I had tacos, too. Visited son after doctor appointment and we tried out the new location of Taco Mesa in Anaheim. Son had skirt steak nachos, dil had a giant beef taquito and a quesadilla, and I had blackened shrimp tacos. The chips were beef tallow fried and the sauces were divine. Later, there may have been a jalapeño margarita. My first alcohol since I went alcohol free March 1st.
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Summer tomatoes were late this season, but now that they’re here, time for a pasta with uncooked tomato sauce! This one’s a pile of chopped cherry tomatoes, olive oil, shredded mozzarella, a couple smashed garlic cloves (fish them out before serving), fresh basil, and crumbled dried Greek oregano.
There was a little bit left over that I enjoyed as a pasta salad for lunch the next day. As summer-y as it gets.
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@GretchenS, now I need to make this. I also saw on the COTM thread that you make your own tartar sauce to go with, and toast the panko with olive oil. I’m in!
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Looks fantastic!
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Delicious, and so summery! 
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Great gig last night with many friendly faces in the crowd 
Our sax player crashed with us and finished the very uninteresting pizza leftovers my PIC brought home, whereas I nuked a bowl of that delovely shrimp & corn chowdah I’d been looking forward to for most of the set 
Martinis for dessert that I can still taste this morning. Umm… yum?
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Your idea of adding roasted hatch chiles to chowder sounds delicious. Noted for future reference.
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Shrimp and Chorizo Taco from Wes Avila’s “Guerrilla Tacos” - corn tortillas are filled with seared shrimps, cherry tomatoes and crumbled chorizo. Topped with tomatillo salsa (tomatillos, avocado, serrano chili, garlic, cilantro and lime juice are pureed)
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Sounds great.
To me it is crying out for Potato to be in the mix with that Chorizo, you know, just to hold it all together 
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Last night I repurposed leftover ragu in a whole wheat pasta bake with rotini, thinly-sliced eggplant and zucchini, shredded mozzarella, Parm Regg, and 1% cottage cheese blended with prepared pesto. Tasty with a salad with Italian dressing. The kiddo loved his mini minus the veggies and ate the whole loaf.
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What a clever idea to make him minis!!
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I picked up two more bags to roast this weekend 
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Besides BB dates, I also generally ignore actual expiration dates, too. Going back to BB dates, in my (extremely cold) freezer, I’ve had rib roasts, turkey, duck all fine 5 years later.
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Potatoes and chorizo are a good combination but I don’t think they pair that well with shrimps. And the tortillas in general also have some “heft” and so additional carbs could make it too heavy. But as a play on egg foo young scrambled eggs could hold everything together
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It’s nice to have a backup meal in the freezer for occasions when he is not going to be into what the adults are having.
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We are going camping this weekend, so tonight’s dinner of leftovers furthered the goal of eating down the fridge. No pics.
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Corn salad with tomato, cuke, radishes, jalapeño, basil and feta. Dressed with evoo and red wine vinegar.
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Double Carb is always good in my Book◉‿◉
Tacos de Papa, Torta de Tamal, Samosas, Bolani etc…
But to each their own.
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OK, that’s awesome.
Is that similar to gozleme?
