Sour Cream Enchiladas

Inspired by Pioneer Woman's Sour Cream Enchiladas

With most of my cooking I improvise, so just kinda "go with the flow" as the kids say these days...or in days past...maybe not. Either way, what I am trying to say is take things out that you don't like and add those things in that you do. I like to have a crunch in my meal, so I added corn in the filling, so if you like it smooth don't and the corn, mostly I just look at what I have available and go from there. You need it to be easy and yummy, so that if you really like it, you'll make it again, and if you didn't like it it's okay because you didn't slave over it. This meal takes me about 30 minutes from start to finish, you can not beat that. I LOVE creamed corn and sour cream and cheese, so I really like this meal.

Enchiladas

8oz Sour Cream

3 cups Shredded Cheese(ie: muenster, sharp cheddar, mexican blend)

1 can Green Chilies/1 cup Chopped Green Onions

1 can Sweet Corn/or Regular

1 tsp Ground Cumin

dash of Chili Powder to taste

8oz can Enchiladas Sauce(I have used green and red and love either one)

16 Corn Tortillas

Olive Oil/for frying

Beans

1 Can Black Beans

1 Garlic Clove

1/4 cup chopped white onion

Salt to taste

Enchiladas: Set oven at 350 degrees. Warm oil in shallow frying pan, about 2Tbs. Warm enchilada sauce in sauce pan.

Mix corn, sour cream, cheese(leave some to sprinkle on top before baking), chilies/onions, cumin, chili powder. Set aside.

One at a time fry tortilla, then toss in straight into the sauce, cover then set out on your counter or cutting board, dobble, yes dobble, a spoon full of filling onto tortilla then roll. Set in greased baking dish. The oil is hot and the sauce is too so you'll have some burned fingers. What I did is fried one tortilla and set it aside, until I had 4 tortillas on my cutting board, then I filled and rolled them. This way it gave them time to cool down a bit, and they were much easier to roll. Fill the pan then sprinkle with cheese and set in oven for 15-20 minutes. Then while that is baking start your beans. Using the same pan you just had your sauce in, you should have just a little sauce left-over, add chopped onion and minced garlic clove sauté for a few minutes until the onions become translucent and add your can of b.beans, then salt to taste. Let simmer till warm, or until your enchiladas are ready. Plate and enjoy.

This is a great vegetarian meal, it's fast, seriously easy and delicious. You won't miss the meat, I swear.

Happy Cooking!

My Favorite Dinner

Recipe:

Call Papa Murphey's, order your favorite: medium half pepperoni half cheese, medium half Hawaiian half sausage and bell peppers.

Notify your husband of the pizzas waiting to be picked up. Ask him to pick up some Oreos for dessert and eggs for breakfast.

Warm the oven to 425 degrees fahrenheit.

Give your hubby a kiss when he gets home, put the pizzas in the oven for 15 minutes. Let cool for 2 minutes then cut.

Enjoy the yummy warm goodness. Then enjoy some Oreos with a glass of milk.

Goes really well with a Red Box Movie, I recommend "The Sorcerers Apprentice".

Best thing about this dinner is there is ALWAYS leftovers for lunch and very little clean up. Enjoy this tonight, find your local Papa Murphey's and Red Box.

Chicken Chow Mein

I'm not great with food recipes, when I'm making dinner I kind of just like to make it up as I go along, but tell me to bake something and you'd better give the exact recipe or I will screw it up somehow. These are the ingredients I used in this meal, but be inventive and put your own little twist on it.

Keara's Chicken Chow Mein

1 lb ground chicken or Turkey(turkey doesn't get as dry, but doesn't have as good of flavor as chicken.)

