I'm pretty much in a COVID rut at this point. I've worked through most of the weird leftovers in the freezer, tried the interesting recipes in the cookbooks I got before the library closed down, and never know what the grocery store will be sold out of so I don't want to plan on anything that requires an unusual ingredient. Once the garden gets cranking, I'll have gluts that will require creativity, but until then, it's been eggs, pasta, burgers, stir fries, and soup, interspersed with an increase in take out from our favorite struggling local places.
Here you go...no fancy smancy ingrediants.
This is one of Ddbob's earliest memories of food.
Here is the backstory......
DdBob is born on sep.23 1970 in Pheoinix , AZ but his parents lived in a small little town about 40 miles from the Mexico border called
AJO, AZ
Since DdBob's mother and father both taught school ...dad at the high school and mom at the elementary they were gone during the daytime, well DdBob's mom took two years off to stay at home. an interesting side note is that DdBob's parents both walked to work because they lived that close to the schools...
Anyway there was a nice old couple who were fellow church goers of the DdBob's and they were OLD they were the Gore's and they had roots in the area goung back to the turn of the century. The old woman used to babysit DdBob and his older brother. We knew her as Grandma Gore. Another interesting fact is that one of DdBob's most vivid early memories is one day while staying at Grandma Gores house he remembers seeing Happy Day's and Mash commercials come on the television, he thought there were little people inside the television....DdBob did not understand the concept of how the television worked at this time
He also remembers Grandma Gore watching the series "Dark Shadows" and that scared tyhe shit out of him.
So anyway Grandma Gore's casserole is what is hand written in my cookbook which my mom made for me when i moved out on my own.
Ddbob's family ate this a lot when DdBob was ayoungster dring the 70's and early 80's
1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
2 medium onions diced
1 can stewed or diced tomatoes
1 can cream of shrooms
1 can cream of chickens
2 cans diced green chiles
1/2 to 1 lb of longhorn/jack or mexican blend cheese
1 dozen corn tortillas
salt
pepper
cumin powder
fry corn tortillas in oil, dry on paper towels then cut into about 1 inch wide strips
brown the meat and onions in seasonings
add the tomatoes chiles and soup (you can even use just one can of either soup...works fine)
in a casserole dish add meat mixture then strips of tortillas and then cheese and repeat
*edit* bake uncovered about 40 minutes at about 350
yer basically making a enchilad lasagna
If you wanna get fancy with your 'plating" top with sour cream and green chile salsa
it's good cheap quick and easy soul food...
hope this helps!
