Kim Gentes - worship leader and writer

One of the favorite teachings I've heard is by Professor Peter Fitch. The sermon is called "Fat Souls". It is a great teaching about how ancient voices from church history can feed us with good things and deepen our relationship with God. You can find Pete's teaching on this in both a book format (Catching God's Heart, Destiny Image 2010) and online at the website of his home church, SCV (audio teaching and PowerPoint). I needed just this type of wildly obscure reference to spirituality and food to bring together a topic near and dear to my heart and stomach. My wife's enchiladas!

My wife, Carol, has some truly great dishes that she makes. One of the best is the recipe for her giant enchiladas-- they can literally fill you up on a single serving. They are amazing. They didn't technically "save my soul", but they saved my body from hunger and made my soul happy! Really these are truly amazing. If you cook, or know someone who cooks (and you can convince them to cook you this)- you must try these. For the rest of you, these pictures are provided just to make you jealous! (For the purists out there, these aren't typical, traditional, mexican style enchiladas. They are more correctly categorized as large ground beef burros baked enchilada style. But they, nevertheless, taste amazing!)

Monster Delicious Enchiladas

Sauce ingredients

1 can Rosarita mild enchilada sauce, 28ozs.
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can tomato soup
2 tsp. vinegar (white)

Filling ingredients

4 lbs. ground beef - lightly browned
4 cups grated cheddar cheese (mild) + extra 1/2 cup to sprinkle on top

Tortillas

8 Large Size Mission Flour tortillas
Oil

Toppings

1/2 a bunch of green onions cut up
Sour cream

The way it's done

Step 1 - Mix and heat the sauce ingredients.
Step 2 - For the filling- Cook the meat until browned. Once the meat is cooked, drain the fat, then add the cheese and melt it into the ground beef, mixing it together. This helps the ground beef stick together nicely.
Step 3 - Fry tortillas quickly on both sides in a fry pan/skillet on medium heat. Be sure the pan is lightly greased with oil.
Step 4 - pre-spray a 10x14 inch glass pan with a non-stick spray, such as Pam. Pour a little of the enchilada sauce mixture on the bottom of the baking dish.
Step 5 - For each of the 8 tortillas you have just fried, place a generous helping of the meat filling (ground beef & cheese mixture) on the tortilla. Once the filling is on tortilla, sprinkle with an additional amount of cheddar cheese. Roll, and arrange in glass dish, seam side down.
Step 6 - Pour on remaining sauce over the wrapped tortillas, completely covering them. Sprinkle with the additional grated cheese. Then top with green onions. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Serve with sour cream.

OK, now the most important instructions---

Eat it. And enjoy something like this.

If you feel you need one more highly inspirational thought because you are reading my blog, then offer up this nice one from the quote-master himself, Mark Twain--

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain

God bless & happy eatin!

Kim