in the pan and toss with
> the taco seasoning to coat. Soften the cream cheese and whisk well
> with the chives and green sauce in a medium bowl. Stir in the chiles.
> Pour the sauce evenly over chicken. You can mix it in if you like, but
> it's not necessary. Top with the cheese. Bake at 350º 25 minutes,
> until hot and bubbly. Remove from the oven and immediately sprinkle
> with the green onions.
>
This one hits a couple of pet peeves. [Rant Mode On] First is
naming. It's called enchilada casserole, but then since it is
obviously not enchiladas they put the word in quotes. What does that
mean? Gosh, my lack of imagination extends not only to the recipe but
to the name, too?
Secondly, every casserole ends with "top with grated cheese." Why?
It's often, as here, completely superfluous. A salsa verde baked
chicken dish is pretty good; smothering it in cheese simply makes it
taste like the other 40 casseroles you make. [Rant Mode Off] -aem