I'm back for Tyler Florence Fridays with Chicken Enchiladas

If you've been hanging around here the last couple weeks, you might have noticed things have been a little out of my usual routine. Okay, a lot. My youngest went to school this year and for the first time in over 11 years I am home alone all day. It is SO weird and I find it unsettling most of the time. Thankfully, Jonathan is handling the change like a pro. I, on the other hand- not so much.

Between the summer & back to school I have not been entering my favorite round ups to often lately. We have been eating, but nothing elaborate. So, last night, when I had not figured out how to cook my chicken yet, I figured I would google for a TF recipe. I found a chicken enchilada recipe that I thought sounded easy enough. (Don't try to google it now because it seems to have disappeared over night!)

WELL- apparently in my funk, I have also FORGOTTEN HOW TO COOK!!! OMG it was a DISASTER!!! Quick, call Food 911 I need HELP!!! Sorry for yelling, but I'm not kidding you, what a mess- look, it was so bad I even took pictures!

Yes, that is a bottle of wine I had to break out in the middle- I needed all the help I could get!

Cookbooks out on the floor. Because I also seem to have forgotten how to READ and didn't realize I needed enchilada sauce until it was time to use it and I had none!!

We did get a dinner out of it (and enough leftovers to feed an army) I made this much, that got only about 1/2 eaten- too spicy for the kids & hubby already ate. And had 3 times this much filing that I didn't even bother to use. It's in the freezer now. Yikes!!

Since the recipe seems to have disappeared and I don't think I can remember enough of it to write out here; you, my friends, are going to have to find your own recipe for chicken enchilada's.

I do know what I thought of the recipe. Too hot for my (and the kids) liking. I had just about 3lbs of chicken so I doubled the recipe. This used most of a 7 oz can of chipolte peppers and 2 cans (4 peppers each) of the mild green chili's. And the recipe was only a red sauce, I had in my head that enchiladas were supposed to have a creamy sauce (again, if I had actually read the whole recipe I would have known this ahead of time- duh!!) So what I did was put in a can of cream of celery soup (I had no chicken) and entire package of cream cheese (no sour cream). And I really liked the flavor of it after that.

As I said, I had no enchilada sauce, so Emeril came to the rescue with an enchilada sauce recipe. Thankfully, this recipe didn't disappear and can be found here.

End results- I will enter this into Tyler Florence Friday's round up which I am so excited to be back for. Don't think I'll be winning a guest spot on his blog with this one though!

I have learned that new recipe + school night + frazzled brain + 6th grade Spanish homework = nightmare! DO NOT try this at home! I think I'll be sticking to the simple weeknight meals and save by buddy TF for the weekends.

Thanks for reading, I hope you got a laugh out of my craziness- I'm there for ya'! I am slowly adjusting to our new life and will be back in full force shortly! So stick with me- thanks!!!