Week Menu 9/5-11

Meal One: Beef and Cannellini Minestrone with cheesy bread

Meal Two: Chicken Enchiladas

Meal Three: Taco salads

Meal Four: Chicken stew with Biscuits

Recipes

Beef and Cannellini Minestrone

This is from an episode of Giada at home on the food network, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do...

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/beef-and-cannellini-bean-minestrone-recipe/index.html

Taco Salad:

Cook 1 lb taco meat in skillet and season with your favorite taco seasoning. Heat one can of refried or black beans, if you are using black beans you can just mix them into the meat. If you have a taco shell maker, bake your flour tortilla in oven at 300 for about 20 minutes. If you don't have a special pan you can use an oven safe bowl or just crunch chips on top of salad. Layer chopped romaine, diced tomatoes, diced red onion, chopped avocado, then meat, cheese and beans. Then top with sour cream and salsa.

Chicken Enchiladas

2 c shredded chicken

1 c drained black beans

1 can green chilies

1 c sour cream

1 can cream of chicken soup

1/2 c sliced olives

1/2 c cheddar cheese the another cup for sprinkling top of enchiladas

choice of corn or flower tortillas

1-2 c enchilada sauce

mix first 7 ingredients in large bowl. Spoon 1/4 c enchilada sauce into bottom of baking dish. Fill tortillas with mixture and layer in baking dish. If doing two layers, top first layer with sauce and half of remaining cheese. Then top second layer with remaining sauce and cheese.

Bake at 350 for about 20-25 minutes.

Chicken Stew with Biscuits:

This recipe is from the Barefoot Contessa show on the food network. I just buy a rotisserie chicken instead of roasting chicken before, it's much easier, especially when you have more than one chicken meal in the week, I use about half the chicken. Also I rarely remember to have chicken boullion on hand so this turns our just as good without it. Also I just use plain old bisquick drop biscuits for the top, I don't make my own, but feel free.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/chicken-stew-with-biscuits-recipe/index.html

Shopping List

rotisserie chicken (half for enchiladas, half for chicken stew)

ground meat 1 1/2 lb, separated

onions, 3

carrots

celery

lettuce

tomato

olives

parsley

frozen peas

frozen whole small onions

tomato paste

can diced tomatoes

beef broth 2 cans

chicken broth 5 cups

cannellini beans

black beans 2 cans

cream of chicken soup

green chilis

sour cream

cheddar cheese

cream or half and half

tortillas

enchilada sauce