Maddie's Mexican Lasagna

Mexican always hits the spot! I'm so glad I stumbled upon this recipe. It's my second time making it and you can add and take out ingredients to cater to your taste buds. This recipe will definitely become a regular in your household!

Ingredients:

12 corn tortillas

1 large jar of salsa

1 can refried beans

1/4 C water

1 1/2 C shredded cheddar cheese

1 lb. ground beef or turkey

1 packet or 2 large Tbs Taco seasoning

Optional:

Green pepper and onion 

Garnish:

Olives

Cilantro

Lettuce

Avocado

Sour cream

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Brown your meat in a large pan and add in your taco seasoning. Take out meat and set aside. If you are adding onion and bell pepper thinly slice those and saute in the same pan with 1 tsp of taco seasoning and 1 Tbs olive oil. 

2. Pour a thin layer of salsa in a 9x13 baking dish. Layer 4-6 corn tortillas on the bottom.

3. Warm up the refried beans in a small bowl and add 1/4 cup of water to thin out the beans. Spread the refried beans over the tortillas.

4. Pour meat evenly over the refried beans.

5. Add your peppers and onions, I also added some more salsa at this point but that wasn't necessary. Sprinkle a generous layer of cheese. Now add another layer of corn tortillas. 

6. Pour salsa over the tortillas and make sure most of the tortillas are covered. Sprinkle cheese on top. Bake for 30-40 minutes until hot and bubbly.

Sprinkle with olives. Wait a few minutes to cool then cut and serve! 

Serve with lettuce, salsa, sour cream, cilantro and avocado to really knock this dish out of the park!

Very delicious and very gluten friendly!

Curry Roasted Cauliflower

This is one of my husband's favorite vegetable dishes that I make. It is so scrumptious and even veggie haters would love it!

Ingredients:

1 head of cauliflower

2 TBS Olive Oil (more or less, enough to coat all of the florets)

1 1/2 Tbs Curry Powder

Salt and Pepper

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven 375 degrees.
2. Cut and tear florets from cauliflower head. Toss in a bowl and drizzle olive oil over the cauliflower. 
3. Sprinkle curry powder, toss and stir. Sprinkle more curry powder, toss until all is evenly coated.
4. Spread cauliflower out on a pan. Add salt and pepper to cauliflower.
5. Roast in the oven for 25 minutes or until they are slightly tender when you stick a fork in.

We had the cauliflower with Lloyd's BBQ sandwiches (I had mine open face on some GF bread) and sweet potato fries. Wanna make those sweet potato fries???

Sweet Potato Fries with Guru's dipping Sauce

2 large sweet potatoes

2 TBS cornstarch

2 TBS olive oil

1 tsp cajun seasoning

salt  

Sauce:

1/3 C Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce (or any GF sauce)

1 TBS mayonnaise

1 TBS sour cream

1 tsp cajun seasoning

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cut sweet potatoes in french fry strips. Soak in ice water for a few minutes. Dry VERY well with a dish towel.
3. Throw fries into a ziploc bag or bowl and toss in cornstarch 1 TBS at a time with 1 Tbs olive oil, toss to coat evenly. (you might need to do this in two separate batches)
4. Sprinkle in salt, mix evenly.
5. Spread on a lightly greased pan. Do NOT crowd the fries. If the fries are too close together they will not get crispy because of the steam they give off. (If you're making a lot use two baking pans)
6. Sprinkle cajun seasoning. 
7. Bake 20 minutes. Turn fries over and bake another 15ish minutes.
8. Make sauce while fries are baking and let it sit in the fridge.