This week's delicious recipe is brought to you by my cousin Tricia's husband, Ben. He created these tasty burgers for her site, Once a Month Mom.
The winner is Carolyn! Who, conveniently, works down the hall from me. Unfortunately, I still have to order this from Amazon, so it will take her just as long to get it as it would anyone else.
Congrats, Carolyn! And everyone else PLEASE come back for Family Recipe Friday next week! What do you want to see the recipe for: chicken parmesan, cabbage rolls, potato soup, broccoli salad, or layered salad?
I remember spending nearly a whole day at their house, going through my MIL's own stash of recipes and copying down the ones Mr. V insisted were keepers. I did the same at my home with the collection of church cookbooks and recipe cards my mom kept stashed in a cupboard above the microwave.
I thought it would be fun--now that I think I am at a place in my bloggy "career" where people might participate--to start a carnival where people share their family recipes. These are usually the BEST recipes because they are tried and true, perfected over time.
Here's my first great recipe.
Mom's Enchiladas--Cheap and delicious Mexican fare!
Serves 6-81 lb. ground beef or shredded chicken
1/2 cup diced onion
8 6" flour tortillas
8 oz. taco sauce or salsa
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
4 T butter
4 T flour
2 tsp. chicken bouillion
1 1/3 cup water
4 T. diced green chiles
2/3 cup sour cream
Cook beef and onion until meat is brown and onion is tender. Drain fat. Divide meat into tortillas. Top meat in each tortilla with 1 oz. of taco sauce/salsa and 1 tablespoon cheese. Roll the tortillas up and place them seam down in an oblong baking dish.
In saucepan, melt butter, then whisk in flour and bouillion. Stir in water. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly, then stir in chiles. Remove from heat; stir in sour cream. Pour the sauce over the tortillas.
Cook at 350 for 15 minutes. Sprinkle with remaining cheese and bake until melted, another 5 minutes or so.
In case you're not familiar with carnivals, here's what you do! Write a post on your blog about one of your family's "hand-me-down" recipes. Link here to THAT POST, not to your main blog page (if you need help doing that, you can e-mail me). If you don't have a blog, leave the recipe in the comments. Then we all visit each other's blogs and see the wonderful, delicious recipes that we can make over the weekend.
WIN IT! [CONTEST OVER!] Everyone who links their post here or leaves a recipe in the comments will be eligible to win this Cath Kidston Recipe Organizer so you can have a place to write all your treasured recipes. If you Twitter about this carnival, you'll get another entry (just leave a comment that you did). Same for Stumbling/Kirtsy-ing/Digg-ing this post. US and Canada only, please. (Please still link if you're international, you just won't be eligible to win.) I'll pick a winner on Saturday.
Bon Appetit!
[since Mr. Linky went down after this post, I'm inserting the links myself.]
Mom's Pasta Salad (Lattes and Life)
Cornbread Salad (The MawMaw)
Broccoli Casserole (It's Come to This)
Chicken Lime Soup (Shannon)
Rainbow Slaw (The MawMaw)
Chicken Parmigiana (Once a Month Mom Tricia)
Randy Frazee … quotes therapist Will Miller as saying, "If you talk to any therapist today, the problems we see mostly are mood disorders: depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social detachment. As blessed as we are as Americans, as prosperous as we are, there's all this depression. So where is it coming from? I'm convinced it's rooted in the loss of 'refrigerator rights' relationships … A person with refrigerator rights is someone who can come into your home and feel comfortable going to your refrigerator to make a sandwich without your permission."
"Pruning is not just the removal of sin. It targets our own religious activity that developed in the very act of bearing fruit. It is this that must be cut down and cleansed away. In working for God, we have to use our natural gifts of wisdom, or eloquence, or influence, or zeal. And yet they are always in danger of being unduly developed and then trusted in.--Andrew Murray, The True Vine
"And so, after each season of work, God has to bring us to the end of ourselves, to the consciousness of the helplessness and the danger of all that is of man, to feel that we are nothing. All that is to be left of us is just enough to receive the power of the life-giving sap of the Holy Spirit. What is of man must be reduced to its very lowest nature. All that is inconsistent with the most entire devotion to Christ's service must be removed.
"The more perfect the cutting away of all that is of self, the less surface over which the Holy Spirit is to be spread. This allows a more intense concentration of our whole being to be entirely at the disposal of the Spirit. This is the true circumcision of the heart, the circumcision of Christ. This is the true crucifixion with Christ, bearing the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body."
My birthday is coming up! It's May 26, and I struggle to say I will be 27. I know that's not that old ... but for some reason is sounds much closer to 30 than 26 does! I've pulled out several gray hairs recently. I'm just starting to feel like a grown-up, I guess. Hah. Which I should, since I've been married nearly 5 years and have a child now!
