Chicken and Cheese Enchiladas with Rice!

So my good friend gave me the best recipe ever to my favorite food! I forgot to take a picture with the food plated...I was too hungry! We all just dug right in. You get the jist of it though. I was starving when I was preparing it so I thought we needed WAY more food than we actually did. This meal is very very filling. I have a pretty big appetite but I can only eat about 2 enchiladas and a small portion of the rice.

Ingredients for the Enchiladas
2 large boneless chicken breast
Corn Tortillas
1 can of corn
1 can of black beans
1 large bag of a mexican mix of shredded cheese
1 large block of Velveta style Cheese with Queso, I used one our local grocery store has called Queso Blanco
vegetable oil

The Enchilada Sauce:
2 packets of powder enchilada mix
3 cups water
a couple tablespoons of sugar
2 8 oz cans of tomato sauce
(basically everything thats on the back of the packet just follow those instructions but add sugar)

I boiled the chicken breast for about 30 min, then put in my blender and shredded small amounts at a time.
Drained the cans of corn and beans. Mixed them together in a bowl.
Prepared the enchilada sauce in a medium size sauce pan. In a larger frying pan I put a good amount of oil and let it get hot, then dipped the corn tortilla in it just for a couple seconds to soften it up then dip it in the enchilada sauce then put it in the baking dish. I had my shredded cheese, corn and beans, and chicken ready to go, start adding that small, very small amounts to the tortilla wrap it up and lay it vertically in a baking dish. Continue till youve made all you want :) We made WAY too many. 30 for just 4 people. We'll have leftovers for days! Once you finish wrapping them all up pour the remaining sauce over the top of your enchiladas. Take you block of cheese with the queso in it, and break it up over the enchiladas. Have your oven preheated to 350 and cook uncovered for about 30 min. Your mainly letting the cheese melt. So make sure your chicken is cooked during the boiling process.

One thing I left out is the fact that you need to season your chicken. Once youve cooked and shredded it add salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

The Rice..
Ingredients:
Jasmine Rice
8oz tomato sauce
1 Chicken Bouillon Cube
2 Cups water
Garlic Powder


I put all of the above ingredients in my rice cooker mixed it up and let it cook. Once it was done I tasted it and added more garlic powder if it needed it. So you will know what taste good to you. Thats it!! Its delicious and so so filling

Beef Stew From Allrecipes.com

So for dinner tonight I made a quick and easy beef stew in the crock pot. Majority of the meals that I make are made in our crock pot. Its quick. Its easy. Its good. When you dont have much time for slaving away in the kitchen the crock pot is the way to go. I got this recipe from allrecipes.com I altered it a bit though. I didnt have celery on hand so thats one thing thats missing. I only had about 1 lb of stew meat instead of two like it called for. It still is super good though. Usually when it comes to potatoes I do one potato per person. So I used four I figured even though the baby isnt eating with us since Im nursing she still counts haha :p It turned out so good! I made some buttermilk biscuits to go with it and by made I mean I bought some store ones you pop open and in the oven hahaha! Here are the pictures and ingredients at the bottom

Ingredients:

1-2 Lbs Stew beef

Half of a large onion

1 Small bag of baby carrots

2 Cloves of garlic

1 Potato per person

Salt 

Pepper

paprika

Worcestershire sauce

1 Bay leaf  although I used shredded and just shook it in till it felt like enough

either enough beef stock to cover all the food or beef bouillon mixed with hot water 

I basically just tossed in the meat still frozen, cut up all the veggies then added them, I then did the beef stock, then the seasonings, let it cook on high for about 3 hrs then turned it down to low for about 2-3 hrs. Half way through I added a little bit more of each of the seasonings. I dont have measurements because I rarely go by them unless im baking. I just add it till it feels right. So you want to start out with a little and you can always add more. Just dont start out with a lot because its hard to fix that. You can always add more though. as Alton Brown would say " Now thats Gooooood Eats!"