Enchilada Casserole

 

Enchilada Casserole

I made BudgetBytes Not Refried Beans earlier this week, so we had a lot of beans to use. They are so good! So I thought I'd throw together an enchilada casserole. A casserole because it's much easier to do then rolling enchiladas while wrangling a 1 year old. Super good.

Ingredients:

- Corn tortillas, because that's what I had

- 1 lb ground beef, cooked with an onion then mixed with the 1/2 can chopped chilis

- 1/2 can green chilis, because I didn't want it too spicy for the baby

- Like 1 1/2 cups of the beans? I didn't measure

- Almost 2 cups of colby jack cheese

- 1 recipe of BudgetBytes enchilada sauce

I layered it like a lasagna, cooked at 350 for 30 min. I should have removed the foil and cooked it for another 10, but baby needed to go to bed, and husband can't help much because he just had surgery. You can top it with chopped onions, salsa, sour cream, hot sauce...whatever. Easy, quick and cheap. I've been making this sauce recipe for like a decade, it's so easy and delicious. I know it's even easier to open a can of sauce, but this tastes soooooo much better!

Click here for the Enchilada sauce recipe by BudgetBytes

Slow Cooker Mongolian Beef & Noodles

 

Slow Cooker Mongolian Beef & Noodles

This wasn't that great. And with beef being crazy expensive right now that kinda sucks. I mean we will still eat it but it's not that great lol. It kinda just tastes like beef and gravy? I ended up adding some frozen stir fry veggies just to get some veggies in us. I mean it's not gross, but it's pretty heavy and doesn't taste too much like any sort of Asian food. We topped it with sriracha, chili crisp and green onions.

Recipe from @coolkitchenbro on Tiktok

Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas

 

Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas

Again I forgot to get a picture, dinner time is chaotic with Linc now that' he's almost one. These were okay, they tasted too much like cream cheese we thought. Next time we'd half the cream cheese or honestly omit it all together and just add shredded cheese in the filling.

We really did like the flavor it just felt like a bit too much cream cheese :)

Click here for the recipe from The Everyday Cookbook

Slow Cooker Cowboy Butter Chicken Orzo

 

Slow Cooker Cowboy Butter Chicken Orzo

I forgot to get a picture of dinner again, its crazy now that Linc is 1 in a week so I hardly have time to cook, let alone take pictures lol. 

I made this recipe exactly as written, and we loved it. Ethan said I definitely need to make it again. My slow cooker finished cooking the chicken around 2-2.5 hours, it was super fast. Then the orzo took 40 minutes. So good and so flavorful!

Click here for the recipe from The Everyday Cookbook

Meatloaf with Herbed Rice & Veggies

 

Meatloaf with Herbed Rice & Veggies

Linc is almost 1 year old, and I still am not cooking as much as I was! This was just a basic 2lb meatloaf recipe with microwaved rice and steamed/microwaved veggies. Super good and pretty easy, the hardest part is waiting an hour for the meatloaf to be done.

Pork Tacos

 

Pork Tacos

So this started out being Easy Pork Carnitas, but I kept not being able to make dinner because of the baby....so Craig ended up just smoking the meat with seasonings. I think he used a fajita seasoning and some sort of chipotle seasoning. It was really good! So I just made tacos with cheese, lettuce, cilantro, onions and Cholula Chipotle Cremosa sauce. Super good and flavorful!

Here is the recipe for Pork Carnitas from Damn Delicious that we were going to make 

Parmesan Garlic Spaghetti from Damn Delicious

 

Parmesan Garlic Spaghetti

Super easy and delicious of course! My husband loved it, but he said it wasn't super filling.....which was suprising with all the butter and carbs lol. Next time maybe I'll serve it as a side to some chicken, but he did ask me to make it again which is actually kind of a rare thing. But it is a Damn Delicious recipe and he seems to always love those. I made it as written.

The broccoli was just steamable frozen broccoli with some Kinders Woodfired Garlic seasoning.

Click here for the Parm Garlic Spaghetti Recipe