Tonights Supper

After being up at the Estate for much of this week, I needed some groceries, Ole Mother Hubbard's Cupboards were almost bare. So we collected ourselves and the boys and I headed out the door to get a few items.  Thus starts that never ending question of "whats for dinner" once you cook and clean up from one meal, you have to start planning for another- it does make one exhausted.

Tonight's meal had to do with Senior eating burritos for lunch, the boys were intrigued by them, but can defiantly do with out the re fried beans. Meat and Cheese Enchiladas was requested. And NW who usually requests a taco on enchilada night, actually said he would try them, as long  as there were no re fried beans involved, WHAT SO EVER with an Exclamation mark!

Instead of buying a dinner kit, I bought a can of the sauce because I assumed I had some store bought tortillas in the freezer..as you can guess when I got home, I did not. So, I jumped online and searched for a recipe.. most I found called for lard. I did not have lard, then I found this simple and delicious recipe at Cafe Sucre Farine:

Best Home Made Tortillas

 I do not have a mixer, so I used the "dough function" on my bread machine to mix it. Once it was into a ball in the machine, I stopped the function and divided the dough into 16 parts.
 I learned after the first two, to roll them out paper thin:

Cook them in a hot pan, but watch them closely as they can burn easily

 

 

Added a meat and cheese filler and poured enchilada sauce over them, then added some shredded cheese on top, baked for another 10 minutes...

Topped them with sour cream and served.

 

The end result was empty plates around the table. NW even invented something he called a "Tostito-Lada"  he put small spoon size bites into his tostito scoops...
And of course once you make the tortillas, you can bag them and freeze them...they store indefinitely in the freezer.

-JUGM