Quick Dinner Idea: Tortilla Pizzas

Just before leaving work today I saw a friend had a new blog post, so I decided to read it really quick. So glad I did! In it she said she was making tortilla pizzas for dinner. Say what!? I had just been trying to come up with a way to use some leftover chipotle chicken we had, and this sounded like a fun thing to try!

Here's the recipe from The Lucky Laymans:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Place some fajita size flour tortillas on a cookie sheet & heat them until they are golden brown & crispy around the edges (normally 8-10 min). You'll need to watch them as they may bubble up a bit & I just prick them with a fork to flatten out the air bubble. After they are brown, just pull them out of the oven & top them with whatever pizza toppings you want. I normally just use a can of pizza sauce, pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, & mushrooms. I've also made a white pizza version with alfredo sauce, grilled chicken, spinach, & mozzarella. Once you've filled them full of toppings, just put them back in the oven for 5-7 minutes or until the cheese is nice & melted. I normally fix 2 pizzas for each of us because the fajita size tortillas are quite small. You could certainly use bigger tortillas--this is just what I normally have on hand.

As I said, we had chipotle chicken, so I used a ranch-garlic sauce (much like Papa Murphy's - mix ranch dressing [1/3-1/2 a cup] with 2-3 cloves of garlic and voila), the chicken, and both mozzarella and cheddar cheeses. Some sun dried tomatos, bell peppers, or even spinach would have been nice on there, but it wasn't too shabby anyway. We also used some ham and made a more traditional version with fresh garlic chives and basil. Yum!

We chose to make ours on the grill. We grilled one side, flipped and added toppings and closed the grill to let them melt. Super easy and quick. Sorry I didn't take pics! Try it and share your variations!

Guest Bathroom: Old and New

One of the lovely wedding gifts we received were some black and white, fleur de lis patterend towels. The second I saw them I loved them. But then I thought "where can I use them?" The solution: repaint the guest bathroom!

But first, some background on our guest bathroom. When I moved into this house, the tile in the bathroom was painted white. And by painted, I mean they took the paint they used on the cabinets and doors and painted over the tile, even the tile that lined the shower! Needless to say, that paint was not going to last long, so even before I settled in, I began scraping. The white paint came off very easily, for obvious reasons, but underneath that layer I found two more layers of paint - and they were the right kind of paint which did not remove easily. A week later, the last of the paint was scraped off and underneath we found this lovely tile creation:

The mermaid.
Notice the one tile that is turned the wrong way. Ugh.

My mom and I debated whether to paint the tile (correctly) again, but we knew that would be quite expensive, so my mom and I thought it would be fun to paint the bathroom walls orange and use all of the random Mediterranean accessories I collected while in Europe. So here is the old bathroom.

And here's the new bathroom. We decided to go monochromatic to match the tile and incorporate the black and white towels and accessories.

The new shower curtain.

The old mermaid.

With the curtain open. You can see our new towels in the basket on top of the shelf.

Here's the color on both sides of the closet door. Like our little monogram? Dan Mac made that for us.

And that's that. We may still get new pulls for the vanity and such, but I'm ready to not think about it for a while. Barron really likes it a lot better. He was never a big fan of the orange. Thanks to our friend Amy who helped get it painted quickly!