New Recipe - Spicy Skillet Chicken

Finally made a new recipe! It is delicious. Kind of spicy, totally flavorful and easy as could be.

Spicy Skillet Chicken
4 servings

Ingredients
1 to 2 teaspoons chili powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/4 lb)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 can (15 oz) black beans, drained, rinsed
1 can (11 oz) Green Giant® Mexicorn® whole kernel corn with red and green peppers, undrained
1/3 cup Thick 'n Chunky salsa
2 cups hot cooked brown rice

Instructions
1. Mix chili powder, salt and pepper. Sprinkle evenly over both sides of chicken. In 10-inch nonstick skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add chicken; cook 8 to 10 minutes, turning once, until juice of chicken is clear when center of thickest part is cut (170°F).
2. Stir in beans, corn and salsa. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer 3 to 5 minutes or until vegetables are hot. Serve with rice.

Nutrition Information
1 Serving: Calories 460 (Calories from Fat 70); Total Fat 8g (Saturated Fat 2g, Trans Fat ncg); Cholesterol 75mg; Sodium 1020mg; Total Carbohydrate 66g (Dietary Fiber 9g, Sugars ncg); Protein 40g

Sigh. Read the bill

A huge deal was made a week or so ago about $200 million spending included in the stimulus plan that would go toward providing contraceptive coverage. Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) denounced the spending, saying Republicans wouldn't back the spending on contraception. Media jumped on board, covering the story and repeating the $200 million price-tag from Boehner. Democrats even capitulated, and agreed to take that part of the stimulus plan out.

Now it seems that it was never part of the package to begin with. What Boehner saw was language that allowed Medicaid recipients to get as much pregnancy prevention coverage as they do coverage for actually being pregnant. Something that a number of states already do. The $200 million? That's projected savings to the states within 5 years.

Yeah - good job dude. If you want to read an article about it, check out Huffington Post. Not sure if we'll hear anything more about this. But we should.

So Much to Post!

I seem to always find a ton of stuff to rant and rave about on the same day. So I'm separating them into different posts, even though they're all going up at the same time!

Awhile ago someone posted a comment on my site directing me to an online store that sells the "I Kinda Love New York" t-shirts that inspired my blog title. I clicked back to the author, and she is also an LA transplant with a less than whole-hearted love for NYC. Here's her blog: http://ikindaloveny.blogspot.com/. She's funny and compares the coasts, and actually finds things to enjoy about the city! Novel idea, that.