Days 14 and 15: So easy a Derek can do it!

Good morning, and Happy (belated) Harry Potter day!!

I want to talk more about HP, but I have to wait until I get there, chronologically...you know how it goes.

I think when last we spoke I'd just recently enjoyed myself at the Taco Party.  Woohoo, taco party!!

Thursday, Derek made dinner!  He's a fine cook, although I don't think he enjoys it especially.  I do most of the cooking around here, which I'm totally into, but it is nice to get home late from work to find the Jacqie and Dan Special Sloppy Joes Tacos already simmering for it's final half-hour. 

So we got this message from Jacqie (hey, girl!) about a taco night recipe they'd just used and enjoyed.  It was super duper easy (so easy Derek could do it!) and was quite delicious!  If you want the recipe, I can ask Jacqie about posting it.  We had the sloppy joe stuff on whole wheat flour tortillas with spinach.  On the side, lentils.  I'd never made lentils before, and I've only eaten them one other time that I'm aware of.  And to be clear, I'm using the word "made" to mean "put the presteamed-ready-to-eat-lentil-bag in the microwave."  I put salsa verde on my lentils and a little mustard on my tacos. 

We will definitely be eating this sloppy joe recipe again.  Probably in tacos.  SO GOOD!

We watched Archer while we ate.  Anyone else watch that show?  Funniest cartoon on television.  Go watch it.  The first season is on dvd (there aren't that many episodes in a season, so I think it's only one disc). 

I'd put "restaurant" on the calendar for Friday before we chose the 13th for Taco Party night, and then never changed it because, well, I'm extremely lazy.  Like, really really lazy.  So since it said "restaurant" right on there, and because going to a restaurant is easier than cooking (did I mention I'm lazy?) we went out.  We chose a restaurant in St. Paul that Derek had heard good things about called Rusty Taco.  OMG, you guys, GO THERE.  It's this great little place where you go in and order at the counter then wait for your name to be called.  The menu has all ala carte tacos for cheap, a couple of sides (we didn't have room to try any of those, we were busy stuffing our pig faces full of tacos!) and beer. 

Here's the first round:

I don't remember for sure which ones we got, but I think I ate the Fried Chicken, Beef Fajita (Damon will be so excited for the Fajita taco), Rajas (mushroom), BBQ brisket, and some other chicken one later.  Derek had Fish, Fried Chicken, Brisket, Rajas, and Picadillo (ground beef and potato).  Every one was totes tasty.  The fried chicken sticks out most in my mind because I'd just been thinking earlier that day about making shake and bake chicken fingers and putting them in tacos.  Maybe with honey mustard or bbq sauce? 

I also had a bite of Dereks fish taco, and it, too, was delicious. 

The last taco I had was a chicken one (I'm not sure which...chicken fajita maybe?) and it was very spicy.  By then, however, I had finished my beer.  Derek let me sip on his, but it was really spicy and I was trying to be careful to not finish his beer.  I had a moment when I looked down at my iPhone and just for a moment, got really mad at it for not having "an app for that."  Immediately after, I decided that my phone and I spend too much time together. 

Don't get my wrong, I'm not going to spend any less time with my phone, I just wanted you to know that I recognize that it's weird to be upset that my phone cant stop the inside of my mouth from burning. 

After dinner, we went to the Trader Joes next door in search of some Masa to make homemade tortillas with Derek's new tortilla press.  No luck.  Didn't find it at Target before dinner, either.  I'm worried that we're going to have real trouble finding it.  Worriedface.

Oh, that reminds me, though, that I forgot to mention that after work, before taco time, I stopped at Target for a few things, including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1 on Blu Ray.  OMFG YOU GUYS, YAY!!!

 After we got home from our after dinner errands, I watched the special features DVD while Derek did other things.  Poor guy is going to have enough unwanted exposure to this movie in the near future, it's ok if he skips some of the extras.  Today, I'll maybe watch some of the extras on the movie disc, and then we'll watch the movie together tonight over dinner.  I'll spend some time today looking throught my Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook for British Taco ideas.  Probably Bangers and Mash tacos.  Maybe Steak and Kidney tacos.  If Derek liked pumpkin more, we'd almost certainly have a dessert taco version of Pumpkin Pasties.  Maybe I'll get some diet cream soda and butterscotch schnapps so we can have butterbeers, also.

OMG I <3 HP series #3: 

From whence my Butterbeer, sadly, does not come

And a special bonus picture:



Winged Boars at the school gates

So there's my blog for the day, I think.  If I hurry, I can get quite a bit of HP watching in before Turbo Step starts at the gym.  And a lot of coffee drank, as well.  And I'm so Harry Potter excited that I'm kinda done talking to you guys, so no hard feelings?  Wait, what am I talking about?  You guys aren't even reading this right now, because you're all too busy watching HP, too, aren't you?  Well then it'll be like we're watching together!

Cherio!