Middag idag. Hemgjorda chiliburgare med emmentalerost, salsa och nachos. Så jävla gott.

Sorry I made all of my Bee friends so hungry right before lunch! I thought I’d explain the name….

Hi. My name is Miss Nachos, and I’m a junk food junkie.

I’m not ashamed to admit it. My friends at work stare at what I eat for lunch everyday and are astounded. I’m a little worried about when Scott and I start making little nachos that I’m gonna go more crazy than now and it’s all gonna catch up to me. But for now, I won’t worry about that.

Tonight, in honor of my introduction (and because my own icon is making me hungry), I had myself for dinner. Mr. Nachos actually ordered us buffalo nachos from one of my favorite restaurants the night I found out I was the newest bee and he snapped these…

mmmmm, buffalo nachos

Since becoming Miss Nachos, Scott has been cracking “that’s not-cho-bees” jokes (nacho cheese, not-yo-bees). He said he kept sneaking peeks of weddingbee at work today to keep himself updated which I think is the sweetest thing.

So in honor of the moment, here’s to all the junk food junkie out there….

May the bacon always be plentiful.

May the smell of chocolate always be at your back.

May you never be hungry with cookies in your pantry.

May you always eat nachos and think of me. Hee hee, let’s eat!

EDIT: MFW AGREED TO OUR POST WE NOW OWN WALRUS AND MFW IS GIVEN ICICLE BACK, MFW IS IN THE TOP 10, RPF IS THE BEST MEDIUM ARMY NOW.

First RPF Accomplishment

Miroos’ Comment

Ok look. We obviously have to come to an agreement. Swearing at each other won’t get us anywhere. Neither will arguing about who won. So I suggest that we give you Walrus and we keep Icicle. But at least we got back into the CP Warfare spirit. Nice battles, it was fun – even the arguing. So yeah, I agree with Ads. Let’s see what Sergie says now…

Sergie’s Comment

I agree, this was good battle. But I think since you didn’t give us Yeti with Walrus, but only Walrus, then we will have 1 more thing before we agree. You either declare RPF as the best medium army, and become close allies or fight again and see who earns it, and probably have more arguments again. -.-

If you choose the first option, the RPF will announce you as the 2nd best medium army due to sportsmanship and active, reasonable leaders. We will also present an “close-brother allie treaty” which will make RPF and MFW a brother army, also making RPF help MFW at any battle they wish us to attend. If RPF is in trouble, MFW also could help if they have time. Sounds like a good deal unless you want the same thing over again with Option 2.

Fight The Good Fight,

– Sergie717

Estaba navegando hace unos días en la red buscando tarugada y media, como normalmente hacemos todos en casos de ociosidad y mientras leía el periódico me topé con el siguiente artículo en La Jornada.

Lo transcribo aquí con algunas anotaciones mías en itálicas, pero igual al final de esta entrada les dejo  el link directo a la nota.

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Reuters
Publicado: 20/11/2009 19:51

Los Angeles. Los amantes del cine que llevan palomitas de maíz y un refresco a la sala para disfrutar mientras miran una película podrían estar comiendo el equivalente a tres hamburguesas “cuarto de libra” de McDonald’s con 12 cucharadas de manteca, según indicó un estudio.

Un análisis de laboratorio de los “snack” (botanas o chuchulucos como muchos les decimos) que se venden en los cines de Estados Unidos (No he ido al cine en E.E.U.U. pero supongo que el sistema usado en México es equivalente a eso) reveló que un paquete de palomitas de maíz mediano y un refresco contienen mil 160 calorías y el valor recomendado para tres días -60 gramos- de grasas saturadas. (Esto sería como comer medio kilo de costillas de cerdo bbq, o si no las quieren aderezadas, pues agregarles un postre como un helado)

La investigación fue solicitada por el Centro para la Ciencia y el Interés Público (CSPI). (Esto creo que es algo que necesitamos en México, porque hay muy pocos centros que se enfocan en la integración de los conocimientos científicos para el interés público…digo, uno de los fines de la ciencia siempre es encontrar soluciones a problemas, y eso es de interés publico, pero me parece interesante el enfoque directo de este CSPI).

