Mmmmmmm Steak!

Date & Time: August 28, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: STEAK! Carolyn bought me steak or maybe it’s for my brother but I tend to thinks it because she knocked my robot parts down the steps… Anyway We had three skirt streaks and two chicken breast. The steak was coated with vegetable oil and then sprinkled with kosher salt, fine garlic powder and some chili powder and left to sit for about an hour. The chicken was coated with oil and the salt and pepper only. They were both cooked on the grill the steak was nicely medium rare hmmm. We had it with flour tortillas that were heated on the grill after the meat was to get a little toasty and greasy but still soft hmmm. I thought it was too much food but looked forward to having steak for lunch on Friday. As it turns out I have mainly chicken for lunch on Friday, they ate my steak… as Sue would say buggers.
Sides: Chips, homemade salsa with tigerella tomatoes and tomatillas from the backyard and store bought garlic, onion, cilantro and lemon juice, cheddar cheese, sour cream, black and pinto beans and made freshly over the weekend jalapeño hot sauce it’s a little spicy this year. My first picking of peppers yielded about 7 pounds (two bowls). Oh and I almost forgot we also had fresh made guacamole (I’m glad I have spell check…) I’m not sure if the avocados were also bought out of guilt for knocking my robot parts down the steps…
Beverage / Libation: Some sort of large bottle of Livingston wine.
Desert: The kids had Creamsicles the adults had leftover ice cream pie form Noah’s birthday party sleepover (made by Carolyn included chocolate ice cream, Oreo crust, Oreo crumbs on top, and cookies and cream ice cream).
Guests: Tom and Sue and Uncle blue hair, although his hair was black so maybe it’s back to calling him Uncle Jon… Apparently, a couple of weeks of teaching and he needed a vacation… He really flew in on Friday and is driving a car back to Florida with him on Sunday. He’ll miss the Labor day BBQ hmm smoked pork.
Misc.: Not much else to say. After dinner we sat around the table and Sue Noah and Wyatt played a version of Pictionary where they all had to draw the same picture and the rest of us judged them. I should have scanned the picture to include here but I didn’t. I should have taken a picture of the food to include here but didn’t…

Eso es todo amigos,
NATE

Pre Noah Birthday Festivities

Delia enjoyed the black beans and chorizo.

Date & Time: August 21, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: Smoked pork tacos with flour and corn tortillas. The pork was left over form the last barbecue. It’s been in the freezer for a while and was slightly dry but still tasty.
Sides: Chips, homemade salsa with tigerella tomatoes and tomatillas from the backyard (the garlic, onion, cilantro, red bell pepper and lime came from the grocery store though), mozzarella cheese (Tom forgot the cheddar cheese requested by the four year old, low fat sour cream, black and pinto beans with chorizo sausage hmmm.
Beverage / Libation: Linies Sunset Wheat, Some sort of large bottle of Livingston
Desert: The kids had vanilla ice cream cones.
Guests: Tom and Sue. Sue came back we thought she didn’t like us anymore…
Misc.: The boys danced around the front room for half an hour requesting the chicken dance multiple times. Upon not being able to take the chicken dance anymore Pseudo Echo - Funky Town was played followed by the Elvis vs. JXL - A Little Conversation. Then they were put to bed. After reading a couple of books and brushing their teeth.
Cheers
N8SK8

