Enchiladas! That Is What Is For Dinner!
“Mom! What’s for dinner?” I get this question all the time and some days I just do not have it in me! Seriously! Today was one of those days. So what do I do? I invent and try to snap out of it! And I have to say I nailed it today! Like I am stupid proud of myself! Today I made enchiladas and they were so easy and so good and EVERYBODY loved them! So if you are having one of those days, try this recipe out. It is a little odd as I was working with what we had in our house, but it turned out delicious!
Enchiladas!
1 lb ground beef
Olive oil
1 small chopped onion
3 tablespoons chopped garlic from the jar
1 can of tomato soup
1 can of enchilada sauce
Corn tortillas
Cheddar Cheese Shredded
Prep:
In a large pan saute your onions and garlic in a tablespoon or two of olive oil. When the onions are translucent add your ground beef and brown. Once your beef is browned add your tomato soup and enchilada sauce.
Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish.
Take your corn tortillas and spoon some of your meat sauce and cheese in each one. Roll up and place in your pan. Once your pan is full, any sauce leftover, spread across the top of your tortillas and sprinkle with as much cheese as your family’s heart desires! Cover with foil.
Preheat oven to 350.
Place in oven for 15 minutes. Then cook another 15 minutes uncovered.
Top with sour cream, chopped jalapenos, and cilantro
Serve with rice and black beans.
This dish was so good and everyone truly loved it!!!!
Bon Appetit!
Amy
Easy, Flexible, Crock Pot Tacos
Need an easy, flexible, taco recipe the entire family will love? Read on my friend. I have it!
If your house is anything like mine in the summer you NEVER know who is going to be home for dinner and who is not, or even better who is going to bring over a friend or four! My kids do that and I am not complaining by any means, but I am having to get creative with meals. I need them to be simple, quick, and really good. I mean I want the boys friends to want to come back! I love that our house is a grub hub for them. Do you want to know why? Because what happens when you eat? You talk! It is such a beautiful thing-especially when you have teenagers!
Graeme was VERY happy with this recipe!
So Tuesday Trey was flying and I knew I would have Graeme for sure, but had no idea about the others. Graeme TOTALLY digs taco Tuesday so I knew I had to do something or we would be going to Taco Bell. I decided to get creative and try something that I could make a lot of and it would keep all week. I have to say it turned out pretty darn good. I would love if you gave it a try and let me know your thoughts. Even if it is bad, I love hearing from you!
Summer Tacos/taco bowls
INGREDIENTS:
2-3 tablespoons avocado oil or olive oil will work too
1 chopped onion
3-4 tablespoons crushed garlic in the jar or 2-3 cloves garlic minced
1 lb ground beef
1 can enchilada sauce
1 can black beans
1 can rotel with lime juice
Cooked rice
flour tortillas and hard taco shells
avocado
romaine lettuce
cilantro
sour cream
shredded cheese
jalapeno
PREP:
For this recipe I used a crock pot and let it marinate all day in the crock pot. So stinking good!
In a pan heat your oil on medium heat and add your onion and garlic. Cook for about 5 minutes.
Add your ground beef and brown it.
Pour your meat mixture into your crock pot and add your enchilada sauce, beans, and rotel. Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 3 hours.
About 15 minutes before time to eat, cook your rice.
When you are ready to eat EVERYONE has options. You can do soft tacos, hard tacos, or taco bowls for those of us trying to be a little more health conscious. Whatever your choice add your meat mixture and garnish your taco or bowl your way. If you do a bowl start with the rice and then add your meat and top.
That is it! Super Easy! Super Good! Super flexible for everyone in your family! My kind of meal!
Bon Apetit!
XO,
Amy
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Amy's Tortilla Soup Modified for This Amy's Tastebuds
My neighbor Amy might be one of the coolest cats in the world. She always seems to have her head on straight and is always there to be my sounding board when I feel like I am about to jump off a cliff. That my friends is a great friend and she is my neighbor!
My neighbor Amy might be one of the coolest cats in the world. She always seems to have her head on straight and is always there to be my sounding board when I feel like I am about to jump off a cliff. That my friends is a great friend and she is my neighbor! How lucky am I? To top it off the girl can cook and she is not afraid to try new things! When she made this tortilla soup once- I was like I have to have that recipe! Unbeknownst to her, I changed a few things and you guys can too! That is what is so amazing about this recipe; you can add or take away whatever your family's likes or dislikes are and the end result will be the same! Delish! Give this recipe a whirl and let me know how you like it!
Amy's Tortilla Soup-kind of!
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon Avocado Oil or Olive Oil
1 Cup Chopped onions or as much or little as your family likes
3 garlic clove minced or 2-3 tablespoons of jarred minced garlic
1/4 of a jalapeno chopped
3/4 cup chopped really good cilantro (word of advice, cilantro is tricky. People love it or hate it. If you are making for a group of people that you do not know their thoughts on cilantro don't use that much. You will notice in my photo below I just use a little. If I am making for my family I use 3/4 cup for sure, but for friends, I only use a little.)
1/2 teaspoon oreagano
1/2 teaspoon cummin
8 cups at least, I like more of Chicken Stock
1/2 a beer
2 cups chopped chicken breast (I just buy a whole roasted chicken cooked at the store and shred it)
1 bag of frozen corn
1 cup of COOKED rice
1 1/2 zucchini sliced
1 can of rotel tomatoes ( I like the one with cilantro and lime for this recipe)
lawry's season salt for taste
Prep:
Heat your oil and add your onion and garlic and saute a minute or two.
Then add your jalapeno and cilantro and saute for a few more minutes.
