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My guest today is Author Christina Berry whose first novel The Familiar Stranger <\/span>will be available soon. This sounds like a delicious recipe I plan to try out! Here’s Christina:

“Doritos chips, cream soups, and green chilies\u2014doesn\u2019t sound like the most appetizing mix of ingredients, does it?<\/p>\n

<\/span>My grandmother made this dish decades ago, passing the recipe down to my mother, and then to me. She labeled it Chicken Chalupas, though it\u2019s nothing like what you\u2019d receive if you ordered a dish by the same name in a Mexican restaurant.
Chicken Chalupas<\/span>
Nacho Cheese Doritos
4 chicken breasts, baked and shredded
1 c. sour cream
1 can cream of chicken
1 can cream of mushroom
\u00bd c. chicken broth (I use what\u2019s left from cooking the breasts)
1 small can diced green chilies (I use mild)
\u00bd c. chopped onion
grated cheddar cheese ( as much as you prefer)<\/p>\n

<\/span>Grease a 9 x 13 pan, cover bottom with several layers of broken chips. Sprinkle shredded chicken evenly over the chips. In a separate bowl, mix sour cream, soups, broth, chilies, and onion. Pour over the chicken. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 350 for 35-40 mins, until chips begin to blacken. Serve with tomato wedge garnishes.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Both my mother and grandmother have handed down quite a lot of things to me besides recipes: faith in Jesus, the ability to go through hard times with trust in an Ultimate Good, a love of card games, a slightly risqu\u00e9 sense of humor \u2026 but they\u2019ve shown me how to be a strong woman.<\/p>\n

<\/span>In the last five months I\u2019ve gone through a divorce, a close loved one\u2019s arrest, entering the part-time work force, placing my home up for sale, and moving forward to adopt a foster child. Add to this my first book release EVER coming in less than two months. I\u2019m so thankful to have a legacy of strong women to emulate!<\/p>\n

<\/span>Kind of reminds me of my heroine. She doesn\u2019t think of herself as a strong woman at first. Just like this recipe, Denise Littleton\u2019s marriage has ingredients that don\u2019t seem to go together.<\/p>\n

Poky chips of uncertainty concerning her husband\u2019s love, spicy chilies of unrest about finances, stinky onions of bad circumstances \u2026 but when it\u2019s all baked together in the oven of hard times, though the end product isn\u2019t fabulously good-looking, the flavors have melded in a marvelous way.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Happy cooking! And please come by AshberryLane<\/a> and subscribe to my infrequent, humorous newsletter for a chance to win an autographed copy of The Familiar Stranger.<\/span> Or drop by my blog<\/a> or my editing services.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks Christina. You sound like you’ve been on the “dartboard in hell.” That’s how I always describe those periods when it’s just one thing after another and none of them happy.<\/p>\n

I’m thrilled about your first book. Now that’s something to be happy about! I wish you much success and many happy readers!–Lyn<\/p>\n

To pre-order <\/span>The Familiar Strange<\/span>r, <\/span><\/span>click ChristianBook.com <\/span><\/a>
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