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

 

Sheet Pan Tacos

These look like a mess but they were tasty. I didn't warm the tortillas quite enough before I filled them because some of them split, but they stuck together fine after cooking. I did make 2 changes to the recipe, I used lean ground beef and instead of rotel I used some of my husbands homemade smoked salsa. They were really good and my son loved them, and his friends came over the next day and had some too. My husband wasn't hungry so he didn't try them. I'd make them again for sure!

Click here for the recipe from BudgetBytes

Slow Cooker French Dips

 

Slow Cooker French Dips

Ingredients:

- 2ish lbs chuck roast

- 1 can beef consomme + can filled with water twice

- 1 packet au jus

- 2 onions

- garlic

- salt, pepper, sage leaf

- provolone

- hoagies

Super easy recipe and always delicious. Heat EVOO in pan and rub salt and pepper on chuck roast and sear in cast iron skillet until brown on all sides. Remove meat and put in slow cooker, then cook onions and garlic in the cast iron skillet and scrape up all the brown bits. Transfer to slow cooker and sprinkle the au jus over top. Pour on beef consomme and fill up the can twice with water, add a sage leaf and cook on low for 8 hours. Toast hoagies with provolone then done.

Beef Stew with Potatoes

 

Beef Stew with Potatoes

This was so good! I basically followed the recipe by Pioneer Woman. I didn't have any turnips or parsley, and I used baby carrots since I had so much. I also just made instant mashed potatoes because I have a 3 month old and can barely cook lol. I also added a can of golden mushroom soup since I had it. We all loved it.

Click here for the Beef Stew with Potatoes Recipe from Pioneer Woman.

The MM Sandwich, PW Style

 

The MM Sandwich, PW Style 

I make a sausage/bell pepper/onion hoagie sandwich a lot, and this reminded me of it....but better! I really liked it but next time I'll cut the steak into bite sized pieces instead of strips. I also slightly overcooked the steak but I wanted to make sure there was no pink since I wasn't sure if cubed steak was more related to ground beef or...steak. Ever since our food poisoning incident from medium Red Robin burgers, we make sure ground beef has zero pink.

 Everyone loved this! Besides halving the recipe, the only thing I did differently was we added "cowboy butter" seasoning to the meat. Served with frozen waffle fries. I made half the amount because for 2lbs of cubed steak it was $20, which was insane. But halving the recipe was perfect, it made enough for dinner plus at least 1 night of leftovers, maybe even 2.

Click here for the MM Sandwich, PW Style recipe from Pioneer Woman

Instant Pot Beef Gyros

 

Instant Pot Beef Gyros

I liked how easy this was but it was a bit bland, even though I added extra seasoning. As I put the leftovers away I added even MORE seasoning lol. The tzatziki I also added shredded cucumber and pretty much tripled the spices. I still would make it again because I love gyros.

Click here for the Instant Pot Beef Gyros recipe by Tastes Better From Scratch

Hello Fresh Meatloaves with Creamy Thyme Sauce

Hello Fresh Meatloaves with Creamy Thyme Sauce

   This was really good, I would definitely get this recipe again! I added some of the thyme sauce to the brussel sprouts because they were bland, and my husband, who hates brussel sprouts said they were "ok". So that's a win lol. This was my sons plate and he had some toast because I didn't think he'd eat the brussel sprouts. This would be easy to recreate and I never thought of making a thyme sauce like this before. 

 

Hello Fresh Firecracker Meatballs

Hello Fresh Firecracker Meatballs

My husband loves this, I thought it was just ok. I felt like the sauce was to mayo-y tasting. The red splatters are my husbands homemade sriracha! Hello Fresh always has delicious recipes, it's just soooo expensive! I mean I guess it's cheaper then going out, but I love that it's so convenient and I don't have to think about it. This post is not sponsored lol.