Strawberry Mango Tostada and Awards!!

You know that I like strawberries, but have you ever had a Strawberry Mango Tostada? I hadn’t either, but anything with strawberries has my name all over it.  This tostada has fresh strawberries, avocado, mango, jicama, mango, lime juice, of course, cilantro, cooked chicken and a few jalapeno slices, and tortillas How many of you have eaten jicama? I never had before now, and I really didn’t care for it This salad is so refreshing and summery.  We finally are in the 80’s in Chicago.  Of course, when we turned on the air conditioner, it didn’t come on, only the fan from the furnace was running.

My husband bought a cheap programmable thermostat, when our other one died, and it has never worked correctly.  Now he needs a thermostat intervention. I am going to buy a new one today, which I should have done a long time ago.  Wish me luck!

Because it wasn’t very cool in our house and it was 89 outside, I wanted a cool salad type dinner, I made this Strawberry Tostada.  I got a flier at the grocery store from the California Strawberry Commission, official, he he, so it must be good!  I adapted their recipe by adding the mangoes, and chicken

Strawberry Tostada Adapted from the California Strawberry Commission

This recipe serves 6  Adapt accordingly

2 ½ C strawberries, stemmed and hulled

2 mangoes, peeled and diced

½ lb. jicama ,peeled and diced

2 cups cooked chicken breasts, diced

½ cup cilantro

 6 jalapeno slices

1 lb of avocado, peeled, seeded and diced

2 Tbsp of lime juice

6-6 in corn or flour tortillas

chili powder

6 tbsp queso fresco cheese, crumbled.   I used feta.

1 lime, cut in six wedges.

Instructions

Pre heat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix Strawberries, mango, jicama cilantro, peppers, chicken, and lime juice.  Add avocados and fold in gently. Arrange tortillas on baking sheet lined with foil and sprayed with cooking spray. Bake in oven 8-10 until brown.  Watch carefully, so they don’t burn!  Mound one cup of strawberry mixture in center of each tortilla.

Below is what I was posting, however, Blogger couldn't load the images of the awards. I will re-post these awards, when I can load the images.

Now for the Awards.  Since I started working on the Bake sale back in April, it consumed my mind and life.  I apologize to Christine from Christine's Pantry and Elisabeth from Food and Thrift Finds who bestowed these wonderful awards upon me.  Thank you, Ladies!  I am so honored to have received them and be in such wonderful company. Go check out their wonderful blogs and you'll find many delicious recipes and gorgeous pictures with warmth and friendship!  Here they are, and they are gorgeous!  Bloggallooza Awards!

                             From Christine's Pantry  

                                  Then I got not, one, but two  awards From Elisabeth                                    

 Elisabethe's Food and Thrift Finds

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