Breakfast Burritos

My husband has been asking me for a week now to make breakfast burritos. So being the wonderful wife that I am, I went to Safeway and filled my basket with the ingredients needed for his favorite Mexican breakfast.

Breakfast Burritos:

1 tube of sausage
4 medium sized potatoes
1/2 cup salsa (recipe on previous post)
1/4 cup onion
1 tbs cilantro
8 eggs
1 tbs garlic
salt/pepper to taste
1 dozen tortillas
shredded cheese

I cook my potatoes in the microwave for baked potatoes just to speed it up. Otherwise fry your potatoes and put them aside.

Brown sausage, onions, salsa, garlic and salt & pepper in large frying pan (I use my GE electric skillet.) Add eggs & pre-cooked potatoes.

Roll ingredients in a warmed tortilla with a little shredded cheese.

After Thanksgiving Blues?

So we have stuffed ourselves silly! The dishes are done...Christmas shopping has started...Christmas decorating has gone amuck and what to do with all of those leftovers? I know that if you are in my house, turkey sandwiches only go so far. I would love to have everyone share their Thanksgiving leftover recipes. I will be posting mine in the next couple of days, please feel free to share yours!

Chicken Tortilla Soup

I made Chicken Tortilla Soup today. I keep on mentioning that these are family favorites, so I must make a lot of favorites!

 

 

Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe:

 

• 4 chicken breasts
• 3 cups Salsa (I used my leftovers from a previous posted recipe)
• 1 TBS minced garlic
• ¼ cup diced onion
• ¼ cup green chili
• ½ cup cilantro (I used dried---I didn’t have any fresh on hand)
• 3 TBS cumin
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 5 cups chicken broth (I use the water that I boil the chicken in)
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• White corn chips
• Garnish with shredded cheese

 

I put the chicken on to boil in about 6 cups of water. Then I brown the onions, garlic, cilantro, cumin, chili powder, salt & pepper and green chili together. I remove the chicken, de-bone it and chop it. Then I place all of the ingredients together minus the corn chips and shredded cheese. I boil it for about ½ an hour and it’s done! I then Garnish with crumbled chips and cheese. Today I used mozzarella because that it what I had on hand….I usually use cheddar, but this tasted great as well.

 

Try it and let me know what you think!

Birthday Dinner for Michael Jr.

Well Michael is 17 officially today.  I always make the same thing for him. His favorites:  hamburgers, mashed potatoes & shrimp.  Doesn't sound like it goes well together, but he sure likes it.

When I barbeque hamburgers, I mix spices into the hamburger before creating the patties.  I use garlic powder and montreal seasoning and simply mix it in.  You can't imagine the difference by mixing it in!

Shrimp is one of my favorite dishes, but it is usually expensive!  So I buy it when it is on sale.  I happened to purchase this shrimp for $5 at WalMart, which is pretty darn cheap for shrimp.  I hate how restaurants saturate shrimp with butter.  I cook mine a little different.  I simply put olive oil and garlic salt in a skillet, then put in the shrimp.  I cook it on medium, covered for about 5 minutes.  You can't imagine how amazing it tastes.  And it doesn't feel like I'm eating a stick of butter!

A hint on making mashed pototoes:  I use my kitchenaid.  It is so easy!  Put in the potatoes, stick of butter, a little salt and milk.  Turn on the mixer and all done!  Can't beat that and it is easier than hand mashing them any day!

Top it all off with a chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting and this has been Michael's birthday dinner for years. 

I'll be honest, Michael is not a big fan of my cooking.  He is a meat and potatoes type of guy and he doesn't like his food touching.  So anything that I make mixing any ingredients he is stand offish about.  Thankfully there is something that I can make that he likes!

Oh So Good Salsa!!

My husband was craving salsa this afternoon, so being the wonderful wife that I am, I made him salsa that was cheap!

I used my cans of tomatoes that I bought at Frys last week for 29 cents a can.

Recipe:

4 cans of tomatoes
1/4 red onion (love red onion--double the flavor means I use half the amount of onion, if you use a yellow or white onion, I would use 1/2 of an onion.)
1/2 bunch of fresh cilantro
4 oz green chile
2 tbs minced garlic
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp red chile paper

I put the onion & cilantro in the food processor with the seasonings, once it is chopped, I put the green chile & tomatoes in on pulse twice, just to mix everything up.

I made a slew of salsa for less than $4...compared to a jar of salsa-->quite a bit less than what I made is $4 a jar.

Oh I hate to say it again but I have to: yum yum!

Pizza for less than $5

Who needs Delivery? Why pay the prices that Pizza Hut & Dominos demand? I made two extra large pizzas today for less than $5 and it was better than delivery and it wasn't even DiGiorno's!

I used the following EASY no rise dough from allrecipes.com (my favorite place for recipes on the net!) http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pizza-Dough-I/Detail.aspx



I made one cheese & another veggie...I was trying to duplicate Dominos American Legends Pacific Veggie and I think I did a pretty good job of it. I used my FREE Ragu sauce, my 99 cent cheese and I just grabbed veggies that I had in the fridge and used my handy dandy canned tomatoes. FANTASTIC doesn't describe it enough!

Let me know what you think~

Count Down to Thanksgiving!

I know, isn't it crazy that it is Thanksgiving time already? It seems like we just finished taking down the Christmas tree from last year. This year is bitter sweet for me. Last year was my last Thanksgiving with my mother. She passed away two weeks later from breast cancer.

Anyhow, I always cook for Thanksgiving. I am one of those crazy people who look forward to Thanksgiving and try to one up the year before....so I need your help. I am looking for the perfect addition to our traditional Turkey dinner.

So ladies...and I suppose gentlemen if you are out there: Your mission has been set, are you up for it? I'm looking forward to all of the new additions that you will post. Once I've had the Turkey Day feast, I will post what my husbands family thinks of it.

My mouth is already watering with anticipation!!