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Over the weekend, I woke up with an incredible hunger for pulled pork sliders for breakfast. So, knowing that I have some pulled pork already defrosted, I dumped half a jar of basil tomato sauce into a pot and put the pulled pork in with it to heat it all through. While that was, hopefully, not burning, I grated some marble cheese and defrosted some slider buns I had kicked around the freezer.

I made tons. More than we could have humanly consumed in one sitting so we tossed around some ideas of what to use it for later in the day. One idea made Joe’s eyes bug out: pulled pork enchiladas. Dinner idea done!

Super easy to throw together (five minutes) and only need 30 minutes in the oven to heat through, these enchiladas were basically a no-brainer.

Each tortilla had about 1/4 cup of the pulled pork in pasta sauce placed on the bottom 1/3 portion, and then (if you like or have it) a small handful of marble cheese, and them rolled up and placed seam side down in a lightly sprayed metal pan to bake. Over top, I added the last half of the basil tomato sauce and topped it with enough marble cheese to leave a nice cheese layer.

I baked these enchiladas covered with foil at 375 degrees for the first 25 minutes, and uncovered under the broiler for the last 5 minutes till the cheese bubbled and browned a bit. After they came out of the oven, I topped the enchiladas with cut up some bunching onions and flat leaf parsley from my garden, and served them with very healthy dollops of sour cream on the side. Heaven.

Try this today and you’ll agree with me, this is the easiest and tastiest enchiladas you’ll ever make at home. Recipe for the Pulled Pork and the basic Enchiladas came from Every Day Food.

Things I’m thinking about cooking and/or baking in the near future:

Knishes made with wild Canadian mushrooms
Greek Potatoes
Yogurt Pops
Raisin Cinnamon Bread
Pistachio Pasta in Cream Sauce

Which do I think I should make first and publish the recipe to?

Testing the Windows Live Writer Beta software with this post.

So, my bestie since grade three is coming to visit this weekend to check out the new digs, so that means we have to get crackin’ and start/finish the main floor. We have been meaning to do this space up right, but we decided the garden and our achy body needed more attention right now, so we were letting it slide.

Motivation is a fickle woman, isn’t she? Yeah… so… here is what we’ve got so far.

This is our dining room / living room L shaped space. These are the walls on outside of our tiny kitchen (please ignore the mess in the kitchen wherer we stuffed the table, end tables, microwave and toaster oven stand, books, ect.).

The base colour on the wall is some creamy taupe the previous owners painted the house when they staged it, and it works well in our analogous colour scheme, so we matched it with Coronado Dunes from the Behr line. It creates a lovely harmonious colour palette throughout the space as you move around.

We chose to paint all of the small and half walls facing west and east and leave the longer north and south walls untouched. We have one more wall to paint in that space and a few touchups to do before we continue it down the hall into the foyer, but we’re kinda digging the final product so far.

Oh, and note how the tv floats off of the wall. Without any cables showing. I will post about that soon. It’s quite interesting and Joe is very proud of his ingenuity and master network and cabling skillz.

We have a fair sized backyard at our new home. We’re not home during the first 6 days, and we’re running errands on Sundays, so we knew it wasn’t imperative we pick up a high end patio chair and table set with umbrella. We really only require a table with a chair to sit at to eat outside on some nights.

The perfect fit for our needs found us at the local Home Depot. And it was on sale. It was easy to bring home, assemble and then weather proof. We can always drill a huge hole in the middle to insert a pole should we decide we’d like an umbrella later on, too.

This is me applying the first of two coats of the weather proofing sealer. It turned out nicely when it was all done. So far the only thing that’s sat on the table has been our garden plants, but now that they’re in the ground, we’ll have to start eating outdoors from now on.