Shish Kabob to the Rescue!

I have been really busy lately it feels like so I was trying to think of easy recipes that I could try and remembered Shish Kabobs! Food served on a stick... what is better then that, and its such an easy, tasty way to incorporate some veggies! :) 

To make my life even easier I found some frozen beef for stew that I had in the freezer (guess what! its already cut into bite size pieces! no cutting up meat for me!) I marinated the beef in Worcestershire sauce (I just did an even covering on all of the meat) and then sprinkled garlic powder, onion powder, and some red pepper on it evenly. I let the meat sit covered and refrigerated for the day while I was at work. 

One thing I did not get a picture of was the Kabob sticks soaking in water. You need to soak them in water for at least 30 minutes. This keeps them from catching on fire while they are on the grill (genius right! I never would of thought of that... good thing the bag I bought told me to do it!)

The next step is chopping! Just roughly chop up onions, peppers, mushrooms, and any other veggies you would want to go on your kabob. Be careful not to cut them too small, the mushrooms we bought were to small and they would just split in half when I tried to slide them on the stick. (so only a couple got mushrooms) 

Next! slide all the goodies onto the kabob sticks (that have been soaking in water). We made a bunch with just rotating all of the items, but also make a couple all veggie ones and all meat ones. :) 

Finally heat up your grill on medium, I stuck my kabobs on when the grill was around 450 and they turned out great! Grill them for 5 mins and then flip them (CAUTION! the sticks won't catch fire but they will get HOT! so be really careful and tongs work best). 

Stick them on a plate and ENJOY!!! 

(P.S. the onion is my favorite on them, so put lots of onion:) Trust me!)

Easy Beef Taquitos!

This post is to continue my taquitos post so here are the beef ones :) 

1 LB. Ground beef

6" Tortillas

1 Green bell pepper

1 Fresh Jalapeno

1 Onion

1 Packet of Taco Seasoning

1. Brown Hamburger Meat 
2. Add Seasoning
3. Dice jalapeno and bell pepper
4. Finely chop onion (or stick it in the food processor)
5. add all of the veggies to the meat and let simmer 10 minutes or until they start to get soft
6. Warm tortillas in a damp paper towel or tortilla warmer in the microwave for one minute (this makes it easier to roll them without the tortilla cracking)
7. Scoop 1-1 1/2 tbs of mixture onto tortilla and add a pinch of shredded cheese
8. wrap tightly
9. Line Cookie sheet with tinfoil and spray lightly with cooking spray (pam)
10. Line wrapped tortillas on cookie sheet
11. Preheat oven to 400
12. Stick taquitos in oven for 16 mins flipping half way

Enjoy them! I know we did! 

Jalapeno Cream Cheese Taquitos

So the Boyfriend and I happen to LOVE the cream cheese and jalapeno taquitos that they sell at 7-11. We enjoy them enough to try and make them ourselves. J We planned on eating them for dinner one night so we also planned on regular beef taquitos; both have similar steps so I will do one tutorial with both of them.

To start off you need:

Cream Cheese ones:

2-3 blocks Cream cheese (we used Kroger brand but any cream cheese will work and the whipped might save you some time)

1 can of diced jalapenos

2 fresh jalapenos

6” tortillas

1.      Cut fresh Jalapenos

2.      Put all (fresh and canned)  jalapenos into food processor

3.      Process until “real” little but not super mushy

4.      Cut blocks of cream cheese into food processor.

5.      Process it until the cream cheese is easy to mix and work with. (You could also microwave it for like 30-45 seconds but watch it closely because you don’t want it runny)

6.      Mix all of the cream cheese with all of the chopped up jalapenos until even. (you don’t want all of the jalapenos in one bite J)

7.      Stick 6  tortillas in damp paper towels or a tortilla warmer for one minute

8.      Spoon 1 tbs of cream cheese mixture in the tortilla

9.      Wrap tortilla tightly

10.  Preheat oven to 400

11.  Line a cookie sheet with tin foil and spray lightly with pam or any other cooking spray

12.  Line up the rolled tortillas on cookie sheet and lightly spray the tops of them