Dang, I’ve been slacking. No good excuses…sorry. Today I worked my last catering event, a Rotary lunch. I was up early and had a bowl of cereal (raisin bran, granola, 1/2 banana & cow milk). My caterer ran out of food – yikes! – so that meant no munchies for the staff today. By the time I got home and fixed myself lunch it was almost 3:00pm.
I had a local sesame wheat bun (toasted) half with chive chevre, cuc & red onion, the other half with almond butter and apricot jam (of which I only ate half). I also had half of a monstrous satsuma.
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Tonight we ate down memory lane, as I made “Isla Dinner”. In April 2004, my family traveled to Isla Mujeres, Mexico for Spring Break. One of our fondest (food) memories is eating fresh chicken tacos by our hotel pool. We would go to town and buy the ingredients at each specialty shop – first the tortilleria for a kilo of warm corn tortillas, then next it was to the rotisseria for a roasted chicken. We would make a bowl of mango avocado salsa in our condo and then sit outside and dine al fresco, assembling our simple vacation meal by the aqua water.
Downtown Isla Mujeres, April 2004
Avocado Mango Salsa
- avocado, mango, red onion, jalapeño, lime juice, cilantro & salt -
So fresh & healthy!
Off to get in my trash TV fix. I’m a minimal TV watcher (since we don’t have cable at home), but I do have a few favorite reality shows…and of course I am a Food Network fanatic. The Bachelor is on in T-30…
Hope your week is off on the right foot,
~ Hillary
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ah, island food! SO good :)
i love eating down memory lane from our island trip!
fresh chicken tacos by the sea? sounds like heaven!
such fond memories of food and fun!
quite the 6-pack you got goin’ on!
Love the tacos! Definitely super fresh and healthy! I love attaching good memories to food :)
aw great pictures – so prettyy!! & those tacos sound really delicious.
xoxo
shelley
http://findinghappinessandhealth.wordpress.com
i actually really liked Tina’s pancake…the oats were pretty prominent, but the flavor was awesome!
Those tacos look AMAZING. that is one of my favorite meals of all time, especially when in mexico.
Don’t you think the bachelor was painful last night? The girls are all crazy!!! :) Except Ali – i think she should win…