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