Cheese Enchiladas

I saw this recipe online and I took a screenshot of it, made it and loved it but I'm not sure where it came from so I can't give credit where credit is due.

Ingredients for enchilada sauce
2 T. olive oil
2 T. flour
1 1/2 cups chicken stock (I use Better Than Bouillon chicken base dissolved in water)
15 ounces tomato sauce
2 T. tomato paste
2 T. chili powder
1 tea. cumin
1 tea. onion powder
1/2 tea. garlic powder
1/4 tea. smoked paprika
1/4 tea. salt
1/4 tea. pepper

Heat the oil in a saucepan over medium heat, whisk in the flour and cook until it is golden brown, about 2 minutes.  Add the remaining ingredients and whisk together bringing the mixture to a simmer.  Reduce the heat to low and cook for 5 more minutes before using

other ingredients 
12 ounces queso chihuahua cheese, grated (I used Cotija cheese)
8 ounces white cheddar cheese, grated
12 warmed corn tortillas, 4 inch size

Preheat the oven to 375.  Spray a 9x13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.  Take about 1/2 cup of the enchilada sauce and spread it on the bottom of the dish.  Take a large plate and add 1/2 cup of the enchilada sauce on it.

Take each tortilla and dip it into the enchilada sauce on the plate.  Fill it with a handful of the cheese (I mix the cheese together).  Roll up the tortilla and place it in the dish.  When you have rolled all of them,  cover the tortillas with the remaining sauce.  Sprinkle with the remaining cheese.  Bake for 20 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly and melty

Serve with sliced avocado and sour cream on top

Stuffed Spaghetti Squash

Cooked chicken, chopped or shredded
2 medium spaghette squash
8 oz canned chopped green chilies
4 lite Laughing Cow cheese wedges
1/2 cup black beans, drained
1 cup enchilada sauce
shredded mozzarelia cheese, or really any cheese that will melt
avacado
green onions

Heat oven to 425 .  cut each squash in half lengthwise and scrape out the seeds.  Sprinkle the inside with olive oil, salt and pepper.  Put on a cookie sheet, cut side down,  and roast for 45 minutes or until tender.  Let cool.

Combine the chicken, green chilis, cheese wedges and black beans in a bowl

Rake the cooked spaghette squash into a large bowl with a fork.  Place 1 cup of the spaghetti squash back into the shell and add 1/4 of the chicken mixture to each one.  Top each one with enchilada sauce and shredded cheese.  Bake at 350 for 10 minutes or until heated through.  Top with avacado slices and green onions.

Mexican Corn

4 cups frozen sweet corn
1/2 onion, chopped
6 T. butter
1 tsp salt
1 tsp. pepper
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp. cumin
4 T. lime juice
4 T. mayo
3 T. Cotija cheese, grated

In a fry pan melt the butter and add the corn kernels.  Spread in an evan layer and cook until brown, stirring frequently.  The kernels will pop here and there.  Turn off heat and add remaining ingredients

 Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is not my regular chocolate chip cookie recipe.  This is my Corona Quarantine recipe, I don't feel like its really good the next day but it is sooooo good right out of the oven.  I make a batch of them, roll them into little balls and store them in the fridge in a tupperware.  I make 3 cookies every night for me, Russ and Jackie, then an hour later I make 3 more and then 3 more.....

1 cup butter, cold
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1tea. vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tea. baking soda
1 tea. baking powder
1 tea. salt
chocolate chips

In the bowl of an electric mixer with the paddle attachment beat the butter until smooth.  Add the sugars and beat until fluffy, about 2 minutes.  Scrape down the sides of the bowl.

Add the eggs one at a time, add the vanilla and mix for 30 seconds.

With the mixer on low speed, add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.  Mix until combined.

Mix in chocolate chips.  I'm lazy so I just mix my chocolate chips in the mixer.

Bake 2 at a time at 350 for 12 minutes, 1 hour later make 2 more, haha JK

Eggs

Hard Boiled Eggs 

LIFE CHANGING

Use the rack that comes with the pot

Place the eggs on the rack

Add one cup cold, warm or hot water to the pot

Place the lid on the pot

Using the manual setting adjust the timer to 5 minutes.

When the timer goes off, carefully release the pressure

Remove eggs and set in a bowl or sink filled with ice water or just run cold water over the eggs

Appetizer

Copycat Dodo Baked Cream Cheese Appetizer

Ingredients
4 oz cream cheese
1 cup soy sauce
toasted sesame seeds

 soften cream cheese by letting it come to room temperature.

Place the block of cream cheese in a flat bottom plastic bowl.

With a knife poke holes in the soft cream cheese and pour soy sauce all over it.

Let the cream cheese soak in the soy sauce.  Flip the block over so the soy sauce soaks in on all sides

Move the block to a new dish and  coat with  toasted sesame seeds.

Preheat oven to 250, place the cream cheese in an oven proof serving dish and warm for 10-15 minutes

Serve warm with crackers and thin slices of apple and pear

You can toast your sesame seeds in a dry pan, just watch them closely so they don't burn

Shrimp Boil

This is a fun summer dinner

Ingredients
Water for boiling
4 T. Old Bay Seasoning
8 oz baby potatoes, cut into halves
2 ears corn on the cob cut into 2 inch pieces
12 oz smoked sausage, cut into pieces
1 LB shrimp, shelled, deveined

Cajun Butter
6 T. unsalted butter, melted
1 1/2 T. Cajun seasoning (McCormick)

Instructions

Fill a tall stockpot halfway with water.  On high heat bring the water to a rolling boil.  Add the Old Bay Seasoning, followed by baby potatoes and corn.   Cover the pot and boil for 8-10 minutes or until the potatoes become tender.

In the meantime make the Cajun Butter by combining the melted butter with Cajun seasoning.  Stir to mix well and set aside.

Add the smoked sausage and shrimp, boil for 1 minute or until the shrimp turn pink (do not over cook the shrimp).

Remove the pot from heat and drain all the ingredients using a colander.  You may need to do it in two batches if your colander is not big enough.  Toss with the butter and transfer to a sheet pan to serve


498 calories per serving