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CHICKEN FAJITA MACARONI & CHEESE SKILLET MEAL
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Apr 20, 2025
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let's make the creamiest fajita chicken
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macaroni and
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cheese i made this all in one
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skillet we brought macaroni and cheese
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and fajitas together in the same skillet
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it's a two for one now if you don't know
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what fajita is it is kind of a ramped up
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version of a taco flavoring this going
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to be creamy and it's going to be very
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delicious if y'all ready i am fixing to
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cut up three boneless skinless chicken
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breast you want about a pound and a
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half i'm just going to thinly cut the
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chicken
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breast and then we'll go back through
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and dice it
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up so you want it smaller than
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bite-sized
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pieces all right then we're going to
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just turn the chicken and then cut it
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the other way
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this is another good recipe if you want
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to use thigh
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meat so that's what you're looking for
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right there little
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pieces all right we're going to start
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searing up our chicken giving it some
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nice flavor
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all right you're going to need a deep
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skillet or you can use like a large pot
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that you would cook spaghetti in we're
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going to put it on a mediumigh heat
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we're going to add in about 2 tablespoon
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of some cooking
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oil all right we want to make sure our
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oil is nice and hot
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you want medium high yep let's do a
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medium high
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want to make sure we heard that
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sizzle kind of make one row here with
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all the chicken just flatten it
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out then we're going to start seasoning
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it up we've got fajita
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seasoning i'm going to go in with about
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one tablespoon right across the chicken
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and then I'm going to give it some
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poultry seasoning or chicken seasoning
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whatever you have i'm going to go across
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the top i'm going to let it get kind of
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brown on the bottom before we start
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moving it around and then we'll season
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again bring over a new cutting board
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i've got a yellow
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onion a sharp knife here I got your
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peppers oh we washed the peppers
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off we got a red
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one a green
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one throw over ah sorry
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and a yellow one we're going to start
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cutting these into
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strips even the onion that's what
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fajitas are about right the strips all
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right before I start cutting my peppers
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I'm going to start moving the chicken
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around that way we can get the rest of
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the seasoning in now the whole
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measurement for the seasonings is two
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tablespoons of the fajita seasoning and
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then one tablespoon of the chicken
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seasoning which I'm using the poultry
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seasoning
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or you can season with love yes go in
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with the rest of our fajita
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seasoning smells
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delicious there we go i'm going let this
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cook for a little bit and then we'll go
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back to it we want to make sure that the
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chicken is fully cooked through and nice
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and brown all right let's go chop up
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some peppers and
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onion just going to go around the
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pepper that gets rid of that whole seed
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pocket and this
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top oh you can use any colors you want
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i've got the red the yellow and I've got
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a green that'll be some good flavors
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there we're going to cut it into
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strips okay I've decided to do half of
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each one because these were really big
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peppers
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here I can help you out a little bit
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okay what we're going to do now is cut
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these in
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half there we go
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perfect i'm going to slice up an onion
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ah there we go i'm going to follow the
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lines of the onion i've already taken
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off the ends taken off that outer layer
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and then cut the onion in half these are
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going to melt down so we're going to use
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the whole onion
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i'm going to turn it over and I'm just
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going to run my knife through
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it just like I did the
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peppers let's go check the
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chicken okay the chicken is cooked
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through we already tested it we're going
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to take it out place it into a
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bowl there we go we're going to set this
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off to the side all right i'm going to
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add some additional cooking oil to our
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pan pan's super hot so we're going to go
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ahead and start adding our
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peppers woo told you it was
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hot and the onions
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we're going to stir
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this until the onions wilt down and the
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peppers get nice and
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soft all right our peppers and onions
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are nice and soft we're going to go
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ahead now and start adding in 10
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oz of a pasta i am using
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elbows i think that looks that look good
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there we go this is what I'm using right
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here to that we're going to add in 1 and
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3/4 cup of chicken
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broth and then we're going to add in 2
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and 1/2 cups of
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milk i'm going to bring this to a
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boil i'm going to season with some salt
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i gave it a taste and recognized the
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fact that I needed a little extra salt
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in there and some
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pepper me stir that
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up i'm going to show you how you can use
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a spoon twice to taste everything you're
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kidding
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how can you do that the back edge of it
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just go in you can taste it from there
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m that's better hey I got the cheese
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grater again yep got the cheese cutter
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that's for later in the recipe what
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we're going to do cuz we've got this
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coming to a boil now is we're going to
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place a lid on
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it we're going to let it cook for 10
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minutes until that pasta is cooked
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through and nice and tender i am going
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to go in and check this every few
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minutes just kind of give it a scrape on
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the bottom make sure nothing is sticking
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we'll be back cuz we got a few more
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things to put in there finish this up
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okay we're going to reverse two of the
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directions here do not place a lid on
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and make sure you cook this on medium
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and make sure you check it every so
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often i don't know what recipe I was
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reading we' have been making something
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totally else that's for sure what was
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that okay you guys our noodles are done
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and they're nice and tender what we're
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going to do is add our chicken back in
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that we cooked earlier with the fajita
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seasoning all the juices oh doesn't that
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look good
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y'all and then what I'm going to
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do some mustard i've got the dry mustard
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i'm going to add a little bit of a
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teaspoon
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Somebody told me not to shake your
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seasonings into your pan that's got
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steam coming out because it'll clog the
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holes of your seasoning bottle i guess
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they were right so you do it anyway so I
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do it anyway cuz that's the way we roll
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i've done it forever so that's okay yeah
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we are y'all that's looking good okay
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now you saw Thomas grating cheese we've
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got What is this one here that one is
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the kabat sharp cheddar cheddar oh look
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at that yeah we're going to put half of
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that in it's 4
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oz we'll go back and add more if we need
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to and then we've got this cheese
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here nice melty cheese mozzarella yeah
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mozzarella and then we're just going to
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put the rest up in the
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refrigerator for another dish for when I
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heat it up with tortillas yeah we're
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going to mix this all up and get that
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cheese nice and melted then we're going
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to see if we need to season any more
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which I don't think we're going to need
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to there's my fajita chicken creamy
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macaroni and cheese woo look at that
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nice and saucy
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cheesy and that chicken is nice and
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flavored
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i'm going to plate this up and give it a
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try for
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you here's my
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bite y'all we brought macaroni and
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cheese and fajitas together in the same
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skillet it's a two for
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one that is delicious nice and creamy
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cheesy and full of
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flavor give me a thumbs up who's making
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this one all right you guys i'll see
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y'all on the next episode bye
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