1 package of chow mein noodles in raw form(not to be confused with fried chow mein noodles which you would used for Hawaiian haystacks)

1 small red onion slivered/chopped

2 zucchini chopped

1 bell pepper(which ever color you like, I switch it up) chopped

1 1/2 cup Cashews whole

4 celery stalks chopped

4-5 green onions cut into 1 inch pieces

2 large carrots chopped

1/2 small head of cabbage sliced

1 can sliced water chestnuts slivered

2 LARGE garlic cloves minced

aprx 2 Tbs sesame seed oil

aprx 1/8 c Rice Vinegar

1 small packet Stevia/or 1 Tbs sugar

1 Tbs Soy Sauce optional(can be replaced with salt to taste)

Drizzle about half the sesame seed oil in a hot skillet then add your ground chicken, garlic and soy sauce or salt, let cook for about 3 minutes or until almost all white, then add the rest of your ingredients and cover. Stir periodically. Keeping the lid on is important, if you don't cover it may end up too dry, you want those yummy juices to stay in there, if not you may have to add soy sauce which is not as yummy or as good for you. Should be done within 7 minutes or so. We like our veggies a little crunchy, so if you like yours well done, cook it a bit longer.

While things are simmering, cook your noodles, read package for directions. When done rinse and add to mix and DONE. If you are like me and you can't always have yummy carbs, don't mix in the noodles, just use them as a base for the stir fry for those who can have them.

Enjoy!

Taco Night

Get your oil warmed up and ready for fryin. Warm the corn tortillas, wrapped in a towel to keep them moist, the microwave, them stuff with meat, my fav is shredded beef, and fry. I can never get the meat to stay in the tortilla while being fried so I hold it together with my tongs, or I roll it and make taquitos, also a favorite. Then I stuff o cover with cheese and lettuce, I added green onions for the pic, but it was delicious. You can not have one without the lime though, it is what makes the taco. As you can see I made a lot, 10 tacos and 4 taquitos, there were NO leftovers. I sincerely hope you try these for dinner tonight.

I LOVE tacos. If I could have tacos every night I would. I LOVE them deep fried and super filled with meat and cheese and lettuce and the occasional cilantro rice, dowsed in lime juice. Oh Baby! That is my idea of a good taco. What a sweet week it would be , a week of taco nights.

Goulash!

Sounds yummy doesn't it?? When my mom made this for the first time I thought it was the most disgusting name ever and didn't know why anyone would eat it, until I ate it. It's a very yummy, warm your tummy, kind of meal. Throw some bread and salad with it and you're golden
Goulash
Cook your pasta, any type will do, I used Penne and Rotini. Just before your pasta is tender throw in a can or bag of corn, then drain.
Brown up some ground beef/turkey, add your sauce (we use garden vegi, super yummy with lots of cooked veggies).
Mix all together and add some cheese and you've got your goulash.

Salad
Toss romaine hearts with Krafts Classic Ceasar Dressing with dried cranberries, sunflower seeds and fetta. Oh, the best salad you have ever had, I promise you will not stop at one serving, I ALWAYS finish off the bowl.

Love, Keara

P.S. Thanks to my Mommy who always let me pull up a chair and watch her cook, and to my Daddy who always encouraged me to.

Hawiian Haystacks

A Family favorite...except for my brother Jacob, he can't stand them for some reason, but to the rest of us they are DELICIOUS and SO easy.

Boil 2 chicken breasts with bouillon cube till cooked
remove chicken and shred or cut.
Add a can of cream of chicken soup to broth(you might need to dump some out, depending on how much gravy you want) then thicken with flour and water or corn starch to your liking, add salt and pepper to taste.
Place over rice and Chinese noodles and top with all kinds of goodness like chopped cellary, tomatoes, green onion, crushed pineapple, cheese and almond slivers, my sister puts coconut on it and loves it....anything goes.

Love, Keara

Seminde

So who doesn't love something fried, and what better to fry then the best carb out there? I love fry bread and this Seminde version is my new favorite because it is SO good and incredibly easy. It is pretty much your regular Indian fry bread without the powdered milk and shortening. It is made up of 4 ingredients and is super easy.
2 cups Flour
3 tsp Baking Powder
1tsp Salt
1 cup Milk

Mix dry ingredients together then add milk slowly. Dough will be EXTREMELY sticky, you can add a little more flour to the mixture our do as I did, just flour your counter and the top of your dough as you flatten it with your hands, I guess you could use a rolling pin, but why...just one more thing to clean. Try to shake off as much flour as possible before frying it, it will cut down on the debris in your oil. Fry on both sides till brown.

For dinner we topped ours with beans, ground beef and other condiments...just like you would a Navajo Taco, then for dessert we topped it with Pure Agave Syrup and powdered sugar.
Ooh, so good.

Enjoy!

Love, Keara