Redmond, Washington

A good solid chili mac, and it works for whatever variety of mac-and-cheese or chili you prefer. I go for Hormel beanless chili and Kraft Thick & Creamy macaroni and cheese. It came out quite well, for what it is: a convenience food, made of a convenience food and canned food, that is more than the sum of its parts.

Glad I found this recipe and the great reviews with tips. Super advice! I gave this 3 stars since I modified it quite a bit. The modifications I made really did make for a great dish. First, I boiled the chicken (5 breast halves) in water w/some chicken bouillon for 20 mins. To my surprise, this made the chicken very tender and easily shredable. I shreded it with 2 forks. Then continued with the recipe. Per another reviewer's suggestion I omitted the sour cream, tomato sauce, water, chili powder and taco sauce and replaced all of that with 1 jar (just buy the medium size) salsa and 1 can (buy the bigger 19-24 oz can) enchilada sauce. For the filling, I followed directions with the shredded chicken and added about 1/3 jar of the salsa mixed with 1/3 can of enchilada sauce. Next time I may just omit that step and won't add cheese since real enchiladas don't have that in them. Rolled the ingredients in tortillas and topped pan with the remaining enchilada sauce. (You can use leftover salsa as a condiment.) I originally forgot to add the bellpepper and garlic to the filling before rolling them - so I saute'd (sp?) the mixture and sprinkled over the enchiladas before adding the cheese and enchilada sauce. Try to get fresh tortillas (Costco sells raw tortillas.) It was muy delicioso!

Okay, though I hate it when people alter the recipe, I'm guilty of doing it for this recipe. I'm sure the recipe is fabulous as is, but I made slight modifications. I replaced about 3/4 of the water with coffee and added a couple of squares of dark chocolate to the cocoa mix. I took out half of the butter and substituted it with 1/4 c. applesauce. Also replaced 1/2 c of all purpose flour with whole wheat and added about 2 T of flax seeds. Other than the coffee, I couldn't even taste any of the substitutions! And yumm man was that cake good eatin'.