 Hey guys, welcome back to another week of What's for Dinner. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. We are all about the food on our channel. We do taste tests, recipes, grocery hauls, and What's for Dinner. And we are kicking off another week. What you'll notice is that this dinner video is coming out on Tuesday instead of Thursday. So we are switching it up a little bit from here on out. Our dinner videos will come out on Tuesdays. So tonight we are having a pantry meal. So we are having some leftover Mexican rice and I made this the other day and we had some leftovers. I wanted to use it and I have a really simple recipe for this Mexican rice and I recorded a video on it. So I'll make sure to link it below. Now the difference between this Mexican rice and the one that you'll see on the video is that for this recipe I use salsa verde, which is a green salsa. On the original restaurant style rice I used a just regular traditional red salsa. So we're having that. We're also having some refried beans and this is what we are using. This is what I had in my pantry and these were new to us. These are instant refried beans, jalapeno flavor. So all you do is boil some water and then you add these in and it's kind of like making instant mashed potatoes. However, what was kind of surprising to me is that when you open up the package, these don't exactly look like beans, dried beans. They look a little bit different, but they turn out like that. So we tasted them and Howard thinks they're pretty good. I think they taste a little bit more dry than a regular, you know, than regular refried beans that you would buy in a can, but he seemed to think they were okay. So we're having refried beans and then we're having enchilada casserole and I made this using ingredients that I already have on hand. I had some chicken in my freezer that I cooked up when I found some chicken on sale. I cooked it and I shredded it. So I had that pre portion in the freezer. I also had some corn tortillas in the freezer too and I had cheese, sour cream and cream of chicken. So I am going to insert a video or a link in right now and I will show you how I made this. Hey guys, so this is enchilada casserole. This is a really quick and easy recipe that I made up using stuff that I have in my freezer and in my pantry and my fridge. So let me show you what you're going to need. You're going to need 16 ounces of sour cream. You're also going to need a can of cream of chicken. You're going to need 4 ounces of the green chilies and then you're going to need some tortillas. Now the tortillas I had in my freezer. This is a pack of 30. These are the small corn tortillas and we only used about half of them before I stuck them back in the freezer. So there's about 15 tortillas in here and then whenever I find chicken on sale I always cook it up and then I shred it and freeze it. So this is about probably 3 cups of shredded cooked chicken breast and then I have about probably 4 cups of cheddar cheese and in this bowl I have already mixed the sour cream, the cream of chicken and the green chilies and I have my stove preheating to or my oven I should say preheating to 350. So I'm going to quickly show you how I layer everything up. Okay so I have an 11 by 7 pan and the first thing you're going to do is to put a little bit of the cream cheese mixture on the bottom of your pan and you're just going to spread it around a little bit and then you're going to start layering your tortillas. So I'm going to use 4 tortillas per layer so I'm just going to lay it out just like this and that is my oven saying that it is ready. So I'm going to spread a little bit more cream cheese, sorry sour cream mixture over this. It doesn't have to be perfect because it's a casserole and everything is going to blend together once you put it in the oven. So another layer of the sour cream and then I'm just going to use some of my chicken, spread that out, some of my cheese and then you're going to repeat the layers. Okay so here it is, I've layered everything up. My oven is already ready to go set at 350. So I'm going to stick this in the oven for about 30 minutes or so and or until all the cheese is melted. Hey guys so for dinner tonight we did not feel like having leftovers and neither of us, neither one of us was really hungry so Howard is having these Shanghai seafood dumplings. He's having the Alaska cod dumplings and here they are, they're microwave. Now I haven't tried them because I'm not big on fish but he said they do taste like fish. He said they're pretty good but they're not soup dumplings so they don't have the liquid in the middle of them but he is having them or these I should say and I am just having a bowl of ramen soup and this is what it looks like and I've never had this before and I've had it in my pantry for a while I really don't remember where I got it from but I tasted a little bit of the broth and it's very good, it's really flavorful. So anyway this is what we're having for dinner tonight and we'll see you next time. Hey guys so for dinner tonight we are having sesame chicken and here is what the package looks like it is from Inovation and I usually like their food but I've never had the sesame chicken and it is a lightly battered tempura chicken breast with a sweet and savory sesame sauce and this is what it looks like on the package and here is what it looks like on the plate and I am serving it over some jasmine rice and the package directions for the sesame chicken say that you can bake the chicken or pan fry and I chose to pan fry the chicken and then we are also having a pork egg roll and this is what the package looks like for this I showed this recently on a tom thumb haul and we really like these egg rolls I'll show you another picture they're really good I cook them in the air fryer and you get four in a package and I they have pork in them and cabbage and they're really good so and they also come with little sweet and sour sauce packets and I don't eat the sweet and sour sauce but Howard does he really likes it a lot so this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time hey guys so for dinner tonight I stopped by the kalachi factory earlier today and brought these home and here's what it looks like there is some controversy about how you pronounce kalachi so I say kalachi other people say kalak I don't know but basically what it is is a kind of yeasty bread and it's stuffed with either meat or sweet stuff and so it's served room temperature and they'll warm it up for you I think it's like in a microwave or my preferences to bring it home and so Howard's first one is a creamy spinach and then here are the other three that we had to cut open to figure out what they are so he got a brisket one barbecue brisket and then he got a chicken enchilada and he got a I think it's an Italian chicken and then for me I got a bacon and cheese and then a sausage one and then for dessert we got this huge I cannot remember what it's called it's like a twist kind of like a long cinnamon roll so we are going to split that and it's really big it's at least gosh maybe 12 inches long it's pretty big anyway this is what we are having for dinner tonight this is Howard's one of Howard's favorite I think restaurants so this is what we're having for dinner tonight we'll see you guys next time hey guys so for dinner tonight I was craving a salad I went to Kroger yesterday just to pick up a couple of things for this dinner we were going to and I noticed that they had some organic butter red lettuce on sale so what I typically do is I'll get lettuce and then I'll go to a salad bar and just get all the fixings and all the sides because it to me it's cheaper than if I were to buy you know just olives on their own or onion and all that stuff broccoli so in my salad it's kind of hard to see I have some pasta from the pasta salad I mean some pasta from the salad bar and I think it was like an Italian salad and then I have some olives I chopped up some broccoli and some red onion and then also I have some Parmesan cheese in there I have some crispy wonton strips and then I also have some grilled chicken in there as well so it's like a hodge-podge of the salad and then I still have my favorite shiitake salad dressing that I love I love this stuff so that is the salad dressing that I'm using and Howard is just having butter lettuce with just ranch dressing he didn't have him he didn't want any toppings on him so anyway this is what's for dinner tonight salads see you guys next time