Mini-Cooking Session #2

Last week, it was time for another mini-cooking session. This time around, I spread the cooking and preparation over the whole week. Our family was away from home on Wednesday and Friday, so I didn't want to overwork myself on the weekend. For this session, the following meals were included:

Suzie's Chicken Enchiladas (3 meals)
Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting (1 to eat & 1 to freeze)

Chicken Rice Soup (2 meals)

Italian Sausage Soup (2 meals)
Taco Soup (2 meals)

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Monday - Cooked and froze rice for Chicken Rice Soup.

Wednesday - Grocery shopping for the non-perishable ingredients.

Thursday - Prepared all the meat . . . cooked and diced or chopped the chicken and browned all the ground beef and Italian sausage. My oldest son shredded cheese for the enchiladas. Today, I also prepared the Chicken Rice Soup. It's the least time intensive of the recipes and thus has the fewest ingredients.

Chicken Rice Soup

Friday - Grocery shopping for the perishable ingredients.

Saturday - The day for cooking has arrived! My schedule went smoothly and I was done with clean-up just after our noon meal. The schedule below shows how Saturday morning went for me.

Almost all the ingredients for Saturday's Session

7:20a Assemble all the ingredients and start preparing Taco Soup

7:40a Taco Soup simmering on the cooktop & prepare ingredients for Italian Sausage Soup

8:00a Taco Soup cooling

8:20a Italian Sausage Soup in crock pot until 11:20a

Italian Sausage Soup in Crock Pot

8:45a Chicken & onion frying in the pan for enchiladas

Chopped Chicken and Onion

9:05a Enchiladas filled and rolled

My Enchilada-Filling Assembly Line (above) and Pre-rolled Enchiladas (below)

9:30a White sauce for enchiladas prepared and then poured over enchiladas

Topped with cheese and ready for a quick-freeze

9:40a Enchiladas in freezer - quick freeze before wrapping in plastic & foil

9:55a Taco Soup is double bagged & stored in freezer. Started mixing two chocolate cakes.

10:20a Chocolate cake is into the oven for 40min.

10:45a Peanut Butter frosting is ready to go

With this at the end, it makes the chaos worthwhile! Very Yummy!!

Watch for this recipe in an upcoming post - the frosting is sooo good.

11:48a Frost, cut and freeze one chocolate cake

12:00p Wrap & label frozen chicken enchilada meals

12:15p Eat lunch with the family & clean-up afterwards

1:00p Time to Rest!!