Sunday, August 23, 2009

Homemade Tacos

Todd was craving some homemade food today, since he ate out all week last week while in San Francisco. So we went grocery shopping today and bought stuff to make four meals this week. First up is carne asada tacos tonight. I made the fresh salsa, consisting of chopped up tomatoes, corn, anaheim chili, garlic, cilantro, lime rind, lime juice, and a dash of salt. Photobucket Photobucket I love chopping up the fresh ingredients and making this stuff. Photobucket And it was something I made up too. The original recipe called for diced avocado, but the one we bought today was still hard as a rock, because we had planned to make this dish later in the week but changed our minds. So I substituted corn for the avocado. Still delicious! Todd was in charge of the meat and the fresh homemade tortillas. Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Fresh homemade tacos! Photobucket I spent a good part of today scrapping. Shutterfly sent me a coupon for a free 8x8 photobook, but I have to use it by this Thursday. Since I just printed out some single 8x8 pages, I don't need to make a book with those anymore. So my big idea is to finally make a vacation album of our trip to the Big Island of Hawaii last November. I have two single pages made before already. So today I made this double-page spread. Photobucket Credits: Template 91 by Yin Designs; Island Adventures & Hand Stamped Alpha by Michelle Coleman; Handy Dandy Dates by Danielle Donaldson; Sandy Toes by Gina Miller; Fonts are SBC Distressed Typewriter & Saginaw.

10 comments:

  1. Mmm, yummy! Your tacos looks so tasty. I'm always on the search for new salsa recieps, and this one says delicious all over.

    Lovely LO! What a nice place to be at.

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  2. oh yum!! I made homemade tortillas last week for the first time. Surprisingly easy and the results were SO much better than store bought ones. I'll have to try carne asada...never made that before!

    And now I'm craving tacos at 6:50 in the morning!!

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  3. what a great morning to read all about your tacos since I ate a big nacho last night. lol!! i just had to say that page is fab!!

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  4. what a great morning to read all about your tacos since I ate a big nacho last night. lol!! i just had to say that page is fab!!

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  5. beautiful Lo!! it's so fun...lucky girl :-))

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  6. LOOKS sooo yummmy!!! LOVE your layout! AMAZING photos and the colors are just so bright and happy!! love it!

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  7. Hello there! I found your blog off of Digi Free, I really enjoy reading and looking at your pictures!
    Great work! I love artsy blog!

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  8. First, ,I LOVE your layout; the embellishing is just perfect, I now need the dandy dates and that photo of the two of you together in the middle and the one at the bottom, LOVE them!
    Second, dang you make me hungry! When you have some time, wanna share the recipe?
    Glad your man made it home, too. :) We had a wonderful reunion today, and we *might* have locked the kids out of the bedroom for a little bit after their excitement wore off...

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  9. fantastic 2-pager!

    And your food pictures are always so great and yummy!!

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  10. After seeing how delish your homemade tacos look, I might have to try my hand and making my own.

    I really love Yin Designs templates. Your page is fantastic!

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