Welcome to the Collins: Beef and beans.

My husband is a picky eater. Not to any extreme extent, but finding meals that we both love AND are healthy AND easy-ish... is kinda difficult. Thank goodness for pinterest! I probably spend wayyy too much time looking at food on there though.

Behold! The beef and bean enchilada casserole!

Husband rates this a ten. That's unheard of, p.s.

So naturally, I must share to all the other wives of picky eaters.

Ingredients:

3 oz. ground beef

¼ cup dried onion

¾ tsp chili powder (I used chili peppers… the little round flakes?)

¾ tsp cumin

one 15 oz can pinto beans (drained)

one 4 oz can diced green chili peppers (I only put in half because we are spicy weaklings)

¾ cup sour cream

1 ½ Tbs. flour

¼ tsp. garlic powder (I just used normal garlic)

three 6 in corn tortillas (I used two 12in flour ones)

one 10 oz can enchilada sauce (we used the mild – original kind... and only about 3/4 the can)

½ cup shredded cheese (i used a little more than that on his)

1. Spray 9x13 pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In skillet cook onion and beef, drain fat. Stir in chili powder and cumin. Stir in pinto beans, enchilada sauce, green chilies and half of the cheese. Set aside.

2. In small bowl stir together sour cream, flour and garlic powder.

3. Spread sour cream mixture onto tortillas. Top with meat mixture and cheese. Roll tortillas and place in pan. Top with enchilada sauce, remaining meat mixture, and sour cream.

I have a thing with adding vegetables to all recipes. So before I put it in the oven for the last five minutes, I cut up and added a tomato, half an avocado, half a green pepper, and a couple green onions and put them on the top. I Think it really made a difference!

4.Bake 30 minutes. Uncover and sprinkle with cheese (and vegetables if you so desire). Bake 5 more minutes.

Disclaimer: All measurements, amounts etc are just approximations. Most the time I don't even measure it. That's the beauty of this recipe, you can make it just how you like it and it still turns out. I've used taco seasoning on the meat instead of the spices, added green onions, black beans instead of pinto, used wheat tortillas, made my enchilada vegetarian, you could use cooked chicken instead of beef... the list goes on and on.

In other news, we have taken a liking to staying on the phone/face-timing for hours whilst I'm dead bored at work, and he is home without me. You know that office episode where Pam is in NY and she and Jim get the microscopic bluetooths and stay on the phone all day long and Dwight thinks Jim is going crazy because he keeps talking to himself, but he is really just talking to Pam? Yeah same thing. People think I'm just listening to music on my ipod, when I'm really listening to Steven singing on the other end. Awesome.