Comments on: Homemade Enchilada Sauce

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:51:42 +0000

I tried this recipe tonight with shredded beef enchiladas. It was awesome. Thanks for the easy and tasty recipe! I added the cumin and also a little finely diced jalapeno to the sauce for the heck of it. Again, so good!

By: L. Marino

L. Marino — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:26:33 +0000

Interesting website! I’ve been making enchilada sauce for years, having worked at a now defunct full service well-known chain that starts with a Ch for many years I stole many recipes not to mention made them millions of times. plus i have one from a mexican friend. anyway, i’ve never seen the use of tomatoes or sauce in enchilada sauce; it’s more like a red chili gravy, if you will. i also use chicken base, and it’s really killer if you use real butter for the roux. also the cumin is important to round out the chili flavor, they are a marriage in flavors. but hey, just a comment, your recipes look great. ench sauce freezes well, too. by the way, for cheese enchs, take your shred cheddar/co-jack and mix in a small amount of the sauce, with finely chopped white onion, to bind it, and roll it in 3/4″ logs within the corn shells which have been briefly dipped in hot oil to become pliable. these freeze well, too, don’t sauce them before freezing. freeze individually on a cookie sheet and then place in a ziploc. you can bake even only 2 at a time on a heavy china plate with the sauce and cheese on top. thanks! i find your word usage very entertaining.

By: jim Peterson

jim Peterson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:37:16 +0000

Good morning, Guys…Really a cool website you have; informative, and lotta fun.
I’m a bail bondsman, and so have lotta time on my hands just waiting for the phone to ring. Also, my hobby is cooking, and the two things tend to go hand-in-hand. My wife is an accountant for a large company, and loves to work, so I do all the cooking, and everyone is happy.
A few years back, she mentioned how expensive food was getting, and how hard it was for people on a limited budget. She made a comment that we couldn’t eat for less then 100 bucks a week. I told her that we hardly spent 100 bucks a month, and got the credit card statements for the last month to prove my point. We very seldom use cash; every purchase is made by plastic. I showed her that we spent a total of 120 bucks that month. This was just regular spending, and not trying for any record. I used coupons, shopped cheap markets where they sell a lotta food bulk. I make bread in a bread machine, etc.
I check the flyers for good deals, like chicken on sale. I can usually buy a whole chicken for about $2.20. The first night I would make breasts poached in wine with tarragon, a favorite. The next dinner, or lunch I would use the dark meat, maybe in a casserole I would then throw the carcass in a large pot, fry it in a little oil, then boil it with seasonings and rice or barley & veggies. We would get at least 3 lunches or dinners out of the soup.

By: Mama Kalila

Mama Kalila — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:30:06 +0000

I grew up w/ homemade sauce and this is nothing like it. But since I’m seeing comments about tasting like cans that would explain it… I won’t go near canned sauce lol.

Ours uses the dried chile’s, water, oil, flour, salt, pepper garlic & (family addition here) chicken bullion. Takes a little longer than yours since you have to boil the chile’s and blend them, but still definately worth it.

Btw, I second JD’s comment about stacked w/ an egg. Is how we eat them too and is soooo good. My husband tried it for the first time a few months ago, was sceptical & love it too lol.

By: Sithean

Sithean — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:17:34 +0000

I love your $3 recipes, and could care less if you’re off by however much. Thank you SO MUCH for helping others out like this. You are the greatest! Please, please never stop!

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:15:50 +0000

Hello! I found your website looking for cheap (but healthy) recipes to feed my family. My husband is in the US Navy so I have am use to working on a very small budget for everything. This month however, his ship (after spending almost two years in the shipyards getting maintence down) were finally able to open their cafeterias to their sailors. What does this mean for my family? It means I lost the $150 allotment given to us by the military to use on food (because the service memeber would be able – if desired – to eat all his meals on the ship (and nevermind that he doesn’t do that so I have to feed him at home (and me!)).

When I saw your posts for $3 meals I was a bit sceptical. But I picked six of your meals to add to my shopping list and I picked six boxed meals. I figured if I went over on your end I’d at least wouldn’t go broke if I had picked 14 meals from your collection instead of 6.

I must tell you. I saved $100 this shopping trip. I was amazed. Absolutely blown away. $100 to a military familiy is like a dream come true. I am almost speechless at how amazed and how THANKFUL I am for your site. You say in multiple posts how you don’t like how people tell you that you miscalculated a price. I say they’re not worth it because you saved me ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. And even though I only supplied half my meals from you – they are healthy and they SAVED – ME – ONE – HUNDRED – DOLLARS.

Thank you! Thank you so much! Please please please!!!! PLEASE!!!! Never stop putting up more meals for $3. I was thinking that all help was lost that I’d be making Hamburger Helper for months at a stretch but you have showed me I don’t need to do that. I CAN AFFORD TO FEED MY FAMILY GOOD FOOD! I can’t even imagine what I would have saved if I picked all my 14 meals from your site. I’d probably faint at the cashiers.

Thank you so much – thank you, thank you, thank you!

By: JD

JD — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:17:13 +0000

This recipe looks great! I’ll have to try it soon. My lazy way to make enchilada sauce is to start from a can of tomato paste, thin it out a little (i.e. water it down), dump in some spices and heat it up. For the super lazy way, you can even heat it up in the microwave.

Also, a way to cut back on dishes is the stacked method. It eliminates a pan. You make the sauce and get everything ready, then just layer the tortillas, sauce, cheese, and whatever else, directly on plates that you can stick in the over, microwave, whatever. Then you just have plates to wash. This is best with a fried egg on top.