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T his linky party is the perfect place to show off your creativity! Share your blog posts, for a chance to be featured next month!     WELCOME to the August 2022  " You're the Star " Blog Hop! Before we continue onto the Linky party I wanted to share from my blog: Keep cool during these last few weeks of summer with my delicious 3-Ingredient No Churn Ice Cream ! ___________________________ WELCOME to  HOME feature week of the August 2022  " You're the STAR " blog hop! Meet your HOME week Hosts   This week is HOME feature week Swing by the Home Hosts' Blogs: Bev from Eclectic Red Barn Cindy from Mom, the Lunch Lady Niki from Life as a LEO Wife This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU! There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories.  Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month.   The "theme" occurs in our weekly features:

Pork Enchiladas

A creamy pork and black bean filling is wrapped up in corn tortillas and topped with a simple red enchilada sauce.



Pork Enchiladas- Hun... What's for Dinner?



My mom has been visiting for the past week and boy have we been busy. We purged our storage room in the basement and decluttered the garage. We even held a yard sale, to try and make some money on some of our unwanted items. The yard sale was a great way to meet the neighbours and make a few dollars.


During all this, we were ravenous and exhausted. So I decided to take some pulled pork I had in the freezer and turn it into enchiladas, to celebrate us surviving two days of haggling customers at our yard sale. I also made cheese enchiladas for the kiddos, since that is what they prefer. My Mom isn't a big meat eater, but she really enjoyed these pork filled bundles of goodness. They were super filling and just what we needed after a long exhausting weekend.




Pork Enchiladas- Hun... What's for Dinner?




Pork Enchiladas


1 1/2 C leftover pork, shredded

4 oz cream cheese, softened

1 Tbs dehydrated onion (I used Three Onion Rub from Pampered Chef)

3 cloves garlic, minced

1/2 tsp cumin

1/2 C sour cream

1 C shredded colby jack cheese, divided

1 C cooked black beans

1/4 C pimento stuffed olives, sliced

red enchilada sauce (recipe follows)

8 corn tortillas


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.


In a mixing bowl, beat together the cream cheese, sour cream, dehydrated onion, garlic and cumin. Mix in the pork, black beans and 1/2 C shredded cheese; until well combined. Set aside.


Heat 1 inch of oil in a cast iron skillet. Once oil is hot, using tongs, place one corn tortilla in the oil. Cook for 30 seconds and flip, cooking for another 30 seconds. Remove to a paper towel and repeat with remaining tortillas.


Place a thin layer of enchilada sauce in the bottom of a 9x11 inch baking dish.


Fill a corn tortilla with 1/4 C of filling and roll into a cigar shape. Place seam side down into the baking dish and repeat with remaining corn tortillas. Top with additional enchiladas sauce and sprinkle with remaining shredded cheese.


Cover and bake for 30 minutes, until cheese is bubbly. Remove foil and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with sliced olives and let rest 10 minutes before serving.


Red Enchilada Sauce


1 14.5 oz can tomato sauce

1 Tbs beef bouillon powder

1 Tbs chili powder

1 tsp garlic powder

1 1/2 tsp cumin

1 tsp oregano


Place all ingredients into a small sauce pot and mix to combine. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.


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