La enchilada! La enchilada! La la la la la la lah! Oh hi! I’m just singing our enchilada song which has nothing to do with anything except that I like to sing it when I’m making enchiladas. I’ll have Bug sing it for you in a movie one of these days. Anyway, this is it: the green enchiladas. I overcooked them a little bit but anything can be covered up with some homemade pico de gallo and avocado. Avocado heals all in my book.

I think this recipe came from CC or my mom but I’ve altered it over the years to include more vegetables and whole wheat tortillas—which, by the way, Toby informed me last night taste like cardboard. But then Toby and I disagree on a lot of things when it comes to taste so I say ignore him. I think whole wheat tortillas taste great.

Without further ado, the ingredients:

Directions:

1. Get up at the crack of dawn and put your chicken in a crock-pot with 2/3 can of enchilada sauce. (Don’t be like me and forget to save out that last third for the topping later)
2. Smell the yummy chicken cooking on low all day long.
3. Later in the day, when the chicken is all cooked, get out your 9×13 baking dish (or two 8×8’s) for assembly.



4. Remove chicken pieces from the crock-pot (leave the sauce in) and place them on a cutting board. With two forks, shred your chicken and then return it to the pot.



5. Chop up all your peppers and celery. You can sauté them if you like your vegetables more caramelized. Personally, I can’t really tell the difference.
6. Make yourself a margarita to keep you going, if you like.
7. Add your peppers, celery, cheese (save some for later topping) and can of black beans to your crock pot for mixing
8. Mix thoroughly.
9. Assemble your enchiladas by scooping 1/4 cup of cheesy chicken-vegetable mixture into a tortilla. Roll it up and place seam-side down in the pan. Repeat, placing the rolls snugly next to each other, until pan is full.
10. Pour the rest of your saved enchilada sauce on top, sprinkle with some cheese and olives to your taste.



11. Bake at 350 F until cheese and sauce bubbles (about 30 minutes)

Garnish it with some homemade pico de gallo and avocado and you’re done. Our pico de gallo is basically just tomato relish (for Bug who doesn’t like it too spicy) but I recommend this recipe.

And now a word about my cooking skills. I know I said I’m a horrible cook. Don’t let the pretty photos fool you. Let’s just say I’m a much a better photographer and food stager than I am a cook. What you don’t know from these pictures the last few days is that the pork in the stir-fry was so chewy Bug refused to eat it, the meatballs were pretty tasteless since I didn’t add enough salt and pepper and the enchiladas were dry and crispy. I don’t think these are problems with the recipes, it’s just me and my distracted way of doing things. I’m sure these recipes will turn out much better for you.

There’s a reason I made super-healthy stir-fry pork and vegetables yesterday. It was because I made super-unhealthy sour-cream sauce meatballs today. I don’t know where this recipe came from. Maybe I made it up. My grandma (Hi Gramma!) made Swedish meatballs a lot for us when I was a kid but I never got the hang of her mushroom soup sauce. I know she’s told me how to make it a million times but this sauce seems to work pretty well for me. Also, Toby likes it. He’s pretty picky about certain things tasting like they came out of a can so this works for us.

How bad is it to cook with three giant heaping serving-size spoons full of sour cream anyway? I never asked. Is it as bad as creamy alfredo sauce? Worse? I’m sure there is a way you could make this lighter. I do add milk sometimes to make it go further.

So for those of you hopeless cooks like me looking for new recipes, or for those of you who just want to laugh at me, here is the makeshift recipe:

Ingredients:

Directions:

1. Make sure you remember to get your hamburger out of the freezer the night before or the morning of. It’s impossible to make meatballs with frozen meat. Or at least that is my experience. Microwaving it never really works that great for me.
2. Mix the hamburger, egg, chopped onion, and ground-up stuffing or breadcrumbs. Add oregano, garlic salt and pepper to your taste. (We like a lot of pepper in our house.) Mix mix mix. If you have a helper on hand, enlist her! Just make sure she washes her hands.



3. Make meatballs. This is pretty self explanatory, no?



4. Heat a little bit of olive oil in a skillet and sauté the meatballs.
5. When meatballs are done, drain excess oil. Or leave it in if you like heart attacks. Sometimes I do. Heh.
6. Add three giant scoops of sour cream and roll your meatballs around in it. Cook for 1 minute.
7. Add pretty snipped herbs from your garden (English Thyme for me) so that your meatballs don’t look like mushy white balls of grossness.



8. Serve with boiled potatoes and a salad and enjoy!

That’s all I got! Tomorrow: green enchiladas! Get your crockpots out!