A Monday & A Meal

I don't know if you are anything like me, but I have a hard time embracing Mondays. I can get a great night of sleep, have a delicious breakfast, a good cup of coffee, and have a good hair day but it still does not seem to impact my attitude towards this particular day of the week. I wish I could share that I have some strategy to overcome this, but for now I don't - just big plans to work on it.  

Overall, today was a regular kind of day with one exception - the silver lining of looking forward to Monday Night Football. Adam and I are Indianapolis Colts fans and when it comes to watching games we have 2 things working against us. 

1) We don't have cable/satellite (very loyal Hulu/Netflix consumers of course) so we are at the mercy of local channels and their broadcast rights to games. 2) We live in the heart of Green Bay Packer country, so all television programming revolves around Packer programming. 

All of this to say, when we have the opportunity to watch the Colts play, we get pretty excited about it. So that is a little bit of life today. Just a regular kind of Monday. A little ministry and then finally time for some football watching together. 

In honor of the Colt's game tonight, we tried a new recipe for dinner which I thought I would share here! Last year, my mom gave us a year-long subscription to eMeals which meant that every week for the last year eMeals has sent me a weeks worth of recipes and a grocery list to match. 

Since it is just the two of us we usually do not cook 7 nights a week, so even though our year-plan is over, we still have lots of meals to try out! 

On the menu tonight was a dish called Mexican Rolls - takes about 20-30 minutes to prepare, and then cooks for 40 minutes aka not something to make last minute BUT after making and eating it tonight, it is worth the process! 

Mexican Rolls

INGREDIENTS

10 uncooked lasagna noodles

1lb ground beef or turkey

8 oz low-fat neufchâtel cheese, softened

1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt

15 oz can black beans, drained & rinsed

1/2 cup corn kernels

14.5 oz can diced tomatoes

8 oz can tomato sauce

1 envelope taco seasoning

1 TBSP chili powder

1 TSP cumin

1 TSP garlic powder

1 TSP salt

2 TSP dried oregano

1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350F
• Cook lasagna according to package; drain & lay flat to dry
• Cook ground beef or turkey in a skillet until brown and crumbly
• Combine cheese, yogurt, taco seasoning, cooked ground meat, black beans and corn in a medium bowl
• In separate bowl, combine diced tomatoes (drained), with tomato sauce and all spices
• Spread enough of the sauce mixture on the bottom of a 9x13 pan
• Spoon meat filling onto each lasagna noodle, spreading evenly over the length of the noodle; roll up and place seam side down in dish; Repeat with remaining noodles and meat mixture
• Spoon remaining sauce over top of rolls, sprinkle with shredded cheese
• Cover with aluminum foil & bake for 40 minutes

Hopefully you enjoy this meal as much as we did, would love to know how it turned out for you. Download your own copy of this recipe too :) 1. Gray 2. Yellow 3. Blue