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Page 16 ^Iortlanh (Observer July 22,2014 Slow Cooker Enchiladas An easy and delicious slow cooker recipe fo r busy school days. Once the prep work is done, you can set it and forget it fo r the next 5 to 7 hours! Original recipe makes 6 servings. Ingredients: Slow Cooker Cilantro Lime Chicken 77zw is a nice change from plain chicken tacos. The cilantro really adds a burst o f flavor to this recipe. Original recipe makes 6 servings. Ingredients: • • • • • 1(16 ounce) jar salsa 1 (1.25 ounce) package dry taco seasoning mix 1 lime, juiced 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro 3 pounds skinless, boneless chicken breast halves Directions: 1. Place the salsa, taco seasoning, lime juice, and cilantro into a slow cooker, and stir to combine. 2. Add the chicken breasts, and stir to coat with the salsa mixture. Cover the cooker, set to High, and cook until the chicken is very tender, about 4 hours. If desired, set cooker to Low and cook 6 to 8 hours. 3. Shred chicken with 2 forks to serve. • 1 pound ground turkey • 1 cup chopped onion • 3/4 cup chopped green bell pepper • 2 cloves garlic, minced • 1 (16 ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained • 1(15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained • 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers • 1/3 cup water • 11/2 teaspoons chili powder • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin • 1/4 teaspoon salt • 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper • 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese • 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese • 6 (6 inch) com tortillas Directions: 1. Crumble turkey into a large skillet over medium heat. Stir onion, bell pepper, and garlic into the turkey. Cook and stir until turkey is completely browned, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the kidney beans, black beans, diced tomatoes, water, chili powder, cumin, salt, and pepper; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, place a cover on the skillet, and simmer for 10 minutes. 2. Mix Cheddar cheese and Monterey jack cheese together in a bowl. 3. Layer about 3/4 cup o f the turkey mixture, 1 tortilla, and 1/2 cup the cheese mixture in the bottom o f a 5-quart slow cooker; repeat layers until ingredients are fully used, ending with a cheese layer. 4. Cook on Low until heated through, 5 to 7 hours. — THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGHSCHOOL ------------------------------------- P R E S E N T S : AU P LABOR DAT WEEKEND! AUG. 29/2014-SEPT. 1/2014 FOB TIME, LOCATION, fi MOBE DROBMBTION GO TO WWW.PILREUNIONS.COM Proceeds go toJ^P^&_Ed<ücJBarnetHr. Foundation! PRIZES AVAILABLE! Family Album — — — It often doesn't feel successful. Except that the struggle itself is, in some sense, the point o f the struggle. It feels oddly right to embody that struggle c o n t i n u e d f r o m page 9 in the context o f a rock musical that doesn't se lf sinking into deeper questions about quite fit into our usual ideas o f theatrical what a struggle it is to do anything really genre, with a multiracial cast o f people trying, authentic. The characters' loyalties shift in many cases, to work in a form that is a bit and all values are open to question: W hat o f a stretch. With each performance, I sus kind o f success can one really aim for as an pect it feels like kinks are being worked out, artist? A large audience? An internet fol but it’s hard to say if they are even kinks or lowing? An idea that is truly original? A just part o f the wondrous act o f creation that good brand? W hat is the point o f having is the very dilemma at issue. a fam ily or a long-term relationship? Inti Daniel T. Parker's perform ance as the m acy? The chance to replicate yourself? Brooklyn couple's precocious kid espe To shape another human being? W here is cially blew me away, and the m usic, par the room for artistic expression inside a ticularly the piercing lyrics by Stew, are fam ily? Is that im portant? W hat is a fam funny and often surprisingly deep. I am ily? W hat is an audience? Is an audience waiting for a cast album , particularly so I good for art? Or is your art better if it is can have another laugh at the kid's song underappreciated and m isunderstood? about a Ken doll who likes men and re As the characters wrestle with these and sents alw ays being stuck with Barbie ("I'd other questions, a kind o f energy builds prefer G.I. Joe/ but any able-bodied man- around them. The songs begin to go deeper. doll would surely d o /ju st som eone to love By the time these lines are sung, I was all the / cuz I am not set up to screw." way in: "She taught me a thing/about the There is a lot to adm ire here and — as balls you bring/and how it's probably worth with all conversations at the m argins and it every time/ to hit the fucking stage/and free playing with the whole idea o f m argins — your poem from its cage/and you don't give the struggle is, indeed, worth it. a damn if it rhymes./ I'm sayin' ifyou're gonna “Family Album ” plays through Aug. take it/ to a place where we can make it/ we've 31 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in gotta leave illusions behind. / And it might Ashland. For a fu ll schedule, visit get us in trouble, or burst somebody's bubble osfashland.org. Darleen Ortega is a judge / but it's probably worth it every time.' on the Oregon Court o f Appeals and the Those lines are earned. What has played first woman o f color to serve in that ca out on the stage is the struggle itself. The pacity. Her movie review column Opin journey o f this play is the struggle for ionated Judge appears regularly in The authentic expression, in art and in rela Portland Observer. You can find her movie tionships. It is hard work, and it is messy. blog at opinionatedjudge.blogspot.com.
