It’s embarrassing, it really is. I call myself a cook, yet I made this ridiculously easy meal for dinner tonight and we all fell over ourselves loving it. It feels a little wrong, like I cheated on cooking a dinner. There’s something not quite right about a meal with essentially four ingredients, but somehow it worked for us tonight.
John’s burritos consisted of the tortilla, ground meat (we used grass fed beef), a can of re-fried beans and cheese. I know, I could hardly believe it either, but nothing in it sounded gross, so I thought I’d give it a whirl.
I browned the ground beef, stirred in the re-fried beans, put the filling in the tortillas, sprinkled cheese on and baked them for 10 minutes.
Then, I added my own special touches (I use the term loosely). Instead of making the suggested green chile sauce (which sounds delicious and I’ll probably make it someday), I served the burritos with shredded lettuce, fresh tomato salsa, chopped avocado, fresh cilantro and a dollup of plain yogurt (our version of sour cream, but you can see Cate’s version here).
Unfortunately, I also substituted the flour tortillas for corn ones, which are less sturdy but more delicious (and won’t make Owen and I wig out on wheat). Who cares if they weren’t pretty burritos? They still tasted great.
I think we may have found a new go-to recipe tonight. It’s so easy, versatile and customizable that you can’t lose with this meal.
Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on Oct 16, 2009 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
