CRAZY!There are 87 cans on my island counter top. 87. This is not including the 18 we threw away because they were past their expiration date.
In my last post, I stated that I have some sort of neurosis about buying food, storing food, starving.
Drama Queen stayed home all weekend-I know, major milestone. She came into the kitchen as I was pulling cans out of the cupboard by our patio door. Dude had put the cupboard up to help tame my appliance addiction. Food soon invaded it and counter top appliances migrated to the basement closet.
I told her there was no organization of our canned goods. There were cans of green beans in the cupboard by the stove and also in the pantry. There were cans of tomato paste in the cupboard by the stove and by the patio door. This would not do any longer. She rolled up her sleeves, took all the cans down, washed off all the shelves, and had me hand them back in the order I wanted. They are now all grouped together by
Soup
Vegetables
Fruit
Tomatoes (since we had so many)
I have 14 cans of Cream of XXXX soup. I can make many hotdishes now. When DQ spotted the Cream of Chicken soup and the enchilada sauce, she set them aside and asked me to make enchiladas. I thought I had posted them here, but cannot find them in my archives. Hmmmm.
These are about as easy as you can get. It isn't even a recipe, really.
I had three cooked chicken breasts I had made yesterday afternoon. I chopped those up, poured in one can of Cream of Chicken soup, 1/2 can of water, and warmed up in a sauce pan. I took 6 tortillas out, warmed them up in the microwave. I brushed enchilada sauce on the bottom of the 8x8 dish, brushed the warmed tortillas with the sauce, spooned about 2 tablespoons of chicken mixture on the tortillas, rolled them up and put in the pan. Brushed more enchilada sauce
on each bundle, topped with a cup of
cheese, and bake at 350 for 25 minutes.
Oh yummy. Hot, cheesy, filling.
Made this icy, windy day a little more tolerable.
Note to self-no more canned goods for 3 months...
