Weaver, I was just thinking about you last night and here you are! Hi Binder, GC, 2long, SLH, AD and anyone else I missed (oops almost forgot J)

Hi FF! Don't worry about forgetting me. I'm not around that much anymore.

Spent another idyllic weekend in Ohio, though. Most of it I can't talk about on a public forum. Let's just say that I'm starting to understand how sex could be sacred enough to need to be protected by a marriage. And this from a kid who was born during the Summer of Love. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

As for the rest of it, it was darned good. The weather outside was frightful, to be sure. Snow and blowing so hard that it wasn't even tempting to step out the door. So we stayed in. We ate, uhm, three meals in 48 hours. Plus some grapes and cookies. One of those meals was dinner with HoFS' sons. We went to Applebees. Then we went to Wal-Mart for smoothie makings. We went home and made them, and then played Risk. Tons o' fun, which was very cool for all kinds of reasons that I can summarize this way: Each small step is good. Each time a small step is enjoyable, it's a little bit bigger step.

Love is a really good thing. Just don't drive when you're under its influence. (No, I didn't. HoFS drove while I purred.) <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I think I'll hold my comments on that one...but the visual which comes up girl.

Hi Faith...

I think of you often, but this thread doesn't come up that often anymore so I missed your post.

I feel kind of stupid re: the quote I wuoted in light of what is going on now, but I guess it is still true.

An update on me? DW and I have called it quits...for now. Who knows maybe someday we will find ourselves together again, but we both have issues which the R brought up, and I guess the R couldn't withstand those issues.

(((WEAVER)))

Thank you Kimmy! I'm fine though...it doesn't hurt all that much...

just when I breathe, blink, smile, eat, sleep (what's that?)

I'm kidding, I'm fine.

In other words, only on days that end in "why?"

I know you're fine....none of us have quit breathing yet....

Somedays, I just don't know how I ever crawled out of bed...

Somedays, I can't believe I'm still breathing.

KWIM?

Cook anything good lately?

Yes, when DW was here I cooked some killer tortilla soup and carnita's. Didn't think of you at all while I was cooking it. LOL

Think of you when I make those enchiladas though...dayam!!! That sauce is good...maybe if I had made that for DW instead?

...oh no, where are those tissues?

>...oh no, where are those tissues?


Blame it on the onions.

I'm making sausage kolaches tomorrow. Wanna come over for dinner?

Yes. Will the fishermen be out in the bay?

{{Weaver}} I adore you! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

J
---Spent another idyllic weekend in Ohio, though. Most of it I can't talk about on a public forum. Let's just say that I'm starting to understand how sex could be sacred enough to need to be protected by a marriage. And this from a kid who was born during the Summer of Love.

I think you are there! What a lovely, lovely way of thinking. sigh..........

I worry you wouldn't like my style of tacos, Kimmy.

I pan roast a cut-up chicken. Takes two go-rounds if you use an ordinary iron skillet.

While the bird is in the oven I chop up spinach and an onion, then sit and have a beer.

I move the pan back to the stovetop, put the chicken in a bowl, stick it out on the porch to cool, defat and deglaze the pan, and throw in the chopped onion. While the onion sweats over low low heat, I chop taco condiments, then I sit down and drink a beer.

I finish the beer, shred cheese, then get another beer.

After I wake up, the chicken is cool enough to shred.

Into the pan goes a jar of salsa verde, the chicken, and the spinach. When the liquid has reduced a little and the spinach is wilted, you eat.

Now, some people take boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut them up, and just cook everything at once. That's fassssst, but it's 100x better with roasted chicken.

GC

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I worry you wouldn't like my style of tacos, Kimmy.


The main question....Corn or flour????

I'm hungry now, GC. Really, REALLY, bear-ish hungry. People better get outta my way on the drive home hungry.

Thanks a million.

PS: I LOVE anything spinach. ANYTHING.

>The main question....Corn or flour????

For me... CORN. Anything from south of the border that has chicken and tomatillos, I go with corn.

But the other night I made this for my friends and they wanted flour. So flour they got.

GC

south of the border, gc?

Is't that like ... Iowa? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

-ol' 2long

Yeah right, 2long. I think it's a felony to put chicken in a taco down there.

Finally, an evening at home, by myself. Things have been crazy recently. Too much going on. Too much.

Female attention is swell, but man, it gives me worries. I wouldn't mind stepping away from it for a bit. Unfortunately, keeping your distance just makes them like you more. Crazy chicks.

GC

I'm making tacos tonight.

This is a total comfort childhood food for me; I'm using the Old El Paso taco kit. Y'all can snicker now, and that's just fine with me. It's alllllllllll about the crunch and the taco seasoning and how it takes me back to being six years old.

I do make killer enchiladas and sopa de lima, though. And GC is absolutely right. This is food that's muuuuuuuch better when you start with a whole chicken (or at least bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts). Home-made salsa verde, home-shredded cheese, oooo, lala. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I like 'em both, GC...it just depends on my mood. I also make my flour torts. It makes Wookie happy....and they do taste better...I just can't make 'em round...they always end up in the shape of Texas or Louisana...

>Crazy chicks

Cest moi?

Honestly, the ones that like ya too much give me the willies. KWIM? Like, what's the hurry? It's not a footrace...

>I'm using the Old El Paso taco kit.

You're going to h-e-double-hockey-sticks. Seriously. Send me some of your homemade salsa verde and I'll put in a good word for you with the Big Guy.

- Kimmy

Kimmy, I prolly am going to heck, but it's not for the tacos. It's all the, err, complicated living I did as a young pup. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I'd send you some homemade salsa verde, though. I wonder how I could get it there without breaking or spoiling. It's purty good, purty mild, stuff.

Or you could just follow the recipe that I use, which is from, err, that famous Mexican chef guy, you know the one. *sigh* My brain is still purring.

And Weaver, just so you know, there is NOTHING impure about that image. Just imagine me in the passenger seat of a car (fully clothed, seatbelt on, car moving) looking sleepy, content, and .... well, purring. Not one single thought of any kind floating through my head except PURRRRRRRRR.

That's the image you want.

>Not one single thought of any kind floating through my head except PURRRRRRRRR.


I know that lack of thought...I've been not thinking like that a lot lately myself!

;-)

The Mexican chef that is so white he's pasty? The one on PBS?

Uhm.

Ahhhh.

Thank goodness for Amazon.com and all the other supplemental brainpower that's available these days.

My recipe is from the book Authentic Mexican by Rick Bayless and Deann Groen Bayless. That's also where my sopa de lima and enchilada recipes are from. The cookbook is, in my humble opinion, a must-own for anyone who likes Mexican food of any kind.

I don't watch much TV, but Amazon says that he's "host of the PBS-TV series Cooking Mexican," so prolly that's the same guy.