Next add your spices and saute a little longer.
Then add your chicken stock, beer, vegetables, chicken, cooked rice, and more lawry's for taste.
Let simmer for at least 30 minutes longer is better.
Top with your toppings of choice. Some ideas include:
Avocado, Shredded Cheese, Jalapeno, Sour Cream, Cilantro, and Tortilla Chips.
That is it. So easy and so good! What are you cooking this week? I would love to know!
Bon Appetit!
XO,
Amy
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A Twist on Taco Tuesday
At the Berry home, creativity is little necessary for dinner. Weather that be a new recipe or just labeling the meal with a title, Taco Tuesday! For whatever reason, titling the night makes the meal creative and more fun! I don't know why, but if it gets this family of five to sit down together for a meal, well that is a win in my eyes!
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At the Berry home, creativity is little necessary for dinner. Whether that be a new recipe or just labeling the meal with a title, Taco Tuesday! For whatever reason, titling the night makes the meal creative and more fun! I don't know why, but if it gets this family of five to sit down together for a meal, well that is a win in my eyes!
The older ones are not as into the titles as they use to be, but Graeme is and I still remember a time when Will and JP loved the titles too. Some titles that have lasted are Spaghetti Sunday, Meatloaf Monday, Taco Tuesday, Wildcard Wednesday (I will write about what we do here some other time because they love that), Throw back Thursday- which is basically leftovers, and the weekend becomes pretty much a crap shoot with our busy schedules. Just because a day has a title does not mean we use the same recipe over and over either. For instance; Taco Tuesday; just last week I tried a recipe I have never done, it was still tacos, but with a twist. I am on a mission to come up with at least 5 new taco recipes so that each month I can rotate tacos to keep it interesting and new. Try this recipe and let me know what you think and if you have a taco recipe I should try, please share it! I would love to add it to my Tuesday rotation.
Stuffed Baked Tacos
Ingredients:
1 Tablespoon avocado oil
1/2 pound cooked chicken shredded (I used a rotisserie chicken from the store)
1 ounce of taco seasoning (I used green taco seasoning)
1/2 cup onion chopped or diced
1-2 garlic cloves minced or 1-2 tablespoons jarred minced garlic-The Berry's like a lot so I do about 2 tablespoons of the jarred garlic.
1 can diced tomatoes with hatch green chilies (14.5 ounces) fully drained (if your family does not like really spicy use regular tomatoes)
1 can chopped green chilies (4.5 ounces) fully drained
10 hard taco shells
1 can refried beans of choice
Shredded Cheddar Cheese at least 2 cups unless your family is like mine and LOVES their cheese, well the skies the limit!
Prep:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Spray a 9 x13 baking dish with Pam or some type of non stick spray.
Heat your avocado oil over medium heat in a skillet add your onion and garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes until the onion is translucent and fragrant.
Stir in the chicken, seasoning, tomatoes, and green chilies. Stir until fully combined and reduce heat and simmer for about 8 minutes.
Place the taco shells in your baking dish, standing up, and bake the shells empty for 5 minutes to allow them to crisp up.
Remove from the oven.
Spoon 1 tablespoon of beans into the bottom of each taco shell. Top with the chicken mixture, almost to the top of each shell.
Top each shell generously with shredded cheese and bake for 7-10 minutes until cheese is fully melted and the edges of the shells are brown.
Garnish with your choice of more cheese, jalapenos, sour cream, cilantro, avocado, and salsa.
Serve with Rice or your side of choice.
That is it! So good and so easy!
I will say that JP and I both agree that maybe making the chicken mixture a day in advance might even be better because the left overs were to die for! So maybe letting the chicken, seasoning, tomatoes, onion, garlic, and chilies marinate for a day would be even better! We might try that this week, but the recipe above is delish even if you don't take the time to marinate the mixture!
Bon Appetit!
xo,
Amy
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Ju Ju's Taco Soup
It's Fall Y'all! Who doesn't love a warm bowl of soup? This soup is from Graeme's God Mother, a.k.a. Ju Ju, and as Graeme Berry says, "Happiness in Ju Ju's soup!"
It's Fall Baby! Time for the leaves to fall, the weather to change, and time for SOUP! I love me some soup y'all! And Ju Ju's taco soup is just the thing I needed to welcome in brisk cool air of fall! I love it!!!!! I think you will too! Give it a whirl and let me know your thoughts! I bet it makes you Happy!
Ju Ju's Taco Soup
Ingredients:
1 Lb Ground beef, Olive Oil, Onion, garlic, 2 cans ranch style pinto beans (my family prefers one with Jalapeños and one without) 1 can corn, 1 can chopped green chilies, 1 package of ranch dressing, 1 package of taco seasoning mix, 1 can of stewed tomatoes or 2 can’s of rotel. If you do 1 can of stewed tomatoes then use 1 can of rotel (I prefer the one with lime in it) and we prefer 2 cans of rotel because the tomatoes are chopped up better. 1 can of water and 1 beer of choice (and no it is not to drink!). Pepper and Lawrys season salt.
Place 1 tablespoon of Olive Oil in a big pot, Throw in one chopped onion and as much chopped garlic as your family would like. Let those soften a little then throw your ground beef in and brown. Next dump every can in and do not drain. Throw in your seasoning packets and as much salt and pepper as your family would like for taste. Add your beer of choice and one extra can of water and let it simmer.
When you go to serve garnish with Shredded Cheese, jalapeños, sour cream, and chives and serve it up with a nice slice of cornbread! Oh so Good!
What kind of soup do you like? I would love to know!
xo,
Amy