I, naturally, immediately started thinking about what fun thing to make for dinner! I decided to make the beer-marinated chicken tacos that I'd seen earlier this week. Now, I don't normally have dark Mexican beer lying around the house, so I had to run to the store for some of that, as well as the chicken thighs (and, as you might be able to relate to, I ended up coming away with like 15 items, most of which were completely reasonable purchases, like the gallon of milk, or the ingredients for the appetizer and dessert I also decided to make... but not all of them, shhh...).
Anyway, here's dinner...
We started out with this plate of fabulousness, which, if you can't tell, is bacon-wrapped jalapeno bites.
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While HH did the assembly on these, I made tortillas (my dinner recipe called for corn tortillas, but I decided to make flour ones. Will definitely try with corn again sometime).
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The chicken is definitely the highlight of the dish. The marinade is super-tasty (though I'd prob marinade for a bit longer in the future). Two other notes... First, I'd definitely encourage you to use chicken thighs as the recipe says; it makes for a much richer meat, and the fatty content helps the meat to sort of carmelize and form a crust while cooking. Secondly, I grilled these at around 400, which is higher than you're supposed to cook chicken generally, but I wanted it to char a little bit and form that aforementioned crust. I think it was perfect :)
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Of course, I couldn't resist adding a little roughage! Just some spring greens tossed with a dressing made of lime juice, garlic, olive oil, cilantro and some green onion.
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This isn't dessert, but it may as well be! I was craving a Starbucks caramel frapp the other day but didn't want to pay $3.95 for one, so I googled the recipe -- super simple! We actually had these for breakfast today with our french toast (I had raspberry syrup made with raspberries I had JUST picked from our yard!). Dessert tonight will be (if I get around to it) a pseudo-ice cream made by blending together frozen strawberries, half-n-half and sugar, then re-freezing till it's more or less solid. In the meantime, I present to you the 98% off caramel frappuccino!
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2 comments:
YUM.
And I thought HH didn't like cream cheese?
He apparently doesn't mind it in combination with other things. Like two of his favorite foods, bacon and jalapenos!
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