Chicken, pepper and mushroom subs

When I relocated in 2009 I had no source of income. I had not been allowed to work and so having a job was a very intimidating idea. I worked at a paper route, a cleaning job and also cooked for a girl’s co-op on campus. I planned the menu and had to follow a budget for around 25 girls. Of course some girls had dietary restrictions and that was also addressed in the menu. I shopped for the groceries and made the dinner meal. It was quite a challenge, but still I brought my home cooking to this house of girls. Making homemade chicken pot pie and rolls, curry and rice became the standard in my kitchen. The facility was old and not the best cooking space but I had plenty of experience making do in my years with a two burner stove that shocked me and my months with little electricity. So, while I struggled a bit, it honestly was allot of fun. On grocery days I made tacos, salad bar and sandwiches. This chicken and pepper sub was quick and easy and a favorite. For the girls who were vegetarians I made a pan without the chicken. Sorry the picture is not great but some things just don’t photograph well!
Ingredients
4 chicken breasts sliced into thin strips
1 yellow bell pepper sliced into strips
1 green bell pepper sliced into strips
1 red bell pepper sliced into strips
1 cup mushrooms, washed well, sliced
1 onion chopped
salt and pepper to taste
Sliced pepper jack cheese
Sub buns
Directions
Saute chicken and onions in olive oil, cover until done, add salt and pepper. Add peppers and fry until peppers are desired tenderness. Add mushrooms and continue cooking.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place sub buns on a baking sheet and put in preheated oven to lightly toast. Remove from oven, place chicken and pepper mixture on each bun and top with cheese. Turn oven to broil and put sandwiches back in to melt cheese. When cheese is melted remove from oven. I like to get a little of the broth from the pan onto the bun as well! This makes it extra yummy.
YUMMY! That sounds and looks delicious!
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Thanks PJ, it was something that was easy and the girls like it on grocery day! xx
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Easy – that’s the best kind of meal! 🙂
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yes I agree PJ xxx
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xoxox
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Me likey!!!
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yeah! the girls liked it allot, so easy too!
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🙂 That sounds like the type of thing I like, EASY! 🙂
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yes me too!
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Those look so yummy and something that I can probably eat. Thanks!
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Thanks!
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Doesn’t photograph well? Are you serious? I saw it and went “yummmm”. Loved the recipe. Gonna try it! 😀 Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks so much Ananya!
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This looks so good!! I can see the hubby getting seconds already 🙂
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SO glad you like it, super easy and good
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Can’t wait to try it.
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🙂 thanks dear
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Lucky girls to have you cooking for them 🙂 This sounds amazing! And easy to boot!
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It is easy and was a fun job!
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I’ll bet they loved your food – and YOU even more! 🙂
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Thanks Jodi, I was kind of the kitchen mom, it was fun!
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Looks very good Lynn, the girls were very lucky to have you cooking for them. Thanks for sharing, happy humpday! 🙂
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Thanks dear Terry! 🙂
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Well! It took two cups of coffee and a scone, but I think I’m finally caught up reading your posts Lynn! I realized at one point I wasn’t breathing….I had to remind myself that you have a new life now, you and your children are safe and sound, and that you were writing about your past journey to get to where you are NOW! Whew!
This recipe looks delicious! Thank you for sharing it, and your incredible, courageous life.
Blessings,
Dori
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Thanks so much for taking the time to read and catch up Dori! So sweet of you! xxx
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I bet the girls loved having you as their cook. And I can imagine anything seemed easy compared to coping with feeding a young family when you didn’t have electricity!
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It was fun and the girls and I bonded and had fun!
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Yumm!
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Sounds delicious and easy. I’m always in search of quick dinner ideas… totally gonna try it out 🙂
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Thanks shamira!
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Made my taste buds tingle…I could go for this tonight!!
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Thanks Tasha, super easy
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This would be good for lunch. A must try.
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Thanks!
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I’ll take one vegetarian, please!!! 🙂
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ok yeah!
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Your a great cook! Perhaps the job was thrown into your path. I sometimes find cooking very meditative. All the steps and chopping and cutting and stirring 🙂
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I agree it must have been thrown my way! It was awesome!