“¿Quién espera que un “combo” de palomitas y soda (refresco) tenga unas mil 500 calorías y el valor de tres días de grasas de las que dañan el corazón? Eso equivale a las grasas saturadas de un pan de manteca y las calorías de dos de ellos”, señaló la nutricionista del CSPI Jayne Hurley en un comunicado.

La experta dijo que aún compartiendo una porción chica de palomitas entre dos personas eso implicaría consumir el valor de un día de grasas saturadas, que son las que taponan las arterias y están vinculadas con la enfermedad cardíaca.

Hurley indicó que cada cucharada de aceite “mantecoso” (o lo que algunos agregan sería llamado mantequilla extra) que se agrega a las palomitas suma otras 130 calorías, según el estudio publicado en Nutrition Action Healthletter.

“Pedir que se nos sirva esa salsa es como pedir aceite para las papas fritas”, añadió la especialista. (papas aceitosas).

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Entonces pues ya saben a que atenerse cuando vayan al cine y se compren sus palomitas a lo que atenerse… yo normalmente compro Nachos sin queso extra, porque eso nomás hace que se remojen de más y se haga un batidillo, pero si les pongo un montón de rodajas de jalapeño encima para que durante la función me toque una rodaja por cada par de nachos (no soporto tanto los estragos en la boca, el estómago y demás de nuestro afamado Capsicum annuum), eso le da sabor decente a esas cosas fritas llamadas Nachos.

Cuando tengo algo de hambre, pues lo que complementa mis nachos es un jocho (hot dog) bien preparado. O si quieres afrontar la crisis, te recomiendo que entres con una buena torta casera al cine. O comprate unos cuantos dulces en tu tienda favorita (como lunetas, gomitas, etc. Solo que no sean pepitas o pistaches porque es molesto estar pelándolas y luego queda mucha basura). No se te ocurra meter un pollo rostizado, una vez me tocó ver y oler eso en la fila de adelante, porque los olores penetrantes hacen que uno se incomode más la gente de alrededor. Y para bajarte tu torta anticrisis, pues una botellita de agua (de sabor homemade si no te gusta el agua simple). Y no pregunten de donde pueden sacar la botellita, porque hay muchas formas de reusar envases PET (usen envases pequeños porque en algunos cines revisan las bolsas, mochilas, etc).

¿Alguien quiere hacer una recomendación de cómo enfrentar la gordura de las palomitas y al mismo tiempo la crisis? Ahí está el campo de los comentarios para eso…espero sugerencias.

Ah si, por cierto, y para los que se preguntaban que a que hora iba a poner el vínculo al artículo oríginal de La Jornada solo den Click Aquí

As a former cheese hound myself, cheese is one of the things I’ve surprisingly not missed (much to everyone’s skepticism — people definitely think I’m lying when I tell them I don’t miss cheese and it’s the first response that everyone retorts with when they hear I’m vegan, “But how could you live without cheese, I could never do that.”) I don’t know why or how, but I really don’t miss it.

Maybe it’s because my limited experience with vegan cheese has been a little traumatizing. Not only is most “vegetarian” cheese not vegan (many contains lactose, caesin or other dairy by-products) but I’d eat melted wax lips before I taste the brand of vegan cheese that I have tested again. I’m sure there’s better brands out there but for now, I’m passing on the vegan cheese.

So, when I decided to make cheese-less nacho cheese, my tester was anything but enthusiastic. He still retains his cheesehound nature and knows that melted, delicious cheese MAKES nachos what they are. Nevertheless, I forged ahead with some ideas for how to replace the cheese in my nachos (roasted red pepper hummus) and absolutely shocked my tester, who ate the nachos with Gusto!

Ingredients:
(Like the tofu scramble egg knobs, nachos can be made with whatever leftover veggies you have in the fridge. Following is my combination though):

• Nacho chips
• Can of black beans, drained
• Red peppers sliced
• Yellow onions sliced
• Portabello or other mushrooms sliced
• Garlic
• Olive oil
• Chili powder
• Cumin
• Tumeric
• Spinach, thinly chopped
• Tomatoes, chopped
• Roasted red pepper hummus
• Salsa
• Green onions sliced
• Avacado

Saute the garlic in olive oil and add peppers, onions and mushrooms — cooking for a few minutes before coating with a few good shakes of chili powder, cumin and  tiny bit of tumeric. Stir/shake the veggies to ensure the seasoning covers the veggies, cooking for a few minutes until then soften up a bit.

