Leftovers

Last night I felt compelled to make the dinner I wasn't able to make last Sunday because we ate pasta instead.  These burritos are the easiest thing to make.  They are fresh, healthy and very tasty. 

Ingredients:
flour or wheat tortillas
large can sliced olives
large can diced green chilies
shredded cheddar
1 can pinto beans
bag of coleslaw mix w/out the dressing
red salsa

In a large bowl mix the olives, green chilies and beans together.  Add the cheddar.  This is your binder.  You actually don't need too much, I don't tend to put a large amount in the mix.  Add about 1/4 to 1/2 the bag of coleslaw mix.  Stir everything together finishing with your choice of red salsa - just enough to cover and dress all the other ingredients.  Don't put too much or during the cooking process it will ooze out of the tortilla and make everything wet.

Wrap ingredients in your tortillas.  Line up in a large pyrex baking dish.  Bake at 350 degrees until the top is slightly brown and crispy to the touch.

One great thing you can do is add shredded, cooked chicken.  This tastes fantastic in the mix.

Got this receipe from either my mom's Sunset or Better Homes and Gardens magazine many years ago.  Tends to be a huge hit every time I make it.

Sugar

This is what I found on msn.com today:

If you can't already tell, it's an iPhone cake.  Guess I'm not all that surprised, but admittedly impressed by the detail and precision.  Somebody was bound to make one of these eventually. 

Sunday Dinner

This week for Sunday dinner my friends made an easy and delicious pasta dish:

Ingedients:
pasta of your choice
asparagus
salt
gorgonzola cheese

Cut up asparagus into bite size pieces and put in a large pot.  Add enough water to cook the pasta and sprinkle a bit of salt into the water.  Boil water and add pasta.  Cook until pasta is al dente, stirring occasionally to keep pasta from sticking to the pot.

Drain pasta and asparagus, put back into the pot.  Add gorgonzola cheese - just enough to melt and cover all the pasta and asparagus.  Adjust salt as needed (cheese tends to be a little salty, so may not need to add more).  Add pepper if desired.

What I love about this dish is the endless possibilities.  Talking to my friend, and roommate Ken, we started rattling off the different ways we could alter this recipe.  Sauted onions or finely cut basil mixed in at the end.  Arugula, shredded chicken or maybe even ground turkey.  Just as long as the flavors aren't too strong, you could add just about anything.  Skies are almost the limit.