• Recipe: Pizza Cups

    Pizza Cup

    Our family enjoys pizza cups.  This main dish contains only 4 ingredients and easy to put together.  You can make them from scratch or if you have leftover spaghetti or lasagna meat sauce you can make these pretty quickly.  These are simple, fun, and delicious for the family to eat for dinner (plus you can use up some of your leftovers).  The girls like helping put these pizza cups together and taking them to school.

    Pizza Cups:

    • 1/2 pound lean Ground Beef
    • 1/2 (12 oz) jar Spaghetti Sauce
    • 1  (8 count) can Biscuits
    • 4 oz shredded Mozzarella Cheese
    • Pepperoni Slices (optional)

    Brown the ground beef in a pan, drain the excess oil.  Add the spaghetti sauce to the meat and heat until begins to boil then turn down to simmer.  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Cut the biscuits in half, flatten them, and press them into a greased cupcake cups (16 count).  Use an ice cream scoop and put the meat mixture into the biscuit cup, sprinkle shredded cheese over it, and bake for 10 minutes (or until the cheese melts).

    Whole Biscuit

    Cut the biscuits in half

    Biscuits pressed into a cupcake pan.

    Scoop meat sauce mixture into the individual biscuit cups.

    Sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese over the meat mixture

    Baked Pizza Cup

  • Recipe: Beef Enchiladas

    It has been a long time since I have made enchiladas, but a few weeks ago I picked up some Corn Tortillas on clearance for $0.50 and as I was looking for a good recipe to use them with when enchiladas came to mind.  In the past I have used regular flour tortillas to make enchiladas so this was a new one for me.  The recipe I am sharing is adapted from Rockin Robin’s Cooking Mexican Recipes.  I didn’t make the sauce from scratch as they suggested (mine came from cans we already had in the pantry).  I added extra hamburger to our recipe and I used a mix of cheeses (mozzarella, cheddar, and swiss) because much to my surprise our shredded cheese was running low.  The recipe turned out delicious!  I made half for us to eat for dinner and froze the other half for a busy day later in the month or to share with someone.   The girls had two helpings and LOVED the enchiladas! Brina was a huge help in putting them together, thankful for my little kitchen helper.

    Beef Enchilada Recipe:

    • 2 pounds Ground Hamburger
    • 1/4 cup chopped Sweet Onion
    • 2 cans Enchilada Sauce
    • 12 Corn Tortillas
    • 12 oz shredded Cheddar, Mozzarella, Swiss Cheese (you can use a combination or just one type)

    1.  Cook your ground hamburger with chopped onions and seasonings of your choice (I cooked our hamburger in the crockpot during the day while we were at work and school. I did add the onions with a touch of taste seasoning and garlic to the ground hamburger.)  Once your hamburger is cooked drain the oil and set aside.

    2.  Put the cans of Enchilada Sauce in a sauce pan and set on simmer so it is warm (make sure the pan you chose is large enough to put a corn tortilla in it with the sauce.)

    3.  Preheat a deep fryer to 350 degrees or put about 1/2 inch of oil in a frying pan and heat.  Once the oil is hot submerge one corn tortilla in the oil for 10 to 30 seconds until it starts to bubble. (Make sure to take it out once it starts bubbling because it could get too hard and you will not be able to roll your enchilada).

    4.  Remove the corn tortilla from the oil let it drip for a few seconds then put it into the enchilada sauce, flip it over to coat both sides.  Add the hamburger in the middle of the corn tortilla and roll.  Put it immediately into the baking dish.  Continue until all enchiladas are done.

    5.  Cover the rolled enchiladas with remaining sauce and cover with shredded cheese.  Bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the sauce is bubbling.

    Enchilada's covered in cheese

    Our family enjoys cheese!  Brina had fun helping “spread” the cheese over the enchilada’s!

    One batch of enchiladas for dinner the other went into the freezer for a busy day later this month or to share with someone else.

    I enjoy being able to stock the deep freezer with some good meals whenever possible.  If I have the items necessary I will often make a double batch or split the recipe for dinner by making half for dinner and freezing the other half for a busy day in the future.  Our church makes meals for families with newborns or when family members are in the hospital or have surgery.  It helps having a few extra homemade meals in the freezer available to share with those around us.