Tag: easy

Enchiladas

Nothing fancy here.

What you need:

Several cans of beans – you know your family’s appetites, I don’t.

Spices. Cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and anything else you like. It really is up to you.

Cheese, medium cheddar or less (sharp is oily as fuck) or get the “Mexican” mix – get stuff that tastes good for the love of god.

Tortillas – how many do you want to eat?

Green salsa – yes I know it’s not the enchilada sauce in a can but this tastes way better and is a little spicy, we like Herdez Salas Verde, mild. Yes, even my kids who don’t like spicy like it.

Once again this is about how much your family eats. Mine eats about 10 tortillas worth (2 adults, 3 kids). This is also about 3 cans of beans and a large block of Tillamook Medium Cheddar. The whole block!

Mix the beans, spices, cheese together. Save some cheese. Spread on tortillas and fold the damn things up. Put them in a large glass baking dish, and dump the salsa on top. Top with the rest of the cheese . Bake at 3500F till you see bubbles and the cheese is melted.

Eat your hearts out.

I hate leftovers but the kids will eat enchiladas for days so I always try to make enough for a lunch or two of leftovers. Then I don’t have to think about those meals. Sometimes I get so fucking tired of thinking of meals for everyone. Why cant they just eat cheese and crackers and salami? Nooooo we have to have veggies and other things.

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Roasted tomatoes and garlic

This is one of my favorites! It is an easy and fucking tasty combination that can be used in versatile ways.

Take cherry tomatoes of different colors (because it looks pretty goddammit) and peeled garlic (I like to buy the bags so I don’t have to spend hours peeling garlic). I don’t mean one clove or even one head. You want about 1/3 as much garlic to your tomatoes. So for 2 small containers of cherry tomatoes it’s probably close to 3 heads of garlic.

Toss the garlic and tomatoes in olive oil and salt and put on a sheet pan. I use parchment paper because, like all good mothers, I don’t like to clean.

Put in oven at 3500 F until the tops of everything are light brown.

This dish just makes me happy. In part because it’s really hard to fuck up! The most likely way is to burn them, so…don’t. And it always tastes good.

You can eat them:

  • Straight as a side.
  • Put them in pasta with a little more oil and salt and parmesan.
  • Put them on bread (focaccia, ciabatta, Baggett, whatever you fucking want) with mozzarella and basil as a meal (depending on how big a piece of bread you use.) Look on Instagram for my last use of this dish.
  • Any fucking way you want.

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