Sunday, May 22, 2011

New Recipe- Stacked Sweet Corn, Bean and Beef Casserole

I picked up the latest Better Homes and Garden Magazine (May 2011) a couple of weeks ago and came across a picture of a recipe that looked sooo good.  The recipe is featured in an article about the Mexican food creations of Joanne Weir.  It was fairly simple to make and made a ton of food.  The recipe is listed below as directed in the magazine along with my thoughts and take on it.

Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
2 ears of fresh corn (we used a large can of corn)
8 oz ground beef
7 oz uncooked chorizo sausage (which we left out)
15 oz can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
tbsp olive oil
small yellow onion
large yellow sweet pepper (our grocery store was out of yellow so we used a red pepper)
2 cloves of garlic
3/4 cup green salsa
tbsp chili powder
2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
4 flour tortillas (8-9")
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar or monterey jack cheese
sour cream
tomatoes and cilantro for garnishing

Cooking directions:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 375
Step 2: In a large skillet cook the beef and sausage, drain fat if needed.  Add the pinto beans to the beef and heat through.  Cover and set aside to keep warm.
Step 3: Chop the onion, pepper and garlic.  In another large skillet, heat olive oil and add the chopped veggies.  Add the corn, green salsa, chili powder, cayenne pepper, and cumin.  Stir mixture and the recipe says to heat for about 5 mins.  
Step 4: Spray a pan (we used round pizza pans) with cooking spray.  Lay one tortilla flat on each pan.  Top each with the meat and bean mixture.  We used about 1/2 cup of the cheese for topping this layer.  After adding the cheese, top each with another tortilla.  Top this layer with the veggie mixture and then add another 1/2 cup or so of cheese (or however much you like).  Top off this final layer with another tortilla.  
Step 5:  Cover both tortilla stacks with foil and bake for 10 minutes.  Uncover then sprinkle with 1/4 cup of cheese.  Bake for 10 more minutes (ours took less than 10 to melt).  Take out of the oven and let stand 10 minutes.  Top with sour cream, tomatoes, cilantro and anything else your heart desires.  

Here's how ours turned out:
This is just one of them! Makes a ton of food!

Look how thick it is!

Plated with a side of Mexican rice.  

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Busy busy!

Sorry I've been a long-lost blogger recently.  Things have been really busy the past couple of weeks with work, mother's day, birthdays, family time, stuff with friends, errands, etc, etc, plus I haven't been feeling that great the past few days.  Anyhow, please excuse my blog for a little while.  I'm going to be updating the look of my blog and playing around with some settings so if it looks a little crazy looking, I apologize ahead of time! I do have a few things I want to share soon that I hope readers will enjoy (more ideas, recipes, etc)! Happy Tuesday!