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Looks yummy. I love the chicken and the bell peppers. In my opinion the sub is like a healthier approach to an overloaded Philly Cheesesteak. Love it! 🙂
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So true, thanks!
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You are a magician. Such a great and creative idea. But as you said, you had to be creative!
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Thanks Erika
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Hugs, Lynn 😊
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It really sounds like you had a tough go of it, Lynn. However, all that cooking has certainly paid off with all the lovely meals you can prepare. This one sounds very tasty.
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the positive part is I do feel I can go along with many circumstances in life and get past! Thanks so much!
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Experience can be a wonderful thing, as it removes some future anxieties.
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It really does!
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Now I’m hungry 🙂
Can I come, Lynz?
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Yes Welcome dear! xx
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Oh yum!!!
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I just laughed out loud with recognition, affection, and and hearty “YES!” when you wrote of needing money, cooking for a bunch of girls in less than optimum conditions, and a lean budget. Oh and the lack or sometimes maybe utilities. Cooked for twelve on a wood-stove aboard a historic sailing vessel.
This is such a great post. A slice of life in your fascinating life journey as well as recipes that are doable, delicious, and economical. XOX JoHanna
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I love that JoHanna!Wow adventure! xoxo
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It looks picture perfect to me.. An awesome picture to drool over 😄
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Thanks!
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Pan how to I find your latest recipes and posts?
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I’m not sure lol.. I’m not WP savvy so if it needed to be set up to highlight latest posts, I didn’t know to do it..
I haven’t posted a recipe in awhile, life and reading my fav WP bloggers takes up alot of my time 😄
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Oh ok just wanted to make sure I was not missing out! I will keep looking, thanks!
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This looks decadently delicious.
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Thanks!
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Ummm..yummylicious! Looks great…:-D
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Thanks 🙂
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🙂 …
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Yum! This looks great! What an interesting experience that must have been cooking for the girls.
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It was a really interesting time for me! They helped me in the kitchen and sat and chatted! It was fun!
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This looks yummo!
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Thanks Vonita!
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wow… it looks very yummy. Sorry for not checking out your or anyone’s blog recently….
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How are you Juan? I went to your blog today and wondered where you are! Is everything ok?
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Read my latest two posts… Things actually turned out perfectly after 19 years
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Good to hear
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Delish! The flavors are so great! I can easily see why this would be a hit with or without the chicken. xo
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thanks Jean xoxo
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You are an amazing cook and a human being.
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You are so kind Bernadette! Thank you for your kind support!! xxx
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Well heck, given the conditions this was an awesome dish for you to make, Lynn! And I think you pulled it off perfectly and the photos DO make it look so tasty! A+ for you! xoxoxo
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Thanks xoxo
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Miam, miam! I’m saving this recipe.
I’d have to split it and make it two pans b/c He-Man can’t eat mushrooms or omit them all together. I may try this one soon!
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I leave them out sometimes! Thanks!
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Lynn, your chicken, peppers and mushrooms sub looks delicious! I would only have to eliminate the green peppers .
I am allergic only to the green peppers, which my Mom said she ate them all her life but “burped” whenever she ate them while pregnant with me. When I was married my husband put green pepper in the crock pot stew. I had raised welts and he had to take me to hospital. The intern doctor (who injected me with benadryl) asked me if I also got upset stomach with orange canatloupe melons. He said there is an “oil” in both those food items closely related. My phone is acting up, Lynn. Ignore typos, a ghost is trying to write on your comment page. 🙂 xo
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Wow you poor dear!!!
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Isn’t it strange how much people have in common without realising? Hence my post connexions….and reading yours about paper run and cleaning etc we did pretty similar things…..when I was first on my own with my kids, I did a paper run,cleaned someones flat and did the lunches on a local building site, my friend did breakfasts and another one did afternoon tea, hard work but fun. It is also how I met my husband as word got round how good the food was in our little canteen and him and his mates came for their lunch from another site…connexions we al have them 😉
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Wow so cool! X
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This was such a nice part of the young girls’ lives. You are truly a giving cook and friend to all. The chickenr, mushrooms and all peppers except green ones on a sub bun with brothh would be delicious! Such a great photo and cheesy scrumptious dinner or lunch! xo Thanks, Lynn for this recipe! ❤
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Thanks dear xxx
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The sub looks super delicious Lynn.. what are you talking about with photograph not being great?! 🙂 Your experience cooking at co-op seems challenging but interesting nevertheless.
