Skillet Tostadas

Quick? Check. Easy? Check? Good? Check.

This is not the most amazing meal I have ever cooked. But if you are looking for a quick and extremely easy meal that is great left over, this one's for you. We made this on Monday and it's lasted us until now. The dish also nice to prepare together. Easy to manuever around a small kitchen together.

Ingredients

1 lb ground beef
1 onion, chopped
2 cans black beans
2 cans condensed nacho cheese soup
1 cup bottled salsa
totada shells
shredded lettuce
chopped tomatoes
sour cream

Method

Using a large (emphasis on large) skillet, cook the beef and onion until the meat is brown and the onion is tender. At this point you should drain the fat, but I never do. Mostly because I use my dad's grass fed beef raised on our farm which is lean and doesn't have the fat. Stir in beans soup and salsa. Let it simmer a bit (that's as technical as I've got for you).


Heat up your tostadas. Mike and I tried these:


We're trying to be a little more healthy where we can, and these have 7 grams of fiber per tostada and only 50 calories compared to the usually 100+. I think they are great when used like in this recipe: as merely a vehicle for the meat and bean mixture. If you want a dish that focuses more on the tortilla, I would go for the more authentic flour ones.

Pile up the tostada and enjoy!

Quite Possibly the Easiest Ever

Mike loves country steak and mashed potatoes. I give my man what he loves - even if it is quite possibly the easiest dish to make. Literally, a monkey could do this. That's why I love this dish. It is especially nice when school starts and cooking is not always what I want to do at night. I know that this is not the prettiest dish ever, but it is fantastic and even better left over. Now that's what I call a good dish. My mom used to make this for my family when I was younger, and it has carried on to my household. This is not the best picture I could get of the dish because unfortunately I did not have all the cream of mushroom soup that I thought I did. But even though it was a tidge bit more dry than usual, it was still pretty good. Alright. Are you ready for these directions???

Ingredients

Round Steak
Cream of Mushroom Soup

Seriously. That's it. Do you think you can handle it so far? All you got to do is put the thawed round steak in a crock pot and cover it liberally with cream of mushroom soup. My family raises its own beef, so I'm not 100% sure how much round steak is in a package, but it usually takes me 2 cans to cover it. Put the crock pot on low in the morning and enjoy it when you come home at night. I cannot tell you many more wonderful smells than a dinner already cooked when you come home. That is what I call fabulous.