Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

Most recipes are easily converted to a Dutch Oven, once you know certain elements. A 12" Dutch oven is comparable to a 9"x13" pan. Knowing that makes it easy to switch casseroles to a Dutch oven. This is one recipe that can be cooked in a 9"x13" casserole in the oven at 350 degrees. It can also be cooked in a cast iron skillet on the stove top since the cheese on tops just needs to be melted.  This is a mild dish full of flavor, but you can add more spices and heat if desired.







Easy Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

3 tbsp butter
3 tbsp all purpose flour
2 cups chicken broth
1 package of favorite taco seasoning

salt to taste
1 (4oz) can chopped green chilies
 2 cups cooked shredded chicken breasts
1 C sour cream
12 corn tortillas, cut into bite-sized pieces
2 cups grated cheese,

1. In a 12" Dutch Oven, melt butter. Stir in flour, cook for 1 minute and whisk in chicken broth.  Stir until smooth and thickened.
2. Stir taco seasoning, salt, green chilies and chicken into the sauce. Bring to a simmer, and cook a until chicken is is warmed.
3. Stir sour cream into the sauce and add the tortillas pieces, and 1 cup of cheese. Stir until combined and top with remaining cheese. Cover pan and cook for 5-8 minutes until bubbly and the cheese is melted.

This recipes cooks best with more heat on the bottom, I use 12-14 briquets on the bottom and 10 on top. 

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake with Caramel

 It has been a long while since I have posted, so I have lots of new recipes and a couple of patterns I will be adding in the next few days. I served this one and it was gone before I could take a pretty picture of a single serving with ice cream on top. Watch it closely or it will be dried out if you bake to long. This recipe also works well in a 12" Dutch Oven, for a thinner more bar like cake.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake with Caramel

1 Can Pumpkin

1 White or Yellow Cake Mix

2 Eggs

1 Cup Chocolate Chips

1  12 oz bottle Caramel Ice cream topping

Liberally grease 10" Dutch Oven.

Mix first three ingredients. Pour into Dutch oven. Sprinkle evenly

with Chocolate chips.

Bake at approximately  350°  for 20 minutes, rotating Dutch oven and lid heat at about the half way point.

Carefully remove lids and gently pour all of sauce on top of cake. Replace lid and bake for 10-15 more minutes until done.

If you are not camping out in the middle of nowhere, this is excellent served with whip cream or ice cream!

Sloppy Jakes (a Dutch Oven Variation of Sloppy Joes)

I am Back! After almost two weeks without a computer I am so happy to be back on line and I have a few new recipes to share in the next few days!
A few years ago we canceled our cable TV. We don't miss it. My husband and I are both avid readers and if we want to watch something we will just pop in a movie. We are also big movie fans, so we enjoy watching movies without the commercials. Being without the computer is another story. I was unable to look up recipes and patterns and Hubby was unable to do genealogy, which is his hobby.  When we finally gave up on having the old one fixed and bought a new computer it took several days to get everything set back up the way we like it. It sure is nice to have it back...
The recipe I am going to share with you today is for my version of Sloppy Joes. Now, I love Sloppy Joes, but I hate commercial buns, they get soggy and then fall apart. So this is how I like to make them. I make them with biscuits...almost like dumplings or an easy pot pie. I call them Sloppy Jakes after my son Jacob, not because he is sloppy, but, because he LOVES biscuits.
Any kind of biscuits can do, you can even use canned biscuits if you are in a pinch. Biscuits are so easy to make, why would anyone want to use canned?

Cheese & Onion Baking Powder Biscuits

2 c. flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. shortening

1 cup grated Cheddar Cheese

2 Tbls. finely chopped onion

1 Tbls chopped parsley

3/4 c. milk
 

Sift flour, salt, and baking powder into bowl. Add shortening and cut into flour with fork or pastry cutter. Stir in cheese, onion and parsley. Pour in milk and stir lightly until dough holds together. Turn dough out on lightly floured board. Pat dough out until 1/2 inch thick and cut with biscuit cutter or cup rim. Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes. This recipe makes about 10  2 1/2 inch biscuits.

 

Sloppy Jakes

3 lbs. ground beef
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped bell pepper
2  15 oz. cans of Sloppy Joe sauce
1 cup water
Cheese and Onion Biscuit dough

               In a 12" Dutch Oven, brown the ground beef with the onions and peppers. Drain off the fat. Mix the ground beef mixture, Sloppy Joe sauce and water together. Heat till bubbly. While meat mixture is heating, roll dough to about 1/2 inch thick and cut with any size biscuit cutter. when mixture is bubbly drop cut biscuits on top.  Cook in the Dutch oven for 20-30 minutes with 8 coals on bottom and 14-16 on top. Rotate lid about every10 minutes to brown evenly.

This is a super easy meal for camping. Any biscuit recipe will do, but I like Baking Powder Biscuits best.