Meanwhile, line a cookie sheet with alumninum foil (makes for a heck of an easy clean up) and spread the nacho chips across the sheet. Spoon out the black beans and cover the chips with a nice even layer before sprinkling your spinach over them. When your veggies are ready, spread a good layer over the spinach and bean chips and spoon salsa on top, adding the chopped green onions, tomatoes, too. Before adding the avacado, spoon the secret cheese-replacer ingredient — the roasted red pepper hummus — on top before popping in the oven.

Bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes, you’re really just looking to heat everything up. If the chips start to burn or the spinach seems to singe, you’re ready to rock.

Hi

Browse this site using the links above. We will be having a war when we get to 1000 views. To reach that traget you are going to need to tell all your friends.

Waddle On

Eddersm

Since Fiasco ruined our first invasion, we will make them suffer.. Now we will fight and not leave the battle. Pack your bags boys.

RE-INVASION OF ICICLE

When: Saturday, November 21, 2009

Where: Icicle, Snow Forts

Chat: xat.com/TehRPF

Times:

4:40 pm PST

5:40 pm MST

6:40 pm CST

7:40 pm EST

COMMENT IF YOU THINK YOU CAN MAKE IT!

Fight The Good Fight,

- Sergie717

EDIT:

EDIT:

Allright we have a lot of stuff to cover, let’s get started..

Fiasco121’s Forever Banned Status: Now Active

I do not know why in the world did Fiasco change our chat’s pass, and ran away to MFW. That is treason, probably one of the worst things you could do in the army.. their was a fair amount of people on RPF chat. There was friend’s of Fiasco, and people who didn’t know him. I told RPF the reason of why he should be banned forever from RPF. 1) He changed xat password. 2) He ran off to MFW. 3) He showed one of the worst leadership moves ever, retreating. 100% of the RPF chat voted on “Yes”. Fiasco, you are now officially fired from RPF permenatly. Have a nice life.

RPF vs. MFW Battle

I am accepting defeat from the Invasion of Icicle, but don’t worry MFW I’m not stoping yet. We lost due to the fact that I couldn’t make it to the battle so my troops over-reacted with Fiasco leading and everyone left, resulting in a epic fail for RPF. Yes, we failed. Thank you Fiasco.

Fight The Good Fight, Not Like Fiasco,

- Sergie717

Bully for you for reading the endnotes!  I’ll admit I was lazy and didn’t flip to the end to get the cultural context of that particular reference.  Had you not reported thusly I’d be continuing to picture Swann with a mix between and ducktail and a pompadour.  Now I’ll imagine him as Billy Ray Cyrus circa 1992 in his “Achy Breaky Heart” days:

My discovery of the day was finding out that nachos and Proust just don’t mix.  I took my copy of Swann’s with me to the local Qdoba during my noon lunch break–thinking I’d read a couple of pages while enjoying some delicious three-cheese nachos.

The way I usually eat and read is to take a bite, read a sentence while I chew.  Take another bite, read another sentence–before you know it my belly is full and I’ve finished five more pages!

Well today I took a bite and tried to read a sentence…but it was so long!  By about the third clause of the sentence the first cheesey chip got eaten and I got hungry…so I thought I’d break protocol and take a break mid-sentence for another delectable tortilla.  Then when I went back Proust I couldn’t find my spot–so it was back to the beginning. But by that point I’d finished the second chip.

It didn’t take long to realize that this would be a Sisyphusian task.  So I put Proust away and listened to the end of Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me (Oh how I love topical political satire!)

But I did read a little bit more…shortly after my last post (like another three pages after!) the cookies finally made their appearance so I was able to sleep better.  Sleep better until I got to this quote…”While my aunt was conferring thus with Francoise, I was going to Mass with my parents.”

Hold it right there Nameless Narrator!  I’m sure you think this is harmless (well I’m not sure, but it works better for my argument)…but I say nay!  Nay!   How can Nameless Narrator report the banal back and forth of Francoise and his aunty when he’s away at church? (Another topic–did the description of her head confuse you–”her sad, pale, dull forehead, on which, at this morning hour, she had not yet arranged her false hair, and where the bones showed through like the points of a crown of thorns or the beads of a rosary”–I mean the phrenologist inside of me (inside all of us) is intrigued…but really–where’s the footnote on that one?).

