No Recipe, Recipe!

I love making casseroles!  Sometimes there's lots of steps to a casserole but the majority of the meal is all in one baking dish!  Overall it's easy-breezy! 

A few months back I was cruising through my cookbooks I have on my Nook and came across this healthy Tex-Mex casserole.  I tried it out and we both liked it enough for me to try again.  Here's how I can tell if my fiancé truly does like a dish I make....if the leftovers get eatten in the near future.  If leftovers from a certain meal sit in there until they go bad it's likely the meal was a miss-fire!  This particular casserole was eatten up within a couple days.  I remembered all the ingredients while shopping at the grocery store yesterday afternoon, no need to actaully look up the recipe until time to make dinner.

When dinner time approached I turned to my Nook for the recipe. I looked and I looked for this darn recipe.  I couldn't find it in any of my cookbooks on my Nook.  I tried numerous searches and many different key words, no such luck.  After a little encouraging from my fiancé I decided to go it alone....no recipe.  The meal turned out great, a success!  And my fiancé commented that this time around was better than the first recipe.  Now he might be saying that just to boost my confidence...but I don't mind comments like that in the least.

So fresh off last night's successful meal I have taken on a challenge!  I mean a challenge!  I'm a former Zonie!  Zonie's do not cook with a lot of Cajun spices.  Arizona does not border Louisiana! However, tonight I will attempt my first Cajun-style meal.  I will be making jambalaya!  My fiancé loves jambalaya.  Him and his dad have a fave spot they eat jambalaya at after playing tennis together.  He recently asked me if I could attempt jambalaya for him.  Normally when he has a fave spot to get a specialty type of meal at I try to stay away from cooking it at home.  Because I feel the restaurant version is going to far surpass my version.  Especially since I'm so nutrition mindful!  But he asked so I must try it for him.  Fingers-crossed it turns out well!  My jambalaya is currently simmering on the stove and smells great!