Happy Birthday Tom

Date & Time: November 20, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: Chicken Enchilada prepared by the lovely Carolyn. There was one tray of tasty cheese and chicken enchiladas toped with tasty Chihuahua cheese. Which according to Wikipedia comes from cows’ milk and not from the milk of the smallest dog breed of the world… Regardless of the origin of the cheese product the enchiladas were tasty and I managed to eat three which clearly was at least one too many… Noah ate a small bowl of Frosted Shredded Mini Wheat followed by a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios.
Sides: Velveeta and salsa queso dip; sour cream; jalapeno hot sauce; and Mexican rice (i.e. white rice with salsa).
Beverage / Libation: The large bottle of Livingston chardonnay wine. We drank it all…
Desert: Sue brought over a cheese cake for Tom’s birthday. Unfortunately we did not have a permit for the number of candles required so we only used about 10 sparkle candles…
Guests: Tom and Sue.
Misc.: The children each made a birthday card for Tom. Additionally, we sang to Tom in the typical horrendous Morriss fashion and made a number of joke about how he barely looks like he’s 75. The rumors spread last week about Uncle Blue Hair being around turned out to be a lie… As it turns out he apparently had something better to do then burrito night.

Peace,
NATE

I’m back behind the skillet

Date & Time: November 13, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: Back to the standard everyday ground beef. But I do enough it. Was the standard ground beef with onions, chili powder, garlic powder, salt and cumin. Hmmm. This was served on tasty small, soft taco style, flour tortillas that Tom was nice enough to bring.
Sides: Lot’s to choose from today. We had that tasty Velveeta and salsa queso dip using Aldi-eeta and Aldi salsa, a tasty synergist treat; Jalapeño hot sauce, black beans with chorizo sausage sausage; sour cream, Wyatt discovered he did not like sour cream, “It’s too sour”; corn ships; taco sauce, from a jar; cheddar cheese.
Beverage / Libation: The large bottle of some sort of white/chardonnay wine I think I remember seeing a large V on the side or something. We drank it all…
Desert: Sara Lee carrot cake. Everybody loves Sara Lee carrot cake…
Guests: Tom and Sue.
Misc.: Tom was rude enough to take a cell phone call during dinner without excusing himself from the table. How uncultured.

Rumor on the street is uncle Blue Hair may be around for next burrito night.

Peace,
NATE

Meatloaf?

Date & Time: November 6, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: Carolyn is on a cooking roll… She had a taste for a Mexican meatloaf that she has made before. Unfortunately, like meatloaf in general, it just doesn’t look good… Anyway I believe it had ground beef and ground pork and was tasty. I helped and put the layer of cheese on 30 minutes before it finished baking. If I say so myself the cheese was expertly arranged but alas it could not hide the ugly pile of meat look of meatloaf… Well the recipe calls for a sweet salsa glaze which I apparently complained enough about last time that Carolyn was kind enough to serve the glaze on the side.
Sides: We had the remains from three jars of salsa mixed together in one bowl (really only two jars the third jar was thrown out…), Jalapeño hot sauce, sour cream, white rice for Noah, black beans with chorizo sausage, and corn chips.
Beverage / Libation: The large bottle of Livingston chardonnay apparently is no longer adequate to quench our thirst and a jug of the aforementioned beverage was opened… But not finished.
Desert: None
Guests: Tom and Sue.
Misc.: Following dinner everybody gathered to view the video of Noah as scene two narrator three in Ms. Kandas’ second grade class performance of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. We all smiled. Secondly, it should be noted that the robot now plays a simple drum beat. Yet surprisingly Carolyn still thinks it's a waste of time and I should be building a new kitchen… I on the other hand have been studying up on drum notation and microprocessor/EPROM programming…
Cheerio,
NATE

Taco Wagon

Date & Time: October 30, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: Noah had a Halloween party that ended at 6:30pm. So we had tacos after the party. We didn’t have taco seasoning so Carolyn looked up on line and found a tasty recipe to make your own taco seasoning similar to the packages…
Sides: We had a home made salsa with canned tomatoes; plain ol’ sour cream, jalapeño hot sauce; black beans; taco sauce from a jar; and chips.
Beverage / Libation: Large bottle of chardonnay that was half gone before Carolyn came home with the kids…
Desert: they had a enough candy at the Halloween party.
Guests: Tom and Sue.
Misc.: Following dinner we carved a dozen pumpkins. Yes I have a band aid on my left index finger from a pumpkin carving incident. Lot’s of blood. The seeds didn’t get toasted yet…
Cheerio,
NATE

Mile high enchilada pie

Note forgot to post the update last week. It was sent out via email but not updated here..
Date & Time: October 23, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: Carolyn made a crock pot dish called mile high enchilada pie. It involves layers of corn tortilla and sauce and other tasty ingredients. You lift it out of the crock pot and cut it like a pie… hmmm.
Sides: We had a home made salsa with canned tomatoes, home grown tomatillos, onions, lime, garlic…; Also there was Mexican sour creama, jalapeño hot sauce and chip.
Beverage / Libation: Large bottle of Livingston chardonnay and some Lienies Oktoberfest. .
Desert: Let over pumpkin pie that Carolyn made the night before. Hmmm. Needs whipped cream.
Guests: Tom. Sue’s in England….
Misc.: not much to say…
Cheers,
NATE

Spicy Enchilada

Date & Time: October 16, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: Carolyn cooked up some tasty enchilada using the frozen left over chicken from last week andchicken broth from her mother. They came out very good.
Sides: We had a bunch of cilantro in the fridge form the week before so I whipped up a salsa with half an onion, one lime, two can of diced tomatoes drained, a can of black beans drained and a can of Mexican style corn (yellow corm with red sweet peppers???) , and some garlic and salt; Carolyn bought a bag of scoops which needs the ‘fresh’ style salsa; sour cream Mexican kind; and jalapeño hot sauce.
Beverage / Libation: Box/cube of wine from Target it was a chardonnay we use a carafe to make it look elegant...
Desert: Ice cream, Neapolitan. Noah wants only chocolate and vanilla, Wyatt wants all flavors, Tom had strawberry, Carolyn had chocolate and I had strawberry and vanilla.
Guests: Tom. Sue came late but the food was already cleared. She quit her job and went out for drinks with the old coworkers….
Misc.: Sorry for the late update but work got in the way…

Cheers,

NATE

Blown off!!!

Date & Time: October 9, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: We had Grilled chicken marinated in a paste made from onions, garlic, lime juice, salt and cumin. There were also thick onion slices brushed with oil and grilled.
Sides: We had some tasty sides to go with today. We had 4 avocadoes that got turned into a tomatillo guacamole. The tomatillos were roasted and blended with garlic and smashed into the avocadoes (Delia probably ate an entire avocadoes worth with a spoon); black bean with extra chorizo; store bought fresh like salsa; Mexican sour cream; shredded cheese; homemade Jalapeño hot sauce; blue and yellow corn chips; corn tortillas that were still warm when Carolyn bought them from Tony’s.
Beverage / Libation: Jug of Livingston Chardonnay served with ice cubes.
Desert: None.
Guests: Tom and Sue. Lisa and her family were supposed to come over for dinner. They were flying up from Texas and the airline offered them money to take a later flight; they are no longer welcome at burrito night…
Misc.: The boys danced around to fine music including the Chicken Dance, Our House by Madness and others.
hmmm guacamole…
NATE