Meeting Planner and Home Cooking

In the industry I am in....we learn to eat leftovers off of banquet carts in the hotel "back of the house", cold hors d'oeuvres from the reception earlier that night, buffets, restaurants, and good ole in room dining menu. $20 dollar "not so fabulous" hamburgers are not unheard of with the plus plus added on for room service. Needless to say, "Home Cooked" meals are not very often in my family's repertoire. Even when I am home and not travelling I am just too exhausted many nights to cook a really nice home cooked meal. Yes.....poor unfortunate husband and son but ....they love me anyway!!!!

So the other day my friend posted a recipe on her cooking blog about ground turkey enchiladas!!! Check out her post below. It is AWESOME!!!!!! She always cooks the most delish recipes!!! She has a full time job and a 6 month old!!! I dont know how she does it but she has some major cooking talent....something I lack BIG TIME. http://stickstoyourribs.blogspot.com/

So the recipe my amiga cooked was from scratch enchilada sauce and...her final product looked...well...alot better than mine...(I am new at this can you tell?). But as a meeting planner we have to be resourceful in this industry and do what we can "logistically" to make it work! AND I WAS DETERMINED!!!!

First I limped through the grocery store (still in a cast) to collect all my items in under 10 minutes! I had to get home to the nanny to get Brady!!!! Corn tortillas, enchilada sauce (tex mex), cheese-cheddar and monterey jack, rotel, black beans, taco seasoning, black olives and green onion (I think this was the only "fresh" product on my cart...sigh..).

Got home and immediately cooked the jennie o turkey while shredding cheese! (Hey at least I shredded it and didn't buy the shredded bag!) added taco seasoning and rotel to the turkey meat to give it FLA-VA!!!

Now it was time to feed Brady.....luckily he can do this pretty much by himself now!!! Thank god!!!!! Check him out!

I then layered the baking dish with Pam spray and then enchilada sauce rolled the turkey and cheddar into the corn tortillas and got the "canned" beans (our side dish) ready for MICRO-WAVE!! I know really bad.....Brady got some left over shredded cheese as a snack before his dinner. Rice Cereal and Fruit. Yum! added monterey jack to the enchiladas with sauce on top and baked for 30 minutes.

All and all....it actually came out a yummy delish meal and Damon was impressed with my inspiration to cook! sprinkled green onion and black olives after removing from oven.

Now Damon has leftovers since I head to San Diego this week for a Conference for 3 nights at the fabulous magnificent Grand Del Mar!!!!! This hotel makes me drool!!! Can't wait!!!
http://www.thegranddelmar.com/

Hope you all get some inspiration from sticks to your ribs site!! I know it inspires me!! Wish me luck at the Conference this week.....I actually am on a panel....gulp.....hope I do well!