Days 12 and 13: TACO PARTY!

Ok, So this time I acutally have had a couple of busy days.  Tuesday, there was working, grocery shopping, chiropracting, and yoga.  While I was at yoga, Derek went to a cycling race thingie.  So busy day for us both, really.  For dinner, we had Beef Tacos with Radish and Avacado Salsa from the same Martha Stewart cookbook that brought you the glazed carrots from the other day.  What a great cookbook.  Plus, it's so nice of her to put the recipes I want to share up on her website.  I thank you, Martha. 

They were pretty good tacos.  I'd never broiled meat before.  In retrospect, I don't quite know how I've avoided it for this long.  It was so easy!  The steak ended up maybe a little rarer than I meant it to be, but neither of us really has a problem with rareish beef.  We used white corn tortillas (we doubled up on each taco since they were so juicy).  Sadly, I could taste the tortillas more than any other ingredient.  The radish and avacado salsa was very tasty.  Now I have a nearly-full jar of pickled jalapeno slices that I have no idea what to do with. 

Do you guys know what I can do with pickled jalapeno slices?

I served them with a Dole bagged Southwestern salad.  It's one of my favorite ones. 

Actually, I like all of their bagged salads.  The dressing is always really good.  This dressing especially.

When yoga class wrapped up on Tuesday night, I left a little disappointed at the length of our Savasana.  It's the last pose of the night, where you just lay there on your back and, you know, be.  It's a big part of why I like yoga, and it's always a huge bummer when we run out of time for a good one.  But then, on my way home, I was skimming through the satellite radio channels, looking for something relaxing to maintain my calmness, and my radio landed on the Cinemagic station, which plays movie scores.  And so I drove home listening to the Ghostbusters music.  It was fantastic and perfect.  It was the bouncy part of the score, when things in the movie were going well. 

Then, last night, I skipped the gym (I just tried to type the past-tense version of "forgo" instead of "skipped."  Then I thought, "Forwent?  I'm not sure that's a real word??"  But then I thought, "eff it, I'm gonna use it anyways, because eff the establishment, that's why!!!")

Then, last night, I forwent the gym for the Taco Party at Rojo Mexican Grill in St. Louis Park.  There were 9 of us total.  It was really fun!  We had a couple of drinks, and ate some delicious tacos, and had a super-duper time.  I'm sure the mixed drinks were great, but I have to suggest the red sangria.  Very summery and refreshing. 

I ordered the chicken tacos and Derek the fish, and then we swapped one so we could each try both. 

 The Chicken Tacos

The Fish Tacos



There were refried beans and "sticky rice" on the side.  Both delicious.  The tacos were totes delish, too.

I have to go get ready for the gym in a minute.  I'm tempted to skip the gym and go walk around outside, but I think I'll be disappointed with the temperature, and I'm 100% sure I won't get as good a workout in as little time as I would at the gym.  Sadface.

OMG I <3 HP series, photo #3

Honeydukes

This (clearly) is Honeydukes.  Full of magical treats like chocolate frogs and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans and such.  It's connected to Zonko's joke shop.  This is one of my favorite pictures from our trip.  The whole park felt sort of whimsically crooked like this. 

Let's all take a moment to be a little too excited that HP 7.1 comes out tomorrow.  HIZAH!