Was going to make the same dish Helena made...even bought what I needed for it. Then, realized, I spent almost 4 hours doing yard work on Sunday, I was going to grill and eat outside if it killed me.

So I scraped some recipes off of Rick Bayless's site.

Grilled Lobster with Smoky Garlic Mojo
Grilled Chicken with Escabeche Sauce
Some grilled corn with some Mexican cream and Queso Fresco

Then, realized I had a lot of food, so Laurie invited a friend over. I tuned to the Mexican station on Pandora...and poured a glass of nice reposado tequila a friend brought me back.

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Still on my Mexican kick, I made Pollo en Salsa de Fresadilla Y Chipotle from Diana Kennedy's cookbook. Fan-fucking-tastic. Just with whatever leftover corn and flour tortillas I had in the house. Dinner for 2 total+lunch tomorrow for 2....7$ and I that's because I had to buy Mexican bay leafs and a bunch of extra garlic.

Tomatillos? 2lbs for 99cents and I needed only 1.5lbs.

Limes? 10cents at the Bravo Supermarket.

Chicken? 3.5lbs? 3.50.

I swear, next week, I'll attempt my own tortillas.

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Alright, I'm obsessed with Mexican food/cooking. I'm not good at it...yet, but damnit I'm trying. I think I like it because I like the Mexican grocers in town.

I wanted something simple/basic to make last night so whipped up Diana Kennedy's recipe for simple Mexican Rice. Arroz a la Mexicana. Threw some left over grilled chicken in there too. Came out awesome. Could have maybe used some more tomato flavor, but I followed the recipe, and used fresh tomato over a can, and maybe the tomatoes just weren't the best.

She sure does use a blender a lot in her recipes...I can't imagine this is really that traditional? maybe I'm wrong. Either way it worked out.

Sorry for the bad cell phone picture.



Tonight, some chicken in a salsa of Tomatillos and Chipotle.

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Risotto is usually pretty heavy...but I craved it last week and whipped up a modified recipe I found on the web (I'll find it again, and post a link, I promise) made with summer squash, some fava beans, and fresh ricotta topped with some basil from the garden (by garden, I mean the pot of basil I try to prevent the neighborhood cat from pissing on!) It wasn't much less "heavier" but....it was my justification from gorging on it in the summer!

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