Cooking Machine

It has been a very lazy weekend for us at the Holleran house and its just what we needed. Finally this afternoon I was getting a bit stir crazy so I started cooking. I ended up with two delicious meals, chicken and veggie enchiladas for dinner tonight and broccoli salad for my lunches with week. I love cooking big meals on Mondays because  then I will have leftovers for the whole week and I don't have to cook after work, which is awesome! Here are the recipes, yum!

Meal #1 Chicken and Veggie Enchilada Cassarole

2 large shredded chicken breasts
1/2 white onion
1 can black beans
2 cups salsa
1/2 bell pepper
1 small can of green chilis
1 jar of enchilada sauce or green chili (I used green Chili)
corn tortillas
cheddar cheese

1)  Preheat oven to 350
2) shred chicken breasts (I cooked mine in the crock pot all day with salsa, water and taco seasoning so it was very easy to shred)
3) combine chicken, beans, green chiles onion, bell pepper and 1 cup of salsa, and season to taste (used salt, pepper, chili powder, garlic powder and cumin)
4) Layer tortialls, chicken mixture, 1/3 green chili and cheese, then again tortillas, chicken mixture 1/3 of green chili and cheese then final layer should be tortialls the rest of the green chili and followed by cheese
5) bake for 40 minutes covered, then 20 minutes uncovered

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Meal #2 Broccoli Salad

2 large heads of broccoli rinsed, cut into bite size pieces

1/2 red onion, chopped

1/2 cup sunflower seeds

6 strips of bacon, crumbled

1 cup mayo

1/2 cup sugar

2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar

1/3 cup of raisins

1) combine, broccoli, onion, bacon, sunflower seeds and rasins

2) mix dressing: combine sugar vinegar and mayo, mix until smooth

3) pour dressing over broccoli mix and stir

4) refrigerate a few hours before serving.