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The Sarcastic Blonde

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Lifestyle, recipe

healthy crack of the week :: skinnytaste slow cooker soups

January 20, 2015

healthy crack of the week :: skinnytaste slow cooker soups
AsI said yesterday, I have been loving my Skinnytaste cookbook. 
Today, I’ll be sharing TWO soup recipes that we made in the last week! 
p.s. yes. these are both mexican themed soups.
we have a bit of a mexican obsession in this household 🙂 it can’t be stopped. 
The Santa Fe Chicken could not have been easier to make.
I made it when I had been awake for all of 3 minutes, and other than dropping an entire can of chicken broth on the floor, and then spilling the can of black beans, it took mere minutes.
…. clean up took a bit longer…. and black beans went down the sleeves of my all white fuzzy robe…. it was HIGH-larious except that it was not. 
it tasted even better the next day on top of brown rice (some of the liquid had evaporated so it was the perfect fix). 

this photo was from the next days leftovers, so some of the liquid had evaporated 🙂
I served it over brown rice and topped it with some cheese and scallions. 

Slow Cooker Santa Fe Chicken 
recipe from Skinnytaste

Ingredients: 


24 oz (1 1/2) lbs chicken breast
14.4 oz can diced tomatoes with mild green chilies
15 oz can black beans, reduced sodium 
2 cups frozen corn
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
14.4 oz can fat free chicken broth
3 scallions, chopped
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp cayenne pepper (to taste)
salt to taste

Directions: 
    Combine chicken broth, beans (drained), corn, tomatoes, cilantro, scallions, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, cayenne pepper and salt in the crock pot. Seasonchicken breast with salt and lay on top.  

    Cook on low for 10 hours or on high for 6 hours. Half hour before serving, removechicken and shred. Return chicken to slow cooker and stir in. Adjust salt and seasoning to taste. Serve over rice or tortillas and your favorite toppings.




    Calorie information : 
    Servings: 8 servings • Size: 1 cup • Old Points: 3 pts • Points+: 4 pts

    Calories: 190 • Fat: 1.5 g • Fiber: 5.6 g • Carbs: 23.1 g • Protein: 21 g






    Next up ::  Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Soup
    The Chicken Enchilada Soup was a wonderful healthy soup, that was fine without all the delicious toppings when I had it for lunch at work.  However, it’s 10x better for dinner once we added some cheese, scallions, diced avocado and a big dollop of 0% Plain Greek Yogurt (I promise in this dish it tastes just like sour cream, and for making creamy and rich it was a delicious necessity!) 


    Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Soup 

    recipe via skinnytaste 


    Ingredients:




    2 tsp olive oil
    1/2 cup onion, chopped
    3 cloves garlic, minced
    3 cups low sodium fat-free chicken broth
    8 oz can tomato sauce
    1-2 tsp chipotle chili in adobo sauce (or more to taste)
    1/4 cup chopped cilantro (plus more for garnish)
     15 oz can black beans, rinsed and drained
    14.5 oz can petite diced tomatoes
    2 cups frozen corn
    1 tsp cumin
    1/2 tsp dried oregano
    2 8 oz skinless chicken breasts (16 oz total)
    1/4 cup chopped scallions, for topping
    3/4 cup shredded reduced fat cheddar cheese
    fat free sour cream (optional) I use 0% Plain Greek Yogurt 



    Directions:



    Heat oil in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Add onion and garlic and sauté until soft, 3-4 minutes. Slowly add the chicken broth, tomato sauce and chipotle adobo sauce and bring to a boil. Add cilantro and remove from heat. Pour into crock pot.


    To the crockpot, add drained beans, diced tomatoes, corn, cumin, oregano and stir.Add the chicken breasts; cover and cook on low heat for 4-6 hours.


    Remove chicken and shred with two forks. Add chicken back into the soup, adjust salt and cumin to taste. Serve in bowls and top with fat free sour cream, cheese, scallions and cilantro. You can also top with avocado or crushed tortilla chips. Enjoy!



