Enchilada Pie

I miss a lot of things about Washington, I'm not going to lie. One of the things I miss is recipe club. About 20 of us would get together every month or two (depending on the month), you would be assigned a category...appetizer, main dish, side dish, or dessert. Then you would make your dish, bring the recipe and come for a night of food and friends. I think I will eventually start my own recipe club up here. We had some real foodies in the group, so I got several real "keeper" recipes.

Some nights were incredible, some nights not so much. I would take everybody's recipe that night (so as not to make anybody feel bad ;) but honestly some I would recycle and NOT put into my recipe binder. Sorry, but it's true. Only the goodies go in there. You know...only the ones I really loved. I made Heather Schow's Enchilada Pie again the other night and felt that it was blog worthy. I changed it up a little bit from her original recipe, and it was so stinking good+easy+low clean up!! So here follows my version of the Enchilada Pie:

1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 onion, chopped
1 (8 oz) can tomato sauce
2 (15 oz) can mild green chile enchilada sauce (a change from the original, adds a different flavor from the regular red sauce)
1/2 cup water
a bunch of corn tortillas **I think I used about 15-20** You could use flour tortillas, that's one of the changes I made, but it's NOT as good...I do enjoy the corn tortillas!
3 cups mozzarella and Colby Jack cheese (total)

Brown meat and onion in large skillet (I use a large cast iron skillet so it's a one pot deal). Drain off grease (I cooked the meat until it was mostly done, put it in a colander and drained THEN added onion and finished cooking, that way you get rid of most of the fat, but still have the onion flavor infused into the meat) Add tomato sauce, enchilada sauce, and water. Simmer for 15 minutes. Remove 2/3 of the sauce into another bowl. Leave 1/3 of the sauce in the skillet, layer on top of that corn tortillas (enough to form a layer covering the whole skillet with some over lapping), then 1/3 of the sauce, cheese; then repeat. Cover and simmer on low for 15 minutes until heated through. Slice pizza style into triangles. Serve with sides of shredded lettuce, sour cream, olives, tomatoes, or anything else that you fancy.

It's good stuff!

Change of Heart

Excuse the bags under my eyes in this pictures. It was our last day of moving AND I was saying goodbye to my friend Julie. Not a very good day.

We have lived in this new ward since July 1st ish. Scott got a calling a while ago, but I had not. A woman called and asked me on Sunday if I wouldn't mind subbing for her in nursery on Sunday...strange, I thought, that she would ask me of all the people in the ward to choose from and all of the parents of the children in nursery...I had this feeling...I already had an appointment for before church set up to meet with a bishopric counselor. I already knew something was coming. While I was getting ready for church, I knew what my new calling was going to be. I even told Scott that's what it was going to be. He kind of laughed and said I was totally jumping to conclusions. How could I jump to that conclusion with that little bit of information??

Because, somebody was helping prepare me, that's why. I might have cried if he sprung that one on me totally unaware. I didn't want to be in nursery. Didn't want to be isolated in nursery in a brand new ward. Nope, no thank you. Scott didn't give me what I was looking for when I told him. He was way too supportive and positive. ;) I texted my friend Julie and she gave me exactly what I needed and wanted to hear. She did manage to make me smile. Felt a little better. Still moaned and groaned a large part of yesterday.



But I woke up this morning feeling much better. Dare I say change of heart??? We will see. But I am looking on the internet getting some fun ideas. Wish me luck. After all, if I'm going to do something, I might as well do one hell of a job!!