Methinks this was made up.

Now I know it’s a novel so it’s all actually made up, but there has to be a level of accountability in this fictional world and right now I’m not seeing it.  I don’t know if I even still believe that Nameless Narrator even ever ate a cookie.

What is truth?

Jon

P.S.  On a completely non-Proustian note I think everyone should listen to the Slate Audio Bookclub Podcast…I just rocked out the Raymond Carver edition the other day and it was quite scintillating.  It’s my new favorite podcast (But I still love you too, Andrew Marr’s Start of the Week!) and I want to share it with the world!

Hello my fellow Red Bulls we have been doing really good this week. We beat the PDW this week . So guys I give you all promts great job . The week isent over yet though I want to invade Rainbow server. I do no think anyone owns it yet so I want us to own our first server to our selves. We might have a little trouble with the Taco army or the PDW army . They are our rival armys but good thing we are allies with Nachos army and the IW army. so we will win this server with no trouble.

WHEN : november 20, 2009

Where : Rainbow Snow Forts

Time  : 6:00 EST if u live anywhere else ask ur parents what time it will be.

Leaders at the invation : Ballion54  (leader and founder)

Red bull Air force will be there to

Leader of air force is (lizzy23232) aka co- leader

so get ready red bull army to win!!!!!!!!!!!

comment if u can make it!

Karakoran: Approved

The Mysterious Freedom Warriors have 2 servers that belong to the old U.S.R.P.F. (Yeti and Walrus). I want to put back everything that the past leaders lost, and glue it back on our nation page. So MFW, we are at war until you give us Yeti and Walrus. We will be invading their capital tommorrow, Icicle. This is a very important battle, so if you think you deserve a promotion I recommend attending the invasion. If MFW bring allies, that means we can bring our allies.. I don’t think we want ACP to be involved in this, right?

INVASION OF ICICLE

When: Friday, November 20, 2009

Where: Icicle, Snow Forts

Chat: RPF CHAT

Times:

3:40 pm PST

4:40 pm MST

5:40 pm CST

6:40 pm EST

COMMENT IF YOU CAN MAKE IT!

Fight The Good Fight,

- Sergie717

Ninja: Maxwell is accusing me now i want him fired he is being a a$$ fire him now!

Uhm wow guys you let in freaking maxwell! You know he is the one that destroyed romans right? And if u did whos idea was it to let him in! My god guys i would fire him before he hacks you and take over. -_-

Crazy: I pretty much agree there.

Sergie717: How do you know that he is a hacker? Maybe he is one of those noobs who get promoted too much, and get admined. I don’t see Max as a threat, because I know from his past that he is not fit for leader. Max, you are staying in RPF, no promotions until you prove yourself worthy. Same goes for the rest of the lower ranked people. Promotion is a privilege, not a hobby.

Cars, computers, gadgets, things around the house, and it goes on. I can’t have things the way they come; they need to be modified. They need to be made better in some way. Better than they were meant to be. Not that there was anything wrong with them, I would just rather not use them as they come.

Obviously, food gets modded too. Cases in point:

Exhibit A: Suuped up Mac-n-Cheese with 3-cheeses, black forest ham, bread crumbs, and a bechamel creme sauce. Hallelujah.

Exhibit B: Suuped up brownies made from Duncan Hines brownies, topped with melted marshmallow, topped with rice crispies, topped with peanut butter and melted chocolate.

Exhibit C: Suuped up nachos. It was a whole baking sheet. I'll let the picture speak for itself.

Exhibit D: Suuped up lasagna made with spinach, apple sausage, and ricotta cheese.

Well, you guys didn’t show up for the Nacho battle, seriously, not even 1 person. But that’s allright, all I care about is that our chat is in good shape that means that if the chat is in good shape then CP will be in good shape.

UMA & RPF Conflict

UMA wanted to take over Tuxedo on Thursday, but Crazyboy86 cancelled it because he is a good friend of mine and why in the world would they want to take over Tuxedo? Just a reminder for you UMA’ians, ACP and RPF share Tuxedo ever since Oberst533 and Boomer20 were RPF leaders. Harv is also a server whore who had a grudge against Commando717 the day he joined CP Armies.

