Showing posts with label dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinner. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

food matching

Sometime in junior high home ec class, I was taught to make sure to always have a variety of colors on the plate. Sometimes, though, it's fun to break the rules.

At least the plate is pretty.
This was not tonight's meal though. Tonight we had super delicious shrimp tacos. I picked up fresh tortillas from Fiesta, fried up some shrimp with fajita seasoning, and put oil and lemon on some shredded cabbage. That with guacamole and chips- Leila thought I should open my own restaurant.
I did mean to take a picture, but once I got everyone served to their requirements, I was too hungry to remember it.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Filling the house with yummy smells.

Tonight we're having enchiladas for dinner. Mine are healthy, and good, I think,- much better than the strange, bright red tortilla, too much sauce ones that H got at a restaurant last month. I made them semi from scratch- okay, not really. I boiled up some chicken legs earlier, had already cooked extra broccoli last night, and I always have grated cheese on hand. The tortillas were left over from Monday night's tortilla soup- bought fresh that day from Fiesta. The enchilada sauce- and plenty of it- was in the pantry. (I usually run out too soon). So I put together two pans of this, and one went in the freezer. I don't fry my tortillas before hand so it's pretty easy to do.

The problem is, every time I've got chicken bones, I feel the need to make broth, but I don't have room for it in my freezer, and dinner tomorrow is the shrimp in the fridge. But I gave in and you can see the pot boiling away in the back- with carrots, almost-done-for celery, a bit of onion, and cilantro for flavoring. Next week I might have to make some black bean soup with it.
Now if the fam would get back from the park we might get to eat before bedtime.