My thoughts on Food Magazines and Baked Chicken Fajitas
24 Mar
I don’t buy food magazines very often. Those things are so expensive. I have a hard time paying $10 for a monthly publication which is mostly ads and recipes I will never cook. I also have a hard time throwing them away. I mean I paid $10 for that thing! I am keeping it! Which is why I had every issue of Gourmet magazine published in the last 4 years at my house that I threw (most) of away when we moved. I have holiday magazines from 7 years ago that I still cook out of for the holidays for crying out loud.
But, there are times when give in. Times when I simply can’t help myself and give in to the temptation of a new magazine and then hide it from my husband so he won’t give me that look that says’ “Do you really need another cooking magazine?” My defense, of course, is that it’s research for new blog fodder.
You guys back me up if he asks, okay?
What I find, is that the magazine I most often come home with is a publication of Taste of Home Magazine. Which is funny because my mother and my late grandmother have had a subscription to that magazine since it began it’s tear-out recipe cards and a fairly difficult toothpick hunt within it’s pages ( I never could find that dang toothpick) As far as cooking magazine’s go, I feel like you get the most bang for your buck. There aren’t any ads and the recipes are realistic for family meals. You don’t have to wade through a bunch of fluff about the new stylish whisk that just came out or what shade of Jello best matches your eye color. It’s just recipes. Good, solid recipes. I’m not getting bamboozled. I’m getting every penny of what I am paying for. I appreciate that.
Baked Chicken Fajitas
adapted from Taste of Home Magazine
serves 4 – 6
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips
1 (15 oz) can diced tomatoes
1 (4 oz) can diced green chilies
1 medium onion, sliced
1 large bell pepper, seeded and sliced
2 T vegetable oil
2 t. chili powder
2 t. cumin
1/2 t. garlic powder
1/2 t. dried oregano
1/4 t. salt
12 flour tortillas, warmed to serve
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Grease a 13×9 baking dish. Mix together chicken, tomatoes, chilies, peppers, and onions in the dish.
In a small bowl combine the oil and spices. Drizzle the spice mixture over the chicken and toss to coat.
Bake uncovered for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are tender. Serve with warmed tortillas and enjoy!!
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your photos are mouth-watering jodie. i too have a hard time throwing away those cooking magazines….i have an easier time buying them, thus, quite a stack….i will bring them to you when we finally get together!
That would be awesome! We really need to get together soon!
These chicken fajitas sound so delicious, and are so much more healthy than their fried counterparts. I’d say this magazine purchase was well worth it!
I’m with you on the magazines- and Taste of Home is a great resource-My kids also got me a subscription to Food Network Magazine, which I’m enjoying. Love the fajitas-one of my favorites.
LOL! Love the story about buying food magazines. I get a stack every month and most of the time don’t even get to look at them and I certainly rarely make the recipes. You can get the recipes online now anyway. SO, why do we take the magazines? I have seen Taste of Home, but now will have to pick it up and check it out. This recipe looks very good. Your photos look great, BTW. Nice spot to take pics by the window.
I also LOVE your new look! Hope everyone is settling in over there in TN!
Beautiful photographs!! I do not get/have many magazines, but the ones I have I save with my heart and use them as inspirations for food photography too.
hey Jodie Mo, I wondered all this time where you’ve gone, had not seen you in my reader and come to find out, you moved or something…. trying to hide from me I guess but I found you again…. – and with that, I am back for more of your no-nonsense approach on food and life… gonna get my penny’s worth
I am so glad you are back!! I thought I may have finally done the impossible and offended you.
Yea, when I moved to WordPress the feed didn’t move with it and I’m afraid I haven’t figured out how to let all of the old followers know. 
Glad to see you back! I have always enjoyed your thoughts.
I never buy food magazines. My Grandmother gets every copy of BBC GoodFood anyway, so I can;t read them all for free, which is nice. This recipe looks and sounds delicious. Love the photography. Really nice post and blog. Please check mine out, it’s trying to do a similar/the same thing!
I made these fajitas for my family this weekend the they were a huge hit! So quick, easy and tasty. I’m definitely adding this to my meal rotation!
Holy moly this was way better then standing over a skillet and trying to keep veggies warm but not overcooked while the chicken cooked in a separate skillet! Delicious thank you so much! Found you from a link on pinterest and will definitely be back!!!!
So happy you loved it! I hope to see you around again soon!
Hi – found you through Pinterest! Your instructions don’t say – do you drain tomatoes and chilies? From the looks of the picture, the mixture is pretty dry before you pour on the sauce. Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by my blog, Donna! I believe I drained the tomatoes but not the chilies. Hope that helps!
Love the recipe! I don’t know if you heard, but I subscribe to this facebook group called Coupon Divas and they have offers on magazines all the time! I have a subscription to Taste of Home for $2.97 a year!!!!! Hope this helps your magazine fettish
Ha ha ha! I could never find that stupid taste of home toothpick either! I stopped subcribing to magazines a few years ago too. Too expensive and I can find what I need on the internet. Looks like a great and easy recipe! I love one dish-baked in the oven-easy to prepare dishes!
I love taste of home! It’s one of the best cooking magazines out there. I’m definitely going to have to try these.
Hi! I, too, found you on Pinterest. This looks like a great recipe! Any idea how many calories, etc?
Somewhere around 350 calories for 2 tacos. Obviously those are the 6 inch tortillas not the big honkin’ burrito tortillas. Thanks for stopping by!!
Made these and they are wonderful. My family loved them. I’ll be adding this to our regular list of meals.
I too found you through Pinterest! So glad I did. As soon as I post this comment, I’m going to make this dish. I look forward to being inspired by you again & again!
These were okay. They didn’t turn out quite as delicious as I had hoped.
I also found you on Pinterest. I have made this 3 times and my family loves it. I made one change though. I leave out the oregano.
Oh my – that was SO good! I loved the flavor! We added sour cream, lettuce and hot sauce. Avocados would be wonderful too.
We’re adding this to our list of favorites!
This recipe is fabulous! I make it at least a few times a month. I love that if I don’t have time to make a grocery list I can always remember the ingredients I need on the fly. I pair it with a lime rice from Our Best Bites. So easy and my 2 year old gobbles it up!
That’s great! So glad you love it. We use it a lot too!
I just made these and OMG! LOVED IT!! I am totally “stealing” this and posting a link to your site on my blog! I used to love eating fajitas, but hated all the work that went into them. This is perfect! And half a batch is just right for 1 meal for my family, so I froze the other half for an even quicker meal later on!
Thank you!
Love your website- so many great ideas! I could never find that toothpick either!!!!!
I just made this recipe for dinner tonight. This is amazeballs! Yes, AMAZEBALLS! I love fajitas with a passion, and have always wishe dthey were easier to make. This is perfect. Thank you for this!
Amazeballs…. I like it.
Glad you love it!!
The pictures looked so yummy… but mine turned out very watery, and a little bland. Prefer sauteing my fajita filling. Thanks for the recipe though… was a nice idea and worth a try.
We loved these – such a simple recipe, it was pretty quick, and definitely didn’t skimp on the flavor
I shared them here: http://fantasticalsharingofrecipes.blogspot.com/2012/09/baked-chicken-fajitas.html
This is so perfect….i knew I was going to make chicken fajitas this weekend as I bought the chicken tonight and already had the red bell peppers, and now I have the perfect recipe! I am so excited to try this
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Really loving these fajitas!! Had to leave out the diced chiles for my son (super picky eater) but he loved them, too!!! Thank you for posting all the amazing recipes!