Chicken black bean enchiladas

I got this recipe from my sister in law Rolfe who lives in South Carolina. My family LOVES it when I make this for dinner. For about a year my oldest son who is 19 was a vegetarian I would make this recipe with Spanish rice instead of the chicken it still tasted great!
Enjoy


Chicken black bean enchiladas


1 lb. boned and skinned chicken breast, uncooked
1 2/3 cups black beans, canned, (one 15-ounce can)
1 1/2 cups Monterey Jack cheese, shredded, divided
4 oz green chili peppers, diced
2 tsp. cumin powder
1 tsp. garlic powder
6 or 7 flour tortillas, 10-inches round

Preheat oven to 400°F

To make filling: Cook chicken breasts in a pot of boiling water until done, approximately 20 minutes. When cooled shred chicken. Drain and rinse canned black beans. In a medium bowl, combine chicken, beans, 1 cup cheese, green chilis, cumin and garlic powder.

Spray a 9x12-inch baking pan with vegetable oil spray. Pour one cup enchilada sauce into the baking dish and spread evenly. One at a time, moisten each tortilla by dipping it briefly in the enchilada sauce. Place approximately 1 cup of filling on each tortilla and roll it up. Put in baking dish seam side down. Continue this process until all enchiladas have been assembled. Pour remaining sauce over enchiladas.

Bake in the oven uncovered for 20–25 minutes. Remove and sprinkle over remaining cheese. Return to oven for 5 more minutes.

Serve with salsa and sour cream.

XOXO Lizzie~

2010 Miracles continued....

welcome back.....

       *little explanation as to why my house is the purple house. When my husband and I first lived in this house it was blue. One summer we painted the house a tan color...not priming it at all. Well as the years went by the lovely blue that was the color we painted over slowly bled through the tan and created its own lovely hue of purple.

   After talking with citation man and when I changed my attitude so did our circumstance.

      In passing I had told my brother Jef of our new adventure of painting our house. Never really thinking of it, it was just a conversation of what was new in our life. Well as Faith/Fate would have it Jef would be the answer to our prayers.

  

before picture of outside of house

    As it turned out my brother Jef who is an attorney had  been working on a case for a friend of his that was taking a long time to settle. The friend of his did not have the money to pay Jef until his claim was settled. It just so happen to be that this friend of Jef's is a painter. Jef's friend had offered to do "trade" for Jef in exchange for the money that he would owe him. Jef's house was new to him and his family and did not "need" any  painting done. However, his sister did. So one sunny morning in June Jef called me and said "Liz, I think we have a solution to your problem." He explained that his friend could paint our home in trade for the money that he owed him. Wow!!! what a blessing! my brother was willing to sacrifice his payment in order for my home to be painted. And Jef did not want me to pay him back the money.

     
         With the help of my family we all got busy scraping the house..then priming the house.. then..the wonderful blessing painters came in and painted the house....it is a very Happy Ending...of which I will call a Miracle.

                                                              Beautiful After Picture~

This was a month long project but it could have taken far longer than that.
Now when I drive up to my home it truly does RISE up to meet me (thanks Oprah)!

I am so Grateful to have such an awesome family~ which I also call a Miracle.

xoxox Lizzie

 





 

2010 Miracles~

As 2010 came to an end, I could not help but reflect on the past 12 months. I had so many great hidden miracles in the past 12 months I cannot help but be humbled. I would have to say my biggest miracle was the transformation of our house. You see for a few years I have HATED my home. Every time I would drive up to our home I would just cringe....
Earlier this year I was watching Oprah (love her) and she said a something like "Your house should rise up to meet you." I broke down into tears and kept shaking my head yes..it should.

Let's start from the beginning of the year. January 1st, 2010 we woke up in the morning at 4 am from a knock on the door our neighbor told us "you are not going to like this but there is a ton of water in your front yard". When my husband and I looked out the window we could see water pretty much on our entire lawn.

oh snap... A water main pipe had broke.

Thankfully it was the City's pipe and did not cost us a dime to fix it. What a relief!!!! I was so thankful, because I knew this was a sign that 2010 was going to be a Great year.

Due to the water main break part of our bushes were dug out....

