Tacos in the summertime

Date: 2011.07.11 | Category: Uncategorized | Tags:

It’s so hot in St. Louis right now that the air is hotter than my own breath.  I told a friend today, “I’m basically a mobile air-conditioner for the earth.”

It’s gross. 

Anyway, I decided to make chicken tacos tonight.  Mark loves Mexican foods.  After perusing a few different recipes, I felt pretty confident I could take this on.

I chopped veggies, avocado, and put spoons in the condiments.  I roasted a poblano pepper on an open flame.  Meanwhile, I chopped chicken into bite-sized pieces and cooked it in a skillet with olive oil, chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper.  Once the chicken was nearly done, I threw the chopped poblano in.

My lovely husband insists on taking wonky pics

All that was left to do was heat up some tortillas in a pan and start throwing condiments on.

I chopped up avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, put out cheese, pico de gallo … all the necessities!

Mark said I was a little heavy-handed on the ingredients – that I made a chicken burrito.  What can I say, my inner fat kid was serving dinner.  And my inner fat kid was quite pleased at the end of my filling meal.  I had put out chips for a side but I only  had room for a few.

In other news, I received my running medal rack.

Isn’t it cute?

I got it at etsy.com, and it was made by prettylovelypainting.  I like its simplicity and uniqueness.  It is also $10-20 cheaper than other medal display racks and can be personalized, but I chose not to go that route. 

I chose to hang it right by my desk in our home office.  Of note, it is quite full and I’ll be out of hooks (there are 13) by the end of this year!  Whatever will I do….

* I bought this rack with my own hard-earned money and was not compensated to review it.  *

In other running news, I updated my CHASING page (about my races) and I have registered for half marathons in October and November.  If all goes well, I will have ran 10 half marathons, and 4 this year!