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Thanks!
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I absolutely loved that sandwich
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Thanks Ritu x
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This looks great Lynn! I bet they loved your food!
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🙂 thanks it was fun!
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I love peppers and meat! I will have to try this out soon!
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Thanks Antonia!
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It looks good minus the mushrooms for me though. 🙂
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Yes for my kids I leave out the mushrooms!
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Not a thing wrong with that photo, Lynn! Looks yum.
I love how you understate with ‘when I relocated’ when you could, just as easily write,’when I started life over’.
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hahaha so true! Thanks
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Lynn, see what you have done. Now I am hungry and that looks scrumptious!
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awwe thanks!
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You are very welcome.
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Sounds so scrumptious Lynn 🙂
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Thanks lynne!
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YUM! Your adventures in life have made you the lovely woman that you are, Lynn! I think they look wonderful! ♥
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Thanks dear!! xx
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what fun to cook for a bunch of girls…almost like cooking for your gang….love the blue herons…they are really a beautiful bird…we have egrets and blue herons in Calif….xxkat
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I had never seen them Kat. beautiful! xxx
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Sounds and looks so delectable Lynz. ..
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Thanks Chitra
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I bet those girls really appreciated having your home cooking. Must have made them feel like they were at home, although you may have been a better cook than their mums! 🙂
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It was fun Peggy! Thanks xx
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This looks great! Plus, I am so impressed with domestic skills. I also wondered how you managed when you moved back. You are so resourceful!
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It was tough but we got by. Thanks Carol!
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I always wanted to ask, and I had just been thinking about it, when you posted it!
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I had no credit, could not get an apartment so my parents co-signed. It was a tough year but we got by!
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Thank God you had some support. How did you all fit into 1 apartment?
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But I thought you don’t have contact now? I guess sometimes it’s cheaper to own than to rent? Did your kids mind?
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We do not have contact, but back then after we lived here for a year, he offered to purchase a house. He had just married! So, I said yes. We were going to go into low income housing and so thinking we could get a home made me say yes. But, that meant he would be wanting to visit. so, we have been here for 7 years now in April. We lived a year on our own, then we bought a home together. Then a year later he insisted on coming to visit, then we reconciled with the threat he would take me to court, fight for some kind of custody. Now, it has been 2 years of no relationship. He came last January and then May. So, it is off and on, but no contact between he and I! Very complicated!! But, for me now it is done, just waiting and hoping to divorce at some point!!
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Sounds very complicated. But, it doesn’t sound like his idea of marriage and having a family are what most people think that means. In his mind, he probably thinks you are still together and happily married. Gulp!
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I hope not!! We have not spoken since June when he quit paying support money. We have had no real contact for 2 1/2 years. Now that he does not pay, there is not reason to tip toe around and he cannot come back. When he quit paying, it was freeing for me.Before that I felt I could not tell him he was not allowed to come to this house, it is in his name as well. When he came in May, we barely spoke and it ended badly, so it’s totally over, it has been for a long time. He spoke to my oldest son a couple weeks ago and asked him, how is mom getting along with no money!
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Honestly, from what I understand, he doesn’t think the way other people do. To be a father, and a mature adult means that you provide for your family. With 9 kids, how is it acceptable to not contribute to their welfare? No matter what your relationship is with each other, he has certain responsibilities! It boggles the mind.
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yes it does. He has no contact with the kids either, which is sad. I have always kept it open, feeling kids need a father, but he choses not to call, email or have contact!!
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Very strange!
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I have heard from several ladies and the same thing, they leave the family and just cut contact!
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It’s a problem. Fatherhood is a lifetime commitment.
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oh yes, no matter how you feel about the mother, it’s for life!
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Sounds delicious and yummy….
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Thanks!
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You are superwoman! I have no doubt you could make a beautiful meal under any condition!
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oh thanks! xx
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