I made the worker men some cinnamon rolls and BEGGED them to please dig out the rest of the bushes. They replied sorry there is not room in the dumpster or else we would. After they left I was wishing I would have just said I will take care of the ones that don't fit in the dumpster, so for 5 months we had a big empty spot in our parking strip of bushes. (not cool)

My house was SURE not rising up to meet me.

Over Memorial Day weekend we were able to dig up the rest of the bushes from the parking strip. About 2 weeks after we had pulled up the bushes our City did a "clean sweep" to our entire neighborhood giving out citations for lots of code violations like for too many weeds, no numbers on your house etc. Well we got a nice little notice stating we needed to put something in our parking strip not just dirt, we needed house numbers on the house and....we needed to paint or put new siding on our house. wow WHAT? Paint our house? it was a shock. I mean I knew that our house needed to be painted sooner than later...but painting a house cost money...money we just really did not have at this time. I was in such shock, mainly because I did not know that a City had a "right" to tell us if our house needed to be painted and if we did not then fines would start adding up.

(our house is ALL wood, in 2009 we had an estimate for vinyl siding...that estimate was $25,000.00, then we got an estimate to paint the house which was $12,000.00 due to all the labor that it was going to take, sanding, priming and then painting...this was why I was in such shock. We had some money that we had saved to do some "home repairs" So we opted for getting the roof done and finishing a bathroom (this will be another post) the outside of our home was again pushed down on our to do list)

When I called the Citation worker to verify if this was really what the citation said. He asked for our address so he could pull up his notes. When he realized what house was mine he asked "oh, is your house the purple house?" I said yes, then he said "mam your house looks awful!"

umm yay I know.

So we had our little conversation that resulted in tears from me. I asked him if we could have a one year extension because at this time we could not really afford to paint our house. He politely said No, we had 30 days but if he saw that we were making progress he would give us another 30 days. As I was talking to him and crying....I had an Aha moment, why am I crying? we have wanted/needed our home to painted for some time this will just make us figure it out sooner than later.

more to come tomorrow.......................................................................................................

xoxo Lizzie~

Hello again...it's me! i have come back to you blog friend. Since March lots has happened, as does most everyone's life in a 9 month span. So i am back for now and hope to stay connected. I also wanted to Wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas~ i am so looking forward to hanging out with family and friends. Much Love Lizzie

Passion~

I loved watching the 2010 Olympics. My favorite event to watch is the figure skating. What i love most about watching the Olympics is how much passions the Olympians have. i just think how awesome for them that they know what they love to do and get to follow their dreams by participating in an event like the Olympics.

My passion bit me about 8 years ago. my Passion is scrapbooking. when i was not scrapbooking i was dreaming, talking and thinking about it. in fact i think my family started avoiding talking to me because their eyes would gloss over and they would do the courtesy nod to my jabbering. in their minds they were screaming i don't care that you have a color of paper that would match my shirt perfectly......

i have gotten better about not talking about it all the time. but i still dream and think about it. for me it has been my way to escape, i just love everything that is a associated with it. the colors, the embellishments, the art of it.

in a couple of weeks i am going attend my form of an "Olympics" it is a scrapbook retreat. we will spend the weekend wearing our "Olympic fashion" called Jammie's while we dish about our lives, eat yummy food, watch 80's movies all while we are "competing" to see who does not fall asleep first. (no one wants the medal of their bra being frozen ) the prize will be the black bags under our eyes. ;)

i would like to take a moment and thank my supplies.... i love you cardstock, scissors, punches, stamps, brads....xoxoxo and a big thank you to the men who make my "training" worth every hour spent cropping... my very handsome husband and 3 handsome boys.

Passion....pass it on~

xoxo Lizzy

my first post

My first Blog post~ i have been wanting to start a blog for some time and i have finally gotten up the nerve to do so. please bear with me while i wander blindly through this new adventure.

the main reason it took me so long to start a blog is because i was not sure what i would name my blog. after pondering i came up with Miss Lizzie's Heart. Miss Liz was a nickname from my mom and my blog post name is Lizzie G so i thought i would combine them to Miss Lizzie. then i thought about what am i going to post/blog about....and i figured it would be all things close to my heart!

too new adventures ~
xoxox
Lizzie