This picture is extremely suspicious, Rofl;

Nachos’ Corrupt Leadership

Basically, ACP & IW & UMA owned the Nachos today. Probably while the Nachos were fighting their a**es off at their servers, AkABob22 was playing Left For Dead 2.

Active Count

Basically comment with your CP rank and you’re username in a comment on this post. Please don’t comment twice. Whoever does not comment until tommorrow midnight is SUSPENDED FOR INACTIVITY.

Rise Against – Savior

Song Dedicated To Emperer Josh & Sergie717 for Bringing The RPF Back

Fight The Good Fight,

– Sergie717

Tarde cálida para tomar algo.. Surge la idea de unas margaritas, el problema es dónde conseguir algún lugar decente que las prepare a las 19hs. Pasamos por Palermo y vimos que la “Fábrica del Taco” -Gorriti 5061- estaba abierta (diría Jorge Rial: local que pertenece a  Robertino, hijo de “Pata” Villanueva y el “Conejo” Tarantini…). Un lugar algo bizarro, con objetos mexicanos de todo tipo por doquier, pero con una gastronomía típica de una auténtica taquería mexicana.
Nos ubicamos en unas banquetas bajas dentro del local, y preguntamos por el bar del patio trasero, ya que habíamos estado una vez allí, y se arma un lindo ambiente en ese sector, compuesto por barra propia y mesitas al aire libre.
Lamentablemente había que esperar hasta las 20hs para que se habilitara esa parte. Mismo horario de espera para las margaritas y demás tragos. Sólo había disponible cerveza.
Fuimos con 2 porrones de Heineken (la otra opción disponible era Corona), y un snack “pico de gallo” (torre compuesta por cebolla, tomate y cilantro, todo en brunoise, mas nachos).
Nos zarpamos con la salsa picante, así que tuvimos que ir en busca de algo más que “apague el fuego”, por lo cual pedimos el viejo y conocido guacamole.
Entre charla y charla, mensajeamos a la Dra. Santos, quien se encontraba en el club a punto de realizar trabajo físico. Pidió que la banquemos hasta las 21hs, horario en el cual, se uniría al grupete en busca de alguna nueva experiencia gastronómica…

Breve discusión de por medio (porque la promo de 3×2 Heineken que nos dijo la primer mesera, era en otro horario), ya que habíamos pedido 4 porrones y esperábamos los 2 gratis de la promo (que al final nos terminaron bonificando), terminamos pagando por la “merienda”:

- Pico de Gallo…… $13
- Promo Heineken 3×2…… $18
- Guacamole…… $19
- Heineken x 2 ($9 c/u)…… $18

TOTAL $68

Pero la noche recién comenzaba, ya que las espadistas nos esperaban en la puerta de GEBA, para salir en busca de una nueva noche “en boca”…

Yes, I heard ACP and IW are going on massive war against the all mighty Nachos, we will join on ACP and IW’s side until further notice. I can surely tell you that were sticking with ACP and IW, let’s do this! EVERYONE IN RPF COME TO THIS BATTLE.

WAR

When: Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Where: White House, Snow Forts

Chat: RPF Chat

Times:

3:30 pm PST

4:30 pm MST

5:30 pm CST

6:30 pm EST

11:30 pm U.K.

We need all soldiers to attend, this is going to be a big war!  Do your best to get there 30 minutes early for recruiting!

Taken off the ACP site,

I have been watching the Nacho site for weeks now and have not been able to find a single post of much relevance to the army.  Between Jayson not posting at all and Aka’s posts of some random video and message saying “Comment” the Nachos have fallen a great deal.  Not to mention the hostility Aka in particular has shown ACP in the past.  Some of us think it’s time for a change.

Aka and Jayson have been in armies longer than most of our penguins have even existed.  There is no denying what they have accomplished, but at the same time, it has become apparent neither care enough anymore to be effective leaders of the Nachos.  For this reason, Icey and I have been called in to dispose of them.

ACP and IW will be declaring unrelenting war on the Nachos until Aka and Jayson are out of power.  The first such event will take place this Wednesday.  ACP and IW will invade two separate servers simultaneously, taking out Shiver and White House.  Pack your bags soldiers, we’re off to war.

COMMENT IF YOU CAN MAKE IT!

Fight The Good Fight,

- Sergie717

P.S.: Check out our new recruits!

