soulfulspoonful: Sunday Supper--Enchiladas--beans---brown paper bag apple pie

Although the first day of spring has already came and went someone did not tell mother nature, because we just got hit with another snow storm, which makes three in the last month. On the behalf of our confusing weather forecast I decided to give a wink and a nudge to the last of the winter weather hopefully and make one more winter recipe. On the menu today is my out of this world enchiladas, along with some pinto beans that's been brewing on my stove for about 4 hours. To accompany the dinner is an old fashion brown paper bag apple pie, soon to be one of my families favorites. Served right along side of this amazing pie is, homemade vanilla bean ice cream and homemade caramel...Sit back and enjoy some of my favorite recipes that could be some of yours with the turn of a knob on the stove.

Prep time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Level of difficulty Easy Breezy Servings: 6

Enchiladas

What you will need:

1 pound of ground turkey, or beef, or chicken if your opposed to turkey

1/2 red onion diced

Large bag of shredded cheese

1 package of 24 corn tortillas, or flour tortillas

2 9x13 pans sprayed with canola oil

2 Tablespoons of cumin

2 Tablespoons of chili powder

2 tablespoons of garlic powder

salt and pepper to taste

Sauté your meat with your spices until browned.

Place your cooked meat into a heated corn tortilla along with some chopped red onion, and cheese, then roll up.

Pour your favorite enchilada sauce over the top of your rolled up enchiladas, also put any meat that was left over on top of your enchiladas, then put a generous amount of cheeses all over your the top and baked covered with foil @ 375 for 25 to 30 minutes. * For the enchilada sauce I used Green Verde sauce instead of the traditional red sauce. These enchiladas are simple but have a powerful punch of flavor. I served mine along side of pinto beans, and homemade salsa, jalapenos, slivered green onion, extra cheese for the beans, and avocado dip! Delicious, they are always a big hit in our house.

Prep time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 1 hour Level of difficulty: Easy Breezy Servings 8

Brown paper bag apple pie

What you will need:

Pie plate

cookie sheet

1 Tablespoon of lemon juice

1 large brown paper bag

8 tart apples ( Green apples are great)

1/2 cup white sugar

3 Tablespoons flour

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. vanilla you can use powder, or paste which ever you prefer

your favorite recipe for a pie crust., or a store bought one

1/2 brown sugar

1/2 cup flour

1/3 cup of butter (5 1/3 Tablespoons butter)

This is the finish product....Now let's get started....

Cut and Core your apples into slices like this...

Put your cut apples into a large bowl. Add your nutmeg, cinnamon, 3 tablespoons of flour, brown sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla. Place your seasoned apples into your pie crust.

Let's make the crumble topping...Mix together your 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup flour 1/3 cup of cold butter. Cut into with a pastry cutter or two forks until you have a mixture that looks like crumbles the size of peas. Like below...:)

Put the crumble on top of your apples...

Now here comes the fun part...Get your large brown paper bag place it onto a cookie sheet slip your pie inside.

Fold once then staple together with three staples. Like so :)

Bake @ 400 for 1 hour...*** You will smell the paper bag. BUT it will not burn and the pie will not taste like the bag. IT WILL BE THE BEST APPLE PIE YOU'VE EVER ATE!!!!! please try this recipe and see if your taste buds don't scream....I served mine with homemade vanilla bean ice cream and caramel sauce...Picture at the bottom of this page...

Easy Salted Carmel Sauce:

What you will need:

1 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 cup water

1 cup heavy cream

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 tsp. sea salt

Medium sauce pan

Simmer sugar and water in a saucepan over medium high heat swirling the pan do not stir, until dark amber, about 12 minutes. Off the heat, whisk in 1 cup of cream, vanilla, and sea salt. Let cool, serve over ice cream , with apples, or bananas.