Score: Sauce 1, Me 0

Dinner disaster occurred tonight.  Enchilada sauce put up a good fight, but unfortunately I lost…..

Since I was in the midst of cooking dinner and making a dessert……tons of things were out on the counter and got covered in enchilada sauce…as did my khakis capris

Boooo!

Lunch:

Lunch was totally easy to throw together this morning, thanks to leftovers from last night’s dinner

Veggie couscous and Garden protein [no meat] bbq skewers

I also sliced up an apple

Snack

For my afternoon snack, I decided to give the Carman’s bars I was sent to review another go.

In my first review of this bar, I thought the flavor was bland, but I did like the chewiness of it.  After today, I’m still just not impressed. 

After seeing a few more patients and while doing some documentation, I munched on some nuts from my snack stash in my desk

Dinner

Welp, you’ve already seen the mess I created while cooking dinner.    Dinner was created from a recipe that came out of a very cool cookbook I have

This cookbook was a present from my roommate Lauren [that I lived with before I got married].  It’s full of recipes that she and her husband love to cook!  What a great present! 

The recipe I followed is called Enchilada Shells.  I changed it slightly, including the type of shell used, so I renamed it…. 

Enchilada Roll-ups

Directions:  Preheat oven to 350F.  Cook pasta according to directions.  Saute onions over medium heat, when translucent, remove from heat for later.  Cook ground turkey meat over medium heat.  Stir in 3/4 of the can of enchilada sauce, onions and seasoning when meat is brown.

Set meat mixture aside.  Lay cooked shells out flat on wax paper.  Spread a rounded spoon of refried beans on each shell

Add turkey mixture to shells, next

Roll shells up tightly and add to a baking sheet sprayed with non-stick spray

I ended up adding more refried beans to the top since I didn’t have the remainder enchilada sauce to add on top.  Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 20 minutes, then top with cheddar cheese and bake for an additional 5 minutes.

I enjoyed 2 roll-ups for my dinner.  They were pretty tasty, except they definitely needed some more enchilada sauce!    Also, if I make these again, I think I would veggie them up a bit.

Dessert

Looks pretty good, but didn’t taste quite right. 

Don’t get me wrong, I still ate every last bite, but let me perfect this recipe before posting it

Question of the Night:  What’s the best present you’ve ever received???