Steak Flauta Enchiladas

This is a non-homemade meal, but its quick and easy!

Ingredients:

1 pkg. steak flautas(I get mine from costco)

1 can red enchilada sauce

2 cups cheddar cheese

sour cream to put on top(optional)

Make It:

Preheat oven to 350. In a large casserole dish, pour enough enchilada sauce on bottom of pan to cover. Line all flautas in bottom of pan, any way they will fit. Pour rest of sauce over flautas. Sprinkle all cheese on top, and bake until cheese is bubbly. Enjoy!

Homemade Diced Tomatoes

This makes 2 1/2 cups of tomatoes. Take 10 roma tomatoes cut the stem end off then cut in half. With a spoon scoop out seeds and place skin side up on a cookie sheet. Turn broiler on high. Drizzle some olive oil over the top of tomatoes and toss around so they are coated. Place under broiler for ten minutes.

Take them out when the skins are wrinkly. And look like this.
Allow to cool then remove skins and chop up tomatoes to desired consistency. Enjoy!

Jambalaya

This is my recipe for jambalaya, it is not traditional, but my family loves it and hopefully yours will too!

Ingredients:

1 small onion diced

2 stalks celery diced

1 bell pepper diced

2 garlic cloves diced

2 tblsp. butter

1 ham steak cut into small cubes

1 28oz can diced tomatoes

10 1/2 oz beef broth

1 cup brown rice

1 cup water

1 teas sugar

1 teas dried thyme

1 teas chili powder

1/4 teas pepper

4 cheddarwurst sausages sliced

Make It:

In a large pot, saute onion, celery, green pepper, and garlic in butter until tender. Add next nine ingredients. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for an hour, stirring occasionally, until rice is tender. Add sausages cover and cook another ten minutes or until sausages are heated through. Enjoy!

Applesauce

Ingredients:

8- 10 apples we have had fuji the last two weeks so thats what I used but you can use any kind that is sweet.

water

Make It:

Put enough water in bottom of big pot to cover about 3 inches. Place steamer basket in pot. Bring to a boil. Core and quarter all the apples. Once water is boiling put apples in steamer basket, reduce heat and steam until apples are tender, about 30 minutes. Remove apples from heat and let cool. Put half the apples in the blender with some of the steaming water, blend until smooth. Add the rest of the apples and more water if needed, blend until smooth. Enjoy!

Halloween food Pictures

This is the worms and cheese(homemade mac and cheese with cavatappi noodles).

Chicken fingers(chicken tenders soaked in buttermilk all day then dredged in seasoned flour and shallow fried and finished in the oven).
I forgot to take pics before we starting eating, but you get the idea!

Mike made these rice crispie skulls!

Menu for November 2nd - November 8th

I have decided to try a new recipe from a cookbook or blog every week. I will post the recipe, then the picture then let you know what the family thought. This week the recipe will be from Rachael Ray.

I'm also going to try to theme monday nights dinners on foods and recipes enjoyed in the town the monday night football game is played in.

MNF game Atlanta vs. New Orleans

Monday- Jambalaya, green salad

Tuesday- Pork loin chop, mashed red potatoes, homemade applesauce

Wednesday- Recipe day: Pepper & onion stoup with chicken sausages and sun dried tomato-basil gobble-ums

Thursday- Steak stir fry, sticky rice

Friday- Take out

Saturday- Steak flauta enchiladas, fruit salad

Sunday- Baked penne, sauteed spinach

Dessert of the week: Apple Pie

Abundant Harvest Box and Farmers Market

It was a really good box this week, lots of new stuff!

1 head red leaf lettuce, 1 head napa cabbage, 5 baby turnips, 7 small zucchini, lots of red potatoes, 1 pound of spinach, 4 shallots, lots of pears, 12 persimmons, 1 bunch dill, 3 eggplant, 1 butternut squash. At the farmers market I picked up mushrooms, red and yellow onions, apples, green beans, and 3 red bell peppers( i'm thinking the bell peppers are going to be ending soon so i'm trying to stock up).

We are making applesauce again this week, the kids ate everything we made in two days last week. I also bought another 20 pounds of tomatoes, so I will be busy cooking those up this week.