It's been a long week here. Texas weather is crazy freezing one moment, perfect day the next, then freezing again!!! Anywho we are back! First of all we want to give a shout out to Robin who tried the Guac this sunday and said it was delicious and to Terry who said she made the BBQ sauce and was awesome, as well as party guest at our super bowl get together who said they enjoyed the lil smokies too (FF)! Secondly I updated the cupcake post and added a picture for all those asking about the cupcakes.
OK im just yammering on so on to todays recipe:
Tortilla Soup
what you will need:
2 seeded soaked ancho chiles (i use poblanos when i can find ancho chile and don't seed them)
1 onion (i use a half a sweet onion)
3 or 4 LARGE tomatoes
2 garlic cloves; chopped
(i also add 2 or 3 jalapeños or seranos)
2 or 3 avocados depending on how how much you like in your soup
Chicken breast (i use H-E-B cilantro lime chicken)
one bag of tortilla chips (i use julios chips)
Chicken broth (it originally calls for 6 cups thats really soupy you can use less if you dont want it so soupy)
lime juice
Puree (blend to a liquid... At first I didn't know what the heck that was lol):
ancho chiles (i don't seed them you can if you wish), onion, tomatoes, (and jalapenos if you wish to put them in)
fry the two chopped garlic cloves in oil in a big pot
after you do that put in a pot and add chicken broth it says 6 cups but add as much as you would like if you like it really soupy then add a lot if not, then not that much
cook HEB Cilantro lime chicken in a pan then shred it or cut it up to your liking and put it in to the pot with the other stuff add some cilantro too and let simmer for a while.
then add salt
serve garnish with tortilla chips, cheese, avocado, a little bit of cilantro and lime juice
You just made tortilla soup!
Ok sorry if we are not updating as frequently its been a rough couple of weeks and it will continue to be hectic around here also cause moose just had surgery :( we will keep you updated on his condition. Any-who we went out to A-Tan Sushi Bar off common to celebrate his birthday and the fact that he was going to have surgery and wouldn't be able to eat normal food for a while.
First off this place is not cheap, but very well worth it!!! We had never been to a sushi bar so this place was a real treat for us. we ordered up our drinks i was really happy that for once a restaurant had Asahi beer (its a japanese beer, really good in my opinion it tastes like corona with out the bite afterwards you should try it some time) Moose had a Sapporo (dont know what the heck that is you can ask him lol) Since it was the first time at a sushi bar the menu was about as clear as mud to us. We finally settled on an appetizer of A-tan puffs (crab rangoon's) which were really really really good!!! did i mention they were good? Then we got our soups i got a hot and sour soup which was good, moose had egg drop soup he said it was the best egg drop soup he's ever had...which now that i think about it I've made it at home and he's never said that(maybe moose wont get better soon... >:) ok back to the review Alex!!! We ordered a "Shogun box" we decided to split.
But I also decided what the heck if we are going to do this big anyways lets do it right!!! So i ordered us some sake, I ordered the Kakutsuru Sayuri Nigori Sake it kinda reminded me of a merlot except again it didn't have that really dry after taste merlot does it is actually really smooth. We got our Shogun box and we were glad we didn't order two orders it was plenty of food! it consisted of a california roll, tuna roll, beef teriyaki shrimp and vegetable tempura and white rice. The food was really good and definitely worth it but again it was expensive! I do recomend it for any time you want to have that special night out but if you want sushi on a regular basis... Heb has some really good sushi, and most of the time its a dollar off.
3 or 4 LARGE tomatoes
Ok so superbowl is this Sunday but at this point I could care less… if we are talking bowls it has to be a bowl of chili or something warm!!! This weather is awesome but I’m freezing (I even had to bring out the feet! >>>) so today I have to put my favorite thing to drink when it’s cold out and it has to be…