The week all my recipes were inspired by pinterest...

Sunday

Mexican Pie and Spanish Rice

This was prob my favorite thing I made the whole week! It was SO easy!

Recipe:

preheat over to 35o degrees

cook up 1lb of ground beef with chopped onions and taco seasoning

use 1/2 can enchilada sauce on bottom of pan

then put down soft taco shell (lay flat)

layer cheese, refried beans, can tomatoes with chiles and meat mixture

lay down another shell and repeat layering until all ingredients used

top with cheese and bake 25 mins

top with tomatoes, green onions and black olives. I dip in guac, Jer uses sour cream.

spanish rice:

I use uncle bens and sub water with veggie broth (I use swansons) and add canned italian tomatoes.

Monday

Chicken, mushroom, and artichoke lasagna (recipe)

I did not like this recipe, too much cream cheese for my taste. This would be EXCELLENT using alfredo sauce!

Tuesday

Shrimp and mushroom pasta (recipe)

I used angel hair pasta but I would def recommend the pasta they used because it does make a difference in the amount of starch in the water. (which you will need in the recipe.) I also added salt and pepper and a little more garlic then recommended. I would recommend also seasoning the shrimp before adding it to the pasta. overall this was good. Jer seemed to like it!

Wednesday

Chicken enchiladas

I used leftovers to make these. I shredded rotisserie chicken, used the left over enchilada sauce and tomatoes. These were easy to make and very yummy!

Thursday

Traditional Lasagna

(It looks funny because I cooked it on Monday but I guess I hadn't let it cool off long enough so when I pulled the top off my pyrex the top of the lasagna came with it! ) :(

I brown ground beef with chopped onions and italian seasons

boiled whole wheat lasagna noodles

then mixed pasta sauce, meat mixture and fresh cooked mushrooms in one bowl

mixed riccotta, parm, mozz cheese and italian seasonings in another bowl

then the layering began...

put pasta sauce on bottom of pan

put down 3 noodles

put down some meat mixture

put down some cheese mixture

repeated until 12 noodles were used

finished by putting cheese mixture on top

baked at 350 for 35-40 mins until cheese was bubbly and melted

Friday

LEFTOVERS!!

(or maybe takeout?) :)

I loved having homemade meals, but it did get exhausting cooking and doing LOTS of dishes after working FT! (along with having a clingy, teething baby who would cry every time I would put her down! ) At least this weekend I won't have to cook! We have LOTS of leftovers! :)