Saturday, Sarah and Mallory came to my house to have drinks, food and to catch up. The three of us have been friends for many years now and many years to come. True friends are far and few between and I am glad to have these ladies in my life. We decided to stay in for the night. We decided we would each contribute something for dinner: Mallory with jalapenos poppers, Sarah with the bar nachos, and myself with carne tacos with lime-sour cream sauce. Instead of the traditional tequila to go with our mexi-style dinner we decided the level we wanted to be at was a whiskey level. We started the night with the bar nachos and it was a basic nacho bake. In this dish I would throw whatever you like in the nacho dish. I like white corn chips, sour cream, beens, hamburger, and Sarah mixed her salsa with the nacho cheese which was pretty damn good too. She than topped it with chopped onion and jalapeno.We baked the ingredients at 350 until they were heated which took about 10 minutes. You can get as creative as you want with this one, really its whatever you prefer. My husband just informed me we will be having this dish more frequently, it really was good.
I made the basic carne taco. Corn tortillas, 1LB of carne meat, lettuce, sour cream, cilantro, feta, 1 lime, chopped tomatoes or pico. I season the meat with cumin, paprika, chili powder and a basic mexi spice. I than will fry the torts up when ready to serve. The sour cream sauce is the best and I usually use it on shrimp tacos but it goes with almost anything. I take about 1 cup of sour cream and half squeezed lime and about two table spoons of chopped cilantro. I blend it in my blender for about 30 seconds and its perfect. The picture I have is shrimp but I basically use the same ingredients, minus the avocado (which would be delicious too). You than build your taco how ever you like.
I made the basic carne taco. Corn tortillas, 1LB of carne meat, lettuce, sour cream, cilantro, feta, 1 lime, chopped tomatoes or pico. I season the meat with cumin, paprika, chili powder and a basic mexi spice. I than will fry the torts up when ready to serve. The sour cream sauce is the best and I usually use it on shrimp tacos but it goes with almost anything. I take about 1 cup of sour cream and half squeezed lime and about two table spoons of chopped cilantro. I blend it in my blender for about 30 seconds and its perfect. The picture I have is shrimp but I basically use the same ingredients, minus the avocado (which would be delicious too). You than build your taco how ever you like.
To really set the the night right Mallory made bacon-wrapped jalapeno poppers. She hallowed out jalapenos and stuffed cream cheese inside. She then wrapped them in bacon and baked them for about 30 to 40 minutes. Mallory suggested next time we fry the bacon for a few minutes before baking them which would make the bacon crispier and it wouldn't take so long.
Notice she made a slit down the middle of them to make it easier to get the cream cheese in. We forgot toothpicks but they worked out fine.
It was a great night. I love that we all put forth something and it was great. Any time we have our "girls night" one thing that is sure is that we eat well. I always enjoy good company and it was great holiday weekend. Thanks ladies.
No comments:
Post a Comment