    Servings: 6 • Serving Size: 1 1/2 cups + cheese • Old Points: 5 pts • Points+: 7 pts

    Calories: 260.9 • Fat: 6.6 g • Protein: 25.4 g • Carb: 29.9 g • Fiber: 6.7 g • Sugar: 4.1 g



    Sodium: 572 mg (without salt)



    what are some of your favorite healthy blogs or cookbooks? I’d love to know some of your favorite recipes to try out! 







    by TheSarcasticBlonde 
    Lifestyle, weekend recap

    weekend things + monogram monday

    January 19, 2015

    weekend things + monogram monday
    hope you all had a great weekend!! 


    kevin harts SNL episode was one of the best so far this season (so many this season have been so, so bad).  I love me some SNL.

    as always, kate mckinnon KILLS IT as beiber. 
      I adore her. 



    the skinny taste cookbook has been on heavy rotation for the past week. I’ve never made so many recipes from a cookbook so quickly (probably because Im usually cooking from my BFF Ina’s cookbooks and don’t let myself make recipe after recipe from there or else our waistlines will suffer). 
    don’t tell ina I just said that, it is a sin. 

    there are so many recipes earmarked that I need to get to!
    so far I’ve made two tasty slow cooker meals, and we also made skinny sweet potato fries and cauliflower mashed potatoes with our steaks last night for dinner! 
    recipes to come this week or next! 
    weekend outfits : 
    dinner at one of our favorite casual italian spots, Frasca
      // forever 21 popover top // 
    I decided wine will be part of all of my outfit posts since it is the most important 🙂 
    this one was Chloe Pinot Grigio in the cutest bottle ever that a friend brought over with dinner this week and I loved it! 

     Frasca is in Lakeview and is one of our absolute favorite places.  We love parking up at the bar, having some drinks and some yummy food.
    Kip always gets calamari, but we also tried the Goat Cheese Fonduate and it was incredible.
    Their pizzas are always to die for. we had their special for the night, a brussel sprouts pizza with bacon. um. no explanation needed. 


    Saturday night we went out for the KU basketball game with friends
    wait, wheres my wine?
    oh phew here it is. 
    I love, love this nordstrom pleione blouse (great price and so comfy!)
    it comes in solids and other prints as well, this pink version being my favorite
    and it looks great when you get home from the bar and are digging through the pantry for treats with your husband ….. whoops. 
    Sunday, I watched Parenthood all day, 
    while some soup cooked up in the slow cooker for the week.
    don’t worry.  I diversified with an episode of Project Runway All Stars, two trashy magazines, and a couple chapters from Liane Moriarty The Last Anniversary.
    oh. and lots and lots of Pinterest. 

    Netflix is SO judgey.  ugh,RUDE. know your audience, Netflix! (image via my instagram account) 
     Oh, and I can’t forget to share Sundays (all day long) sexy ensemble.
    // RL monogrammed jammies // 
    I mean….. my husband is. so. damn. lucky.  

    a monogrammed favorite for the week:
    my tory burch sandals with initials to personalize them. 
    they arrived the day that we left for the caymans, so sadly i want unable to wear them, and since I live in freezing cold chicago, I won’t be wearing them for quite some time. 

    how cute is the shoe bag they came with!? I’m like the child that likes the box better than the gift inside of it. 

    I have a total white-girl-first-world-problem question, so prepare to laugh your head off.
    I keep looking at them thinking “wait, are people going to think my shoes are trying to spell Tory, for Tory Burch, when they see these, or think its my initials”
    and then my second thought is “ew… i have really ugly feet so I hope people don’t look at my feet long enough to realize there are even letters on there!”
    but then I’m like “WAITTTTT but I WANT them to look long enough to be thinking “oh my gosh so cute she has her initials on her shoes'”
    and then the vicious cycle continues.  
    when your feeling crazy at some point today, just think about me and feel better about yourself. 



