I am a Dictator, My House is a War Zone

Happy Saturday Everyone...wait...today is Saturday right? Anywho, the title of my post today may seem a little odd and everyone might be thinking I'm crazy. I'm not, and I'll explain why.  The main taker-upper of my time today has been laundry, making the feature recipe, and being a dictator. Yes, that's right I said dictator...in a video game of course!  Tropico 4...be careful for anyone who plays it...its addictive. Basically its a build your own town, rule the people, create jobs, and buildings, entertainment for your subjects etc type of game. The reason my house is a war zone because my beloved, David, and I both like to talk to our games, I'm sure that our neighbors think we are insane, random shouts of "Kill him, Shoot, Shoot, Shoot!!", "I"m going to blow you up", and "Whoo, my people love me", "Yeah baby! Just exported $122,345 to other countries, who's a good dictator, oh wait me!" come from between the two of us. David has been playing this shoot em up war type game, needless to say I am tempted to just take a recording of the two of us playing our separate games at the same time, all in the name of entertaining the  masses. The cats think we are crazy and just walk around on their silent ninja paws hoping that we won't hear any trouble that they are trying to get in...like trying to break into the cabinet that holds the car food, and the other cabinet that holds their treats...like I said, we don't spoil them at all...haha!

Anyways the meaning of me telling you about Tropico is that is inspired the recipe for today. During the game its this music which sounds like a super happy fiesta music mixed with a super happy island music...its a combo that gets stuck into your head and you find yourself humming it in the shower. Its pitiful. Okay, sorry enough of the rambling, now on to the recipe! (I know all of you are absolutely on the very edge of your seat in suspense, calm down, I'm getting there!) 


Chicken Tortilla Soup (in the crock-pot, yes, again the crock pot)

Ingredients
1 lb. Chicken Breast trimmed
15oz can sweet whole orn kernals, draned
15oz can diced tomatoes, canned
5c chicken stock (broth)
3/4C onion, chopped
3/4C Green Pepper, chopped
1 Serrano Pepper, Minced
2 cloves garlic minced
1/4 tsp chili powder
1/12 tsp salt divided
1tsp ground pepper, divided
Monterey Jack Cheese, shredded
Seasoned Tortilla strips (we are going to use squished up tortilla chips)

Directions

Add the first 9 ingredients to your slow cooker/crock pot along with 1tsp salt and 3/4 tsp of ground pepper. Cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 8 hours.

Before you serve it, remove the chicken and shred it up, again just as yesterday, I'm going to use two forks but you can shred it up any way you want it. You also want to season the chicken with the remaining salt and pepper you have. 1/2 tsp of salt and 1/4 tsp of pepper. place the chicken back into the crock pot and stir gently. Serve it up!

Soup will keep in the fridge for several days and you can also freeze it. I hope you enjoy, feel free to post any comments about how you liked it or send an email with a picture of how yours turned out to landoffooandkitties@gmail.com! As always, thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed!