11/13/12 & 11/14/12 - Roasted Potatoes & Lemon Green Beans / Taco Bake

Well, I’m way behind on my blog, and honestly have no idea what happened these days. There is nothing on my schedule at work, nothing on our home schedule. No pictures. No facebook updates. It’s like the world stopped turning for two days! Weird. I do know what we ate, because those are the only photos I took, but that’s about it. So, that’s all you get from me for these days.

On Tuesday, we had the breaded pork chops I’ve made a couple times, along with some roasted potatoes and lemon green beans. So, I’ll provide the potatoes and green bean recipes:

Ingredients:

• 4 Potatoes
• Olive Oil
• Salt, Pepper and Preferred Spices
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• Lemon Zest
• 1½ tbsp lemon juice
• Salt
• 1 lb Green Beans
• 1½ tbsp. Olive Oil

Directions:

Potatoes

1. Scrub the potatoes and poke holes all around them with a form. Microwave for 5 minutes on each side.
2. Cut into chunks, line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and place potato chunks on top. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with your salt, pepper and spices.
3. Bake at 325 for 10 minutes.

Green Beans

1. Clean and trim green beans.
2. In a saucepan of boiling, salted water – boil beans for 10 minutes. Drain, and return to the pan, removed from the heat.
3. Toss with olive oil and lemon juice.
4. Serve, sprinkled with lemon zest.

On Wednesday we had a Taco Bake. By look and sound, it’s nothing spectacular. But, I’m telling you, this was delicious. Christian raved about it, the girls scarfed it down, and I loved it. Super easy, pretty quick and really good:

Ingredients:

• 1 lb Ground Beef
• 1 packet Taco Seasoning
• 3 Large Flour Tortillas
• ½ cup Salsa Con Queso
• 1½  cups Shredded Mexican Cheese

Sides:

• Rice-a-Roni
• Pinto Beans, “refried” (mashed)

Directions:

1. Brown the ground beef, and mix in the taco seasoning
2. Once heated through, remove from heat and mix in the salsa con queso.
3. Spray an 8” round baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Layer the bottom of the pan with a tortilla. Add 1/3 of the meat mixture, then 1/3 of the cheese. Repeat layers two more times.
4. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes.
5. Allow to cool for a few minutes, slice and serve. We dressed ours up with some sour cream, lettuce and tomatoes.