I just got home from work, and I am about to demolish this gas station dunkin donuts maple frosted donut. This picture is so dark you can’t actually tell, but it’s there. I wish I had some bacon.
Things I am currently thinking about:
- My new house.
- Decorating my new house.
- The proximity of my new house to almost everything I like about this city.
- Not having to put gas in my car as often.
- All the laundry I need to do.
- How much I hate doing laundry.
- Panera’s Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich.
- Falafels.
- What I’m going to make for dinner tonight (I’m thinking a caprese pasta, but we’ll see).
- Comfy Cow dulche de leche de salte ice cream.
- Money.
- How badly I need a new job… someone got murdered at my bar!
- Whether I should take advantage of having a Saturday night off, or if I should just stay at home watching AAAH Real Monsters.
Recently, I stopped eating meat. But lately, I’ve been having a little bit of trouble finding meals that are vegetarian friendly, but also filling and delicious. I guess I’m getting a little burned out on eating the same things over and over. I can’t wait to try this one, though. But maybe I’ll add black beans…
Grilled Pineapple Tacos
makes 6 tacos
3 T butter
1 T olive oil, plus more to drizzle
3 onion, peeled and sliced very thin
salt and pepper, to taste
6 whole wheat tortillas
1 pineapple, skin and inner core removed, cut into 1/2” strips
4 c loosely packed torn lettuce
1 c thinly sliced radicchio
large handful of cilantro, chopped
juice of 1 lime
In a large sauté pan, heat butter and 1 T olive oil, over very low heat. Add onions, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and stir well. Cook 50-60 minutes, stirring occasionally, until onions are the color of caramel. Remove from heat and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350F. Wrap tortillas in foil, and place in oven for 10 minutes, until warm.
Heat grill (or a grill pan), to medium-high, and add pineapple slices. Cook 4-5 minutes on one side, until warm, and just beginning to brown. Flip and repeat on the other side. Remove from heat.
To assemble, top each tortilla with lettuce, radicchio, pineapple, caramelized onion and cilantro. Drizzle with lime juice and olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roll up from one side and enjoy!
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Recap of the weekend:
This past weekend was out of control, and involved the consumption of lots of calories (both in alcoholic and non-alcoholic form).
- Friday was Oaks (the filly race before the Kentucky Derby). I woke up at 5 am to drive to my parent’s house to see my cousin, his wife, and his friends. They had just arrived from Toronto, Canada for the Derby. Then we ate a massive southern style breakfast and Kitty had her puppies! Afterwards, I went to work but because it was beautiful out and we were pretty slow, I decided to leave for a bit. I went to meet the Canadians on Bardstown Rd for some shopping and coffee. Then it was back to work, where the crowd was piling in after spending their day at the races. I left sometime late that night, and pretty much went straight to bed. I needed my rest to prepare for the all day drinking extravaganza that was Saturday.
- Saturday I woke up around 8ish, and drove back over to my parent’s house. We had bagels, coffee, and mimosas for breakfast. It was chilly and rainy out, so in one of the saddest moments of my life I opted to wear jeans; an oxford; and a poncho, rather than a pretty dress; heels; and a flower in my hair. Then we took shots of bourbon (in celebration of Kentucky), and made our way to the Kentucky Derby sometime before noon. The Derby was pretty much a bust this year, with all the rain and the mud, my pressure induced migraine, and the shitty cellphone service that caused Tommy to get there only to leave right after when my phone decided to go straight to voicemail instead of ringing through. But it was okay because there was betting; mint juleps; lilys; bourbon; turkey legs; and beer. I decided to embrace the fact that I was in Kentucky and walk around barefoot in the mud. After we left, the Canadians wanted to order Papa John’s (for their garlic butter, apparently you can’t get that anywhere where they live) so we did that, and then went out to the bars. Derby weekend is absolutely the biggest weekend for bars here in Louisville, so they all stay open until 6am Friday and Saturday. I put on my pretty dress and heels that I had planned to wear to the races and went out and had an amazing time. Around 5:30am we left the bars, stopped at White Castle for some drunken calorie consumption (they’d never been to a White Castle and wanted to try it), and went home to bed.
- On Sunday I woke up on my parent’s couch with a terrible hangover headache. I put on another pretty dress (the one that was my backup for the Derby) and we piled in the car to go to Lynn’s Paradise Cafe for breakfast. We got a flat tire on the way, but eventually made it there where Tommy and Mackendo met up with us. It started raining again, and my hangover headache quickly became another pressure based migraine, so I went home to sleep it off. When I woke up, it was still raining but the Canadians wanted me to take them to “see Louisville”, so we walked around downtown, saw the bat, and visited 21C. Later that night, we had a family cookout where more beer was consumed, and the went to see The Losers.
The Canadians left today after breakfast, and I’ve pretty much been recuperating from the weekend since. Pictures to come, but I normally use my phone to take pictures and it was dead most all of the weekend (which was kind of awesome), so there aren’t a lot.
April 4th, 2010
Watched the Red Sox beat the Yankee’s in the first game of the season with Ashlea over Oberon and cheese sticks… pretty perfect.
March 9th, 2010
Krispy Kreme banana pudding donut. I ate so many of these it was kind of scary.
Cabbage Soup Recipe
this is going to be fun. except not really. i really need to track down my prescription for topimax (i am so terrible at keeping up with important things) so i can finally start to look and feel like a normal sized person again.