“Little Donkey” Night

Date & Time: August 14, 2008 6:30pm
Main Course: Grilled chicken with onions and red and yellow bell peppers. It was more or a fajita night then a burrito night. There were both flour and corn tortillas that were warmed on the grill. The chicken was rubbed with chili powder, garlic powder and salt and drizzled with vegetable oil and allowed to rest for 15 minutes before transferring to a very hot cleaned grill (I use a Weber Genesis Silver which I would recommend to anybody looking for a really good grill). The vegetables were rubbed with vegetable oil and put on the grill at the same time as the chicken. The peppers charred slightly on the outside.
Sides: preshredded mozzarella cheese (we were out of cheddar or other cheese, cheese doesn’t last long in out refrigerator.), sour cream, Home cooked black and pinto beans no chorizo sausage sausage today. Yup a bowl full of tomatoes, a bushel of peppers and a couple head of lettuce in the garden and we didn’t eat any of it.
Beverage / Libation: water and maybe pink lemonade.
Desert: Delia and Wyatt both had long popsicles (freezer pops), Noah had a Hershey’s bar and a slice of cinnamon cake, I had a orange standard popsicle on a stick, and I have no idea if Carolyn had anything.
Guests: Not applicable
Miscellaneous burrito information: Wyatt had a rough day. His pillows were stacked funny Wednesday night and woke up with a soar neck on Thursday and spent the majority of the day on the sofa watching TV. He didn’t even go soccer camp which he is getting better at (the first day he told me “my feet are for walking not kicking”…). When he did walk around he had his Gilbert Junior (a new version of his blanket that turned into a ball of string and is currently MIA) wrapped around his shoulder in shawl fashion and looked like a little old lady hobbling about slowly. I am happy to report that following a bath after dinner Wyatt is doing well and his neck muscle loosened up. So with Wyatt crabby all day we didn’t feel like inviting guests over.

Cheers
NATE

Hmmm Fresh Salsa

Date & Time: August 7, 2008 6:30pm

Main Course: Ground beef tacos. Noah’s had a friend over that in theory liked tacos so we made crunchy shelled ground beef tacos with flavoring from a packet. Hmmmm. There were also flour tortillas.

Sides: Chips - Tostados scoops, homemade salsa with tigerella tomatoes and tomatillas from the backyard (the garlic, onion, cilantro and lime came from the grocery store), a second bowl of hot salsa was the same as the first bowl but with a rather hot jalapeno from the garden diced and included, (my lips were burning, the peppers are hot this year), preshredded Mexican taco cheese, sour cream, black and pinto beans with chorizo sausage, shredded lettuce not from the garden (I was lazy and didn’t want to go get some, it’s been bitter anyway).

Beverage / Libation: Corona with Lime (think you Sara, I can’t remember if there’s an ‘h’), Linies Honey Wies.

Desert: Chocolate stick cookies from Aldi’s, I believe.

Guests: Sarah, Jake and Dillon (Wyatt and Noah’s friends and their mom). I will refrain from making fun of the regulars for not coming because they are going somewhere tomorrow...

Cheers

NATE

Happy Birthday Buzz!!!

Date & Time: July 31, 2008 6:30pm (Wyatt’s birthday)

Main Course: Wyatt wanted ground beef tacos. So we had ground beef tacos… I cooked and finely chopped onion with the ground beef. Then I drained the ground beef and added the packet of taco seasoning and added the ¾ of a cup of water and simmered. This is also Noah’s favorite. Noah ate one and Wyatt ate one and a half. I was hungry so the crunchy taco shells didn’t get cooked as long as they should have been meaning they weren’t all that crunchy. The silver lining of the not too crunchy crunchy tacos was nobody had catastrophic crunchy taco shell failure, which generally has a relatively high incidence rate.

Sides: jalapeño and garlic hot sauce, cheddar cheese, home grown lettuce, and taco sauce. I was unable to locate any salsa in the house (the tomatoes should be red by now and turned into homemade salsa) and I forgot the sour cream in the fridge.

Beverage / Libation: Some sort of white wine

Desert: Frozen mediocre key lime pie. We did put the big four candle into Wyatt’s piece of pie and sang to him in the typical Morriss tradition (nobody singing at the same tempo and lots of woots in between lines, rather awful to hear). I have to say it’s always boring when I hear happy birthday sang normally…

Guests: Tom. We might revoke Sue’s invitation. Uncle blue hair is in Ohio or something and returning to Florida early next week for classes (who’s going to help remodel the bathroom).

Miscellaneii: Wyatt had a rather laid back birthday. He visited me at work with Carolyn and Noah and we ate at Boston Blackie’s. Wyatt ate all the bacon off my burger, it was his birthday… The party was over the weekend and we had maybe 30 people over it’s a good thing it didn’t rain… Wyatt choose Mr. Sub so we got a dozen sandwiches for the party. Following the party the whole family headed for the blue line to go to Wicker Park Fest and see Bishop Allen play. The kids enjoyed the train ride.

Happy Birthday Wyatt,

NATE