Spicy Enchiladas

Date & Time: February 19, 2009 6:30pm
Main Course: The most wonderful and beautiful spicy enchilada Carolyn made the world’s greatest chicken enchiladas (I recently found out she reads this…) with green verde sauce sauce sauce sauce. I have to admit I was promised ground beef and requested pork enchiladas to go with the chicken and ground beef but neither happened… The kids were fed taco meat, ground beef with taco seasoning and corn chips. Wyatt also ate half an enchilada and enjoyed it.
Sides: Jalapeno hot sauce; jarred salsa and chips; a new batch of black beans that are a little spicy due to the funny smoked jalepenos I included; shredded Mexican cheese; and sour cream.
Beverage / Libation: Normal bottle of white wine of some sort and a large bottle of Livingston chardonnay.
Desert: I don’t’ think we had any.
Guests: Tom and Sue. Marcie and Ella. Andy had a Starbucks meeting to go to, work more important then burrito night, that’s just crazy. Some people have priorities all messed up...
Misc.: I wish I had something good and witty to fill this spot with but as is typical I don't. Well at least I don't have anything I'm prepared to put into a public forum...

Cheerio and have a wonderful weekend,
NATE

Tacos

Date & Time: February 12, 2009 6:30pm
Main Course: Well we cooked up a good batch of ground beef taco meat using a taco seasoning packet from Aldi. We had flour tortillas and Noah had nachos.
Sides: Jalapeño hot sauce; jarred salsa and chips; black beans with garlic and breakfast sausage (I figured if bacon works why not try spicy breakfast sausage… it was good); 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: I can’t remeber
Guests: Tom and Sue.
Misc.: Since I’m writing this a week late I barely remember…

Cheers,
NATE

Burrito Night Soup Night

Date & Time: February 5, 2009 | 6:30pm
Main Course: The main course consisted of soft and hard shell tacos. The filling was seasoned ground beef with fried potatoes. Additionally, Carolyn made a large crock pot full of some soup / chili. Everybody enjoyed the soup. The soup had what appeared to be Italian sausage, potatoes, white hominy, beans, and some other stuff.
Sides: Jalapeno hot sauce; Aldi Velveta with jarred salsa and chips; black beans with garlic and bacon (everything’s better with bacon); shredded cheese; guacamole from a plastic bag; and sour cream.
Beverage / Libation: Jug of Livingston Chardonnay and a bottle of red wine. Both bottles were empty when I was doing the dishes but I think the jug of wine was consolidated into a smaller carafe, or at least I hope it was.
Desert: Some sort of chocolate pudding cake slices that are microwave.
Guests: Tom & Sue and Andy, Marcie & Ella.
Misc.: Sue was late and Marcie was late. We didn’t wait for them…
Cheers,
NATE

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