Chimichangas

I've mentioned before that we don't eat out like we used to before children. We used to eat out a lot, and we enjoyed every single meal. Thank goodness for the memories. At 1 and 3, my boys can be difficult to entertain in a restaurant. When we do go out, it's usually for lunch, and it's at one of the places that we know delivers our food very quickly. Cause, really? Who wants to play tic tac toe with an uninterested toddler for 20 minutes while you wait on food? This is not my idea of fun.

All this to say....

Sometimes, you just want food that you normally get in restaurants. Even if it is supper time. And your kids had one of those days, and you don't even dare take them out of the house to pick up take out. What to do? What to do?

You learn to fry chimichangas, that's what you do!

These are beef and bean chimichangas.

Topped with lettuce, radishes, onions, salsa (homemade, but with canned tomatoes), and sour cream.

Mike and I proclaimed them better than our favorite Tex-Mex place! Definitely a winner. Perhaps not so good for the waistline, but very good for the fulfillment of a craving.

Where ya' been??

I'm back from my unintended, unexpectedly long blog vacation!!

Where have I been? Well.... I've been growing sweet baby number 3. We're expecting, June 24th of next year, and we're so excited. But, sometimes, the first trimester isn't the best time to think about food, take pictures of food, shoot, even cook food! So, there has been very little of that going on.

Thankfully, I'm near the end of the first trimester, and I'm feeling tiny bursts of second trimester energy. And my appetite is back! Hooray!!

Date night

This week's date night started with the drink. I found limes on sale 20/$1 last week at my ethnic market. Woohoo! So, for our drink, we had Texas margaritas (a tiny bit of orange extract makes them Texas style). That salty rim is soo good.

To go with our virgin margaritas, we had these fabulous nachos. They turned out really well. The avocado pushed it over the top. Yum!

Drink of the week

Because we had an honest to goodness, out of the house, all day, date last Saturday, I didn't make any fancy meals Saturday night. I think we made do with canned soup and Ramen!

But, on Sunday afternoon, I did make this fun drink that everyone enjoyed. We're definitely from the south, and every sweet drink is called "coke" in my house. My three year old dubbed this one "coke tea." I think that means he liked it.

Everyone else knows it as iced red zinger tea. And, Will was right. It's good stuff.