    I can’t tell if I want to switch them out for the red color, but that is the beauty of nordstrom – I can wait an eternity and decide when I feel like it. 
    {im also in love with these tory burch sandals, and my favorite price point of under $100) 


    hopefully most of you are off work today.  I am not…. so have a glass of vino for me.
    woof. mondays. 



    by TheSarcasticBlonde 
    Lifestyle

    :: happy weekend ::

    January 17, 2015

    :: happy weekend ::

    via


    I completed my errands a day early so that tomorrow can be a pure veg-fest. 
    netflix marathon, meet me on the couch at 9 am 11:30 am sharp! 
    I finished up my most dreaded task : grocery shopping for the week.  
    To properly celebrate being a successful human, I will now being popping a bottle of prosecco, standing in front of my closet for an hour, throwing things on the floor after trying them on and immediately dismissing them, and doing a little drinking with friends. 


    by TheSarcasticBlonde 
    Lifestyle

    little things.

    January 16, 2015

    little things.
    :: little things :: 

    I made my first recipe from the Skinny Taste Cookbook last night and loved it! 
    I’ll share next week and am planning on another meal for Sunday too! 

    Emily Blunt was my favorite look from the critics choice
    I did not like Kiera Knightly (once again) at all and really didn’t like Jennifer Aniston. 
    she has such a great body and this does nothing for it and doesn’t show skin in the best way. 
    she says, as she sits in her lululemon leggings and oversized hoodie on the couch. 


    the picture I instagrammed of me in my RahRah Designs monogrammed bikini was re-grammed on their instagram account! 

    I can’t tell you how in love I am with this bikini, & since you all probably know my monogram obsession, I know I don’t have to! 
    they are having their BIGGEST sale ever, with everything 50% off right now, so go check it out! 

    the catalogues from the previous homeowners keep on coming!
    this weeks bloomingdales resort catalogue had me drooling and dreaming of warm weather

    tibi striped top // tibi skirt // tory burch striped floral dress 
    // silk maxi //

    // crossover top //  obsessed with this under $80 top 
    same print, but an adorable // romper //


    nikki reed and ian somerhalder are engaged after 6 months of dating.

    nikki, sweetie.  I think you did this…. quite recently… and it ended like, um, 6 months ago in divorce when you married the american idol dude after like 2 months.
    SIMMER DOWN. 

    tory burch’s new emerson collection of handbags is to die for. 

     emerson messenger //  emerson tote  // emerson satchel 
    I think one of these may have to be my purse splurge of the year. 
    her bags are always incredible!!! if only they had the c.wonder pricing……. 


    Gwyneth Paltrow did the Howard Stern show this week.

    loved her dress as a presenter last weekend


    I was reading the article with the “11 relevations” from the interview and kind of want to listen to whole thing….. #loser
    I have plans to FINALLY finish SERIAL today though whilst cleaning my house.  Four day work weeks and having Fridays off are my lifesaver. 


    happy weekend! 


    by TheSarcasticBlonde 
    coffee talk, Lifestyle

    coffee talk

    January 15, 2015

    coffee talk
    discuss amongst ya-selves…….. 

    :: THE BACHELOR ::
    first of all, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS LIPSTICK LADIES. 
     second of all, this season they just drink so much and all get so rowdy. 
    every diary confessional they are all hammered and a hot damn mess.

    it’s wonderful television.
    I seriously want to be a producer or something on this show to be the ones filming these diary confessionals.
     I mean, Chris.  {sigh} what is this? 

    Kale’s Mom
    the things these girls choose for ABC to use with their advertisement is astonishing.
    (see : last weeks coffee talk for Taras)
    and note to Kale’s Mom’s Mom : MAYBE AFTER YOU WALKED IN YOU SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THEM.
    Is their date real life? Am I really hearing these things come out of her mouth? 
    Do you believe in aliens
    Like…. I love big noses.
    the zinger : the totally normal and mature way of informing her male suitor that she was a son. 
    “SOOOOO….I LIKE HAVE A KID.  YEAH.”
    oh my goodness….. sweetie….. even the way you just said that is just horrifying.
    chris corrects her like an adult should to a child and says “You have a child?”
    and then prince farming shows us what he promised us week one with his selections : HE SURE KNOWS HOW TO PICK EM.
    ROSE FOR KALE’S MOM.  DUH. they have “so much in common”.
    mmmhmmm. yep. okay.

    crazy chick.  she is so much crazier than anyone could have ever imagined. this is amazing.  she must be on pills. or off of her pills? it truly is the only explanation. 
    annnnnnd…… wait for it…… 
    ROSE FOR CRAZY PANTS. 
    I’m really hoping its the producers making that happen, but I don’t think they would have made her keep Kale’s Mom, so I’m thinking he’s just that stupid and is actually choosing on his own to keep these people. 

    later….when I’m clawing my eyeballs out in disgust for watching at the cocktail party for the rose ceremony…. 

