Chicken

Date & Time: January 29, 2009 6:30pm
Main Course: The grill was lit and chicken breast were cooked. Additionally, thick onion slices and a green and a yellow bell pepper were grilled. The Aztec tortillas were warmed on the grill. I was regretting wearing a tshirt to cook outside in the 10 degree weather. The tortilla seemed to take forever to heat…
Sides: Jalapeno hot sauce; jarred salsa and chips; black beans with garlic and bacon (everything’s better with bacon); shredded Mexican cheese, I think it just cheddar; and sour cream.
Beverage / Libation: Large bottle of wine of some sort. I think it was white…
Desert: Some sort of chocolate cake or something. Delia ate most of mine…
Guests: Tom and Sue.
Misc.: My fish decided to snack on the eggs instead of incubate them for three weeks like he’s supposed to… I think maybe I need to increase the tank temperature.

Cheers,
NATE

hmm bacon

Who’s not sick...?

Date & Time: January 22, 2009 6:30pm
Main Course: Carolyn made some sort of tasty enchiladas that she found a recipe in some book for. Apparently Carolyn's mother brought over some boiled chicken. Carolyn used flour tortillas and mixed the chicken with sour cream and cream cheese, and then they were topped with a tomatillo salsa and some shredded cheese. Tasty.
Sides: Jalapeno hot sauce; jarred salsa and chips; black beans with garlic and pork; Mexican rice, well technically with was white rice with taco sauce mixed in.
Beverage / Libation: We had a box of Chardonnay that came from Target. There wasn't much left.
Desert: None
Guests: Tom and Sue but Sue was late and we didn't wait... We warmed a plate for her when she arrived.
Misc.: I think I said earlier this week that we haven't had much sickness this winter. Later the same week Noah has strep throat and scarlet fever. Delia has an ear infection and can apparently produce movie quality vomiting in the back seat of the car... So stay well.

Cheers,
NATE

Happy Birthday Liz (belated)
Date & Time: January 15, 2009 6:30pm
Main Course: We had ground beef soft tacos. The ground beef was tasty and mixed with fried potatoes. The kids enjoyed the fried potatoes on the side and Noah ate a potato burrito. They were tasty and almost everything was eaten even thought there was plenty of food…
Sides: We had sour cream; jalapeno hot sauce; jarred salsa and chips; black beans with lots of chorizo, hmmm; and there was guacamole that came out of a plastic bag which Delia enjoyed. It seems like there was more…
Beverage / Libation: We had a box of Chardonnay that came from Target. The box was the equivalent of 4 bottles and there was some concern we would finish it. I think we drank maybe half but it’s hard to tell with the bladders…
Desert: We ate funny English candies that Sue gave the boys for Christmas. See photo of Wyatt with his Basset’s Licorice Allsorts. There were also Jelly Babies and some other little packet of gummy squares.
Guests: Tom and Sue.
Misc.: Happy Birthday to Liz even though she’s is 4,347 miles away in Bolivia, which it turns out is about a sixth of the way around the world.

Cheerio,
NATE

I resolve to eat more burritos!

Date & Time: January 8, 2009 6:30pm
Main Course: The grill was lit. We cooked chicken breasts, bell peppers and onions out in the cold and snow that makes up the Chicagoland winter. It was well worth the trouble. I felt sorry for the grill since the water pan from roasting the turkey on Thanksgiving was still fill of fat dripping and water all frozen on the burners. Need to grill more. We also heated the tortillas on the grill this gives them a nice burnt / greasy and tasty. Hmmmm.
Sides: 4 avocadoes were turned into guacamole which it seems I can finally make without using a packet from the grocery store. I’m pretty sure Delia only ate guacamole and shredded cheese for dinner, that’s my girl. In addition we had sour cream; jalapeno hot sauce; jarred salsa and chips (no the chips were not in a jar..); and black beans with chorizo.
Beverage / Libation: The large bottle of some sort of wine which was drank…
Desert: Carolyn made chocolate cookies that were a gift from Chris and Heidi in a little set with cookie cutter. The cookies tasted like brownies and the cookies cutter were trouts, moose and a bear. They were good.
Guests: Tom and Sue.
Misc.: I’m not really sure what happened to the burrito updates between thanksgiving and Christmas. Since Xmas and New Years were on Thursday this year we had other responsibilities to attend to other then burrito night. I not really sure how something can be more important then burrito night but these priorities are not always set by me... Now don’t ask what happened on 11/27, 12/4, 12/11 and 12/18 because I can’t tell you. I do think Lisa was in for one of those burrito nights. Why I didn’t update the blog can only be explained as me being lazy, which I am.

Peace,
NATE