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^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:
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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