Big Dreams & Simple Pleasures

A few years ago I signed up to receive a free, quarterly magazine called “What’s Cooking” from Kraft.  Now, the recipes are all on-line.

The recipes are generally very simple, easy to follow and, frankly, the pictures of the finished product are very inspiring!  I have enjoyed using and modifying these recipes over the years.  It’s kind of an on-going joke in my house that I never really follow a cooking recipe to the letter, but that creative aspect is part of what I love most about cooking… well, and tasting the results!

Here is an example of one of my successful modifications:

I made “Better-Than-Ever Beef Enchiladas”  into a vegetarian dish!

-My original recipe called for a 540 mL can of black beans which I used but, oddly, they seem to have forgotten to include that in the online recipe!  It’s kind of important!
-Instead of ground beef I used about 1/2 cup cottage cheese and extra salsa.
-I used grated extra-old white cheddar,
-I used an organic Italian dressing,
-I added garlic and chili spices instead of cilantro since I’m not a huge fan of cilantro and my hubby doesn’t really like it at all.

Here is how it turned out, we loved it!

Let me know what you think!

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