Chicken Enchiladas with a Green Chile Cream Cheese Sauce

Christy's Chicken Enchiladas 

with a Green Chile Cream Cheese Sauce

Okay, these are seriously so delicious that I had to stick my name on them! I totally winged the cream cheese sauce the first time I made it, then wrote the recipe down after my first mouthwatering bite, so I wouldn't forget. These beat any restaurant enchiladas I've ever had. I used a corn/flour combo tortilla I got from Sprout's, but they would work great with a traditional flour or corn too.

Christy's Chicken Enchiladas with a Green Chile Cream Cheese Sauce Recipe

Serves: 6-8

Ingredients:

6-8 flour or corn tortillas

2 chicken breasts

1-1/2 cup shredded monterey jack cheese, divided

1-1/2 cup chicken stock

1/2 cup diced onion

4 oz can chopped green chilies

4 oz reduced fat cream cheese

1/2 teaspoon garlic salt

1/2 teaspoon oregano

1/2 teaspoon cumin 

1 teaspoon corn starch (optional)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Season chicken breast with garlic slat, oregano, and cumin.  In a medium saute pan, cook chicken and diced onions over low heat until the juices run clear. 

Remove chicken and set aside, do not drain juices.  Add chicken stock, green chilies, and cream cheese to the saute pan.  Bring to a boil, stirring frequently.  Reduce heat to a simmer and stir occasionally, until the sauce starts to thicken.  Stir in corn starch as for a creamier consistency. 

Shred the chicken and mix in 1/2 cup of jack cheese.  If using corn tortillas, warm each one on a heated pan, about 10 seconds on each side (this will keep them from breaking apart when you roll them.)  Add a scoop of the meat and cheese mixture to the center of each tortilla and roll them up.  Line them up in a baking dish, sides touching.  Pour the cream cheese sauce over the top of the enchiladas and top with remaining jack cheese.

Bake for 20 minutes, then broil on high for 3 minutes to brown cheese topping.

ENJOY!!!

Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed Peppers with Mozzarella

Just look at them, enough said.

My husband said they taste like a mix between spaghetti, goulash, and lasagna, he loved them. I just fed my kids the inside filling topped with cheese and they were big fans too!

Stuffed Peppers with Mozzarella Recipe
Serves: 4

Ingredients:
4 bell peppers
1 pound lean ground beef or turkey
3- 8 ounce cans tomato sauce
3/4 cup water, divided
1 cup shredded mozzarella
1/2 diced onion
1/2 cup instant brown rice
1/2 teaspon garlic salt
salt and pepper

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bring a stock pot full of salted water to a boil.

Season ground meat with garlic salt, and saute it with the onions in a medium saute pan, drain the grease. Add two 8 oz cans of tomato sauce, rice, and 1/2 cup water to the cooked meat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium low and cover until the rice has absorbed the water, and the mixture has thickened.

Slice the top off the bell peppers, remove the seeds from the insides.  Boil the peppers whole for 5 minutes.

Add 1/4 cup water and one can of tomato sauce to the bottom of a baking dish.

Fill the peppers with the meat and rice mixture, top each with 1/4 cup of mozzarella, place them in the baking dish. Cover with foil and bake for 25 minutes (I used extra foil to make a tent so the foil didn't touch the tops of the peppers). Broil on high for 3 minutes to brown the cheese.

*To make them a little more 'clean', you can use lean ground turkey, and omit or reduce the amount of mozzarella.  You can also use a regular brown rice, cook it first and then add it to the meat mixture, but omit the 1/2 cup of water.

Lexi's Unciorn Party

A Good Ole' Ranch Style 5th Birthday

Phoebe's classmate and our neighbor Lexi, recently celebrated her 5th Birthday at Ranch 181 in Bixby.  This is a great Birthday Party venue, all you bring is food and cake and they do the rest.  They even dressed the horses up like unicorns, the kids thought it was so cool!

I miraculously remembered to bring my camera in hopes of getting some good shots of the girls riding ponies.  Here are a few of my party favorites:

More info on the venue: 181 Ranch

Unicorn cake pops are from Irene's Cake Pops by Irene Williams, 918-633-6966.

You can find her on FB: Irene's Cake Pop

Ye-haw!

Homemade Meatballs

My Homeamade Meatball Recipe

Get the recipe here: Moms of Tulsa

 Ciao!

Oklahoma Winter Snow 2015

Oklahoma Winter Snow 2015

 I was really expecting a big snow this year, and we didn't get it (insert sad face).  But, we did get enough to bundle the girls up and play, and that's what really matters!  This was Sophia's first real snow, that she's old enough to remember, and old enough to really play in, so it was special.  There's just nothing like snow (except roller skates), that brings back a flood of childhood memories.  

Thankful for our yearly Oklahoma snows:)

Happy snow day!