Yeah, RPF is doing actually really good. Sergie & Josh decided to unite as brothers and take control over the RPF and it’s survivors. The RPF needs recruits, so go ahead and join at the “Join” page right now.. seriously.. The RPF has been a major army, look at us now, just another small army getting stepped on by other armies such as the allmighty ACP. Even though I believe that Commando717 was our source of activeness due to his humor and awesome leadership. *Sigh*, yes we all miss the old days when you would get insulted by Commando717 and then have a big laugh. We can all do that though, we just need “everyone” to help us rebuild. Everyone is allowed to join, except Oagalthorp. I got basketball practice so I won’t be online on chats from 3:00pm – 5:00pm.. that’s PST. I would also like people to start working harder, and recruit as much as you can. I know recruiting is a boring thing.. seriously.. We all hate CP, but I don’t want RPF to go out like that. We just all need to unite.. Cooperation is our key right now. I am scheduling a Recruitment Session, hopefully more than 3 people can show up; -.-

Invasion of Summit

When - November 18, 2009

Time - 3:00 pm PST, 4:00 pm MST, 5:00 pm CST, 6:00 pm EST, 11:00 pm U.K.

Server - Summit

Reason -

Fight The Good Fight,

– Sergie717

EPISODE 44

Hey you, welcome back to the weekly riot of a conversation, The Carolyn and Joe Show. This week we welcome back to the studio that always moves, Carolyn, James and Joe! This week on the show, Joe made a point to reveal that someone’s birthday is very very soon, whose could it be? The history of the prank calls that James and Danny send each other that are very not safe for work, we then relive James’s HAUNTED Halloween night and how that ties into our favorite black sitcoms. Happy Birthday.

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Last night, in honor of NFL sunday, I made nachos for dinner.  I got the idea to make nachos specifically for dinner from a co-worker, Tom Wailgum, who once told me that he and his wife Karin were splurging on home-made nachos for dinner one Friday night.  (I get the sense that Tom and Karin generally eat pretty healthy.)

Oddly, I never considered making my own nachos–let alone for dinner–before Tom mentioned it.  It’s odd because I love football food, and come Sunday, when I have time, I like to put out a spread for Eric and I (and any random person who happens to stop by) to graze on while our beloved New England Patriots kick butt.  Past spreads have featured steak and blue cheese paninis with caramelized onions, venison Philly cheese steaks, hot clam dip and crackers, potato skins, and porcini mushroom and bacon dip.  

I wound up making the nachos for dinner Saturday night, too.  I had been planning to serve for dinner the carrot ginger soup I had made Saturday afternoon, but my craving for nachos was too big to put off for another day.  After eating nachos two nights in a row, my carving has been sufficiently sated. 

Here’s how I made my nachos:

1. Brown one pound of ground beef in a skillet.  When just cooked, add an envelope of taco seasoning mix and two-thirds of a cup of water and simmer until water mixture has evaporated.

2. Meanwhile, spread a bunch of tortilla chips evenly out on a round pizza pan.  Sprinkled with cooked meat, shredded cheddar cheese and anything else you wish to add, such as chopped jalapeno peppers or sliced olives.  

3. Adjust oven rack to middle of oven and heat broiler.  Broil nachos on middle rack for two minutes.  Serve with sour cream, salsa and guacamole.

I have a little bit of ground been leftover from the nachos.  I’m going to use it in a “nacho” baked potato later this week: I’ll bake the potato and top it with the leftover ground beef, cheddar cheese (or better yet, salsa con queso!), salsa and sour cream.  Damn.  I can’t wait for later this week!

To shift away from food for a second, Friday night we headed down to Pilsen on the Lower West Side of Chicago for an art show.  It was a pretty unique experience- many galleries were opened up to display artwork, as well as artist studios, apartments, and lofts.  Food and drink were offered as well.  There was even a DJ at one place.

From there we walked west towards a Mexican restaurant called “Nuevo Leon” (East Pilsen is known for its artists, as you head west there is more of a Mexican/Latino culture).  The restaurant was cheap, authentic, and delicious (and a BYOB establishment, which I like).  I got nachos to start, which were basically individual chips loaded with refried beans, ground beef, melted cheese, sour cream and guacamole.  For an entree I got chicken enchiladas with mole sauce; also incredible.  The price: a grand total of $8.  Pretty good deal.  I forgot to take a picture of the food, but I added a picture of the remnants, and a mural inside the restaurant.  After that we headed up to Lincoln Park to a bar called Rocks.  Cool place, would go back again.  The El ride back up north wasn’t too pleasant, as usual, but all in all, good food, good entertainment, and good company.

