3 GOOD YEARS…

Date & Time: February 26, 2009 6:30pm
Main Course: 9 years ago Carolyn was walked down the aisle by Elvis. We’ve been happily married ever since (well there was the map incident…). Anyway we had steak to celebrate. Unfortunately due to rain the steaks were cooked indoors with the broiler. Which I have to say they were outstanding. We had skirt steak, three colors of bell peppers, and onions all broiled up. Very tasty. (3/4/09 response to comment) As it was so rudely brought to my attention in a comment that it looks like we served steak for burrito night, which we did. But the steak was sliced and eaten on either a flour or corn, yes we went all out for the anniversary with both, tortillas which admittedly is a fajitas and not a burrito but is close.
Sides: Jalapeno hot sauce; jarred salsa and chips; black beans with spicy chorizo; shredded quesadilla cheese; and sour cream.
Beverage / Libation: Box of wine from Target. Mostly gone now…
Desert: There was chocolate cake, and chocolate covered peanut butter filled pretzels.
Guests: Tom and Sue. Marcie, Andy and Ella. Marcie was late with Ella but the steak took a little longer to cook inside so she showed up right when we were sitting down to eat. Andy showed up even later.
Misc.: Tom made the joke that we’ve been married 3 good years of the nine… I assume I'm in trouble for that.

Cheerio,
NATE

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