Caliente!

Oh, Enchiladas. You are hard to make and worth every minute. Has anyone out there actually MADE enchiladas before? They are time-consuming! You make the filling, with ground beef, onion, parsley, cheese and sour cream, then you set it aside. Then, you make a sauce out of cumin, chili powder, water, bell pepper, jalapenos, and tomato sauce, and boil it down. Then you put the sauce in a pie plate, and dip each side of eight tortillas into the sauce. Then you fill the tortillas with the filling (duh), roll them up and line them up in a baking dish. Throw the rest of the sauce over the whole mess and bake for 20 minutes. You can garnish it with green onions, cheese and sour cream. I used cheese and onions, since the filling used up the rest of my sour cream (Scott had late-night gigs all week and used up some sour cream for post-gig nachos).

We ate our fill Thursday night and I actually brought the leftovers over to my mom's on Friday and we ate them with some chips, salsa fresca and guacamole. They were even better the next day! Who knew Betty could do a Mexican classic so well???

SLIGHT problem: My hands and later on, my face, were almost obliterated by the capsacin in the jalapenos. I don't think my skin stopped burning for hours. Google said to try butter or oil (this blog should be sponsored by some butter company) as capsacin is fat-soluble, but if it's been a few minutes already, forget about it, you're stuck burning for the next 48 hours. AND, to add insult to injury, capsacin is re-activated by hot water. Needless to say, I tried my own home-remedy of Sauvignon Blanc, which helped until I washed my face before bed, which spread the burning to my face upon re-activation. Nice. Get this, though! Last night, as I was making the salsa, I asked my mom to pour some olive oil on my hands after I had handled the jalapenos. It worked!!! Good to know.

I had more wine though, just in case ;)