    Kale’s Mom is SO jealous of the Promiscuous-Virgin. 
    you know it took every ounce of my being to name her ‘promiscuous-virgin’ instead of something else……. ughhhh…….. 
    Kale’s Mom :  “Guys LOVE to take your virginity”.
    oh my lord…… someone take this little girl off this show….. 
     “I wish I could use the ‘I’m a virgin’ line, but I have a kid, so it’s like a dead giveaway!”
    YOU’RE SO SMART, KALE’S MOM. HE WOULD TOTALLY KNOW. 
    via

    Promiscuous-Virgin has a princess jasmine belly button ring. She tells Chris “you have to rub it to make a wish.”  
    And then she’ll tackle you with her tongue.
    i can’t. ew. it’s just so gross. 

    (one of) the drunk girl(s) TOTALLY CALLS HIM OUT and puts on a bunch of horrifying lipstick and says “well you kiss all the girls with the lipstick”.
    YOU GO DRUNK GLEN COCO.  TWO MORE SHOTS FOR YOU.
    did you see his face after that britt girl made out with his face on the zombie date? it was like fuchsia everywhere? they must have to fix his face for 10 minutes before he goes back to the group date! 

    anyways, I wish that chris’s criteria for a woman was everyones when I was single,
     because getting a man would be easy as pie. 
    drink a lot, air your natural crazy for all to see, talk about dumb crap all day. 
    I would have hit it out of the ballpark people.  Pah-reach. 


    jackhole(s) of the week :

    ALL OF YOU IDIOTS ON THE BACHELOR WEARING THAT LIPSTICK WHEN YOURE TRYING TO GET A GUY TO MAKE OUT WITH YOU! 
    watching this show in high def, britts lips literally jump off my TV screen and make my eyes cross.
    GOOD LORD. 

    also, the girl making/the producers airing the hairy tush comments about the other contestant on national TV.

    HOWEVER, I am VERY disturbed as to why they keep BLURRING this bikini, so WHAT is going on???!!!! if they are blurring it because of a hairy tush I am seriously MORTIFIED for this human and VERY CONFUSED as to how one doesn’t do something about this before going on national TV.
    it’s gonna get UGLY at the women tell all…. and by ugly….. I mean 

    ew. I’m sorry to end on that note.  
    and actually sorry, not sorry I’m not sorry. 

    as always, ignore my own blatant grammatical errors whilst I make fun of others poor grammar during coffee talk on a weekly basis.  
    #hypocrite  #sorryimnotsorry
    I write these posts late at night while simultaneously watching Bravo, taking snapchats of my snoring husband, and making to do lists of everything I was supposed to do and didn’t do that day and likely won’t do the next day either.  or the day after that.





    by TheSarcasticBlonde 
    fashion, Lifestyle

    wishlist wednesday :: all under $100

    January 14, 2015

    wishlist wednesday :: all under $100
    lusts for the week……
    all under $100 !!! 
       
    // lace insert swing dress //

    // brushstripe sweater //  this looks so soft and cozy! and is slightly longer in the back which is always more flattering on me

    // mini shopper // on sale for $30 ! 

    // embellished tee // chanel-y vibe for a channel-y price! 

    // red wrap dress // perfect for a valentines date night

    // twist t shirt // all day, every day

    // pink lattice romper //  just so damn cute I can’t stand it. 

    // lace shift dress // perfect pick for you engaged ladies!)
    another great white bridal option & another cute white dress

    // hangry sweatshirt // I think we all need this one. 

    and a few splurge loves : 
    milly dress // equipment blouse //  theory tank // finders keepers striped skirt  

    also, I ordered the super cute striped dress I posted about last week, and alas, it was a miss.  much much shorter and tighter than I thought (I tried two sizes so I’m telling myself thats the style not my holiday season enlarged ass…riiiiiiiight) and the fabric just feels cheap. womp womp.


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