Oh and also, the Edzo’s tally: up to 2 now (garlic fries- good choice).

Gastronomía incomparable desde los
hoteles de Mazatlán

Hey everyone! How are things going?
Things are hectic and disorganized as usual but I find every moment amusing even those that are stressful. Such is the life of a college student taking 18 credits, and about to take 19 in her next semester. Thursday is my day to register and there is something satisfying about signing up for your last semester of undergraduate program. I think it’s the fact that the end is near and well earned that makes it feel so good. Here is my planned schedule:

Ecology with Lab (3cr)
General Microbiology with Lab (4cr)
Endocrinology (3cr)
Directed Research working with Arabidopsis thaliana and identifying possible suppressor genes (3cr)
Japanese Theater (3cr)
Samurai Slashers: A Look at Japanese Period Film (3cr)

The last two are for my Asian Languages and Literature minor. I thought that there would be something more exciting to take relating to Japanese but alas this semester sucks for classes. I’m sure I will do fine in those classes. I just have to make sure I check with my adviser to ensure that I GET my minor. Otherwise there will be a verrrrrry pissed azn.
I definitely expect to be unbelievably busy, stressed, and insane next semester. I mean… I’m taking 3 science courses, with directed research (in which I write a 10-14 page paper, of course in the format of a scientific article) and two extra cultural classes! I’m definitely insane. Definitely. My life rocks.

In other random news, there is apparently massive drama going on at my work at Lane Bryant. I was asked to hang out and listen to my coworkers after work on Sunday night and was even treated to some nachos by my friend Liz. We all generally complained about certain arrogant attitudes expressed by certain people and other screwed up things. I expressed my worries about the store being reduced in size this coming spring and who would be laid off. While we were discussing all this we had to listen to awful karaoke (apparently Canteena now has karaoke Sunday nights). AND we kept having these weird guys going by staring at us with a “wtf are you doing in here?” look on their faces. It was disturbing the girls and I just laughed. We also had a crappy waitress. It was awful. She took our order, messed it up, didn’t deliver the food and didn’t give us silverware. So here we were staring at our food without any utensils. Thank god nachos only requires hands, but the others couldn’t really use their hands nor wanted to. She had an attitude too; the epitome of awful customer service. We left a $1 tip per bill.

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This ain’t your ordinary bean dip. It’s about a million times better.

This quick dinner came about after an extremely long weekend when I realized it was Sunday night and I still hadn’t made it to the grocery store.

After a quick scan of the cabinet and fridge, I found a recipe in Taste of Home’s Dinner on a Dime that I decided I could modify to suit the contents of my poorly-stocked kitchen. The end result was wowing, and I knew I had to jot this new meal down before I forgot what I’d done!

Brown meat and onions together.

Ranch seasoning packet from ALDI.

Brown 1 lb. ground beef (or ground beef & TVP mixture) over medium heat in large skillet with a slivered yellow onion. Once meat is thoroughly cooked, drain if necessary and add contents of a 1-ounce ranch seasoning packet. Stir well.

Drain a 15-ounce can of whole kernel corn and add to skillet. Pour in a 16-ounce can (undrained!) of baked beans, any variety.

Next, make three small mounds of condiment in skillet–about 1/3 cup barbecue sauce, about 1/4 cup ketchup, and about 1 tablespoon spicy mustard.

Mix condiments and canned ingredients into the meat.

Stir all mounds together until mixture is evenly coated. Allow to heat thoroughly (about 5-10 minutes) on stovetop. Once heat has returned to skillet,

Gradually stir in shredded cheese.

gradually sprinkle in 2 cups of any shredded Mexican cheese blend (Colby, Jack, Cheddar, whatever…), stirring often between additions.

Once all cheese has melted and blended into the mixture, turn off heat and serve immediately. This can be eaten with a fork or on top of tortilla chips.

I topped mine with green onions, but after tasting it, I REALLY wished I had diced a fresh tomato over the top of it, which would have been awesome. Seriously, buy a

This is one "accidental" recipe I can't wait to make again!

 tomato and do this. It will be wonderful.