A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads. This week's meal planning came very easily thanks to a surplus of avocados, I finally found a TV show that meets the threshold of "good enough to keep watching", and I had a 😻😻😻 read.
Eats
As you know from last week's post, I made jello shots for our family July 4th party. That was actually plan B. Plan A was to make guac, so I had gotten six avocados only to have them not ripen in time for the party. That quantity is perfect for a big bowl of party guac, but it's a bit of a tall order for a family of four to eat over a few nights.
However, we did it. Here's how we used up our stash at the rate of two avocados per night:
Sunday: "Ultimate Chicken Sandwiches" which is my homemade version of a sandwich that Hubs likes to get at one of our favorite restaurants: Costco breaded chicken patty, cheese, avocado, lettuce, tomato, onion, and avocado.
Monday: salmon bowls, which are a ridiculously simplified version of this recipe. I make the dressing as written except without the wasabi, and then I pile on rile, air fried salmon, Costco frozen stir fry veggies, and avocado.
Tuesday: my version of crunch wraps, discussed here. This time I made a very simple nacho sauce, and I think it's worth doing if you have a few extra minutes, and just fine to substitute a sprinkle of cheese if you don't.
But wait, there's more! We had a Water in the Basement Issue that led to Hubs and me spending most of the weekend on cleanup duty, which led to me being As Hungry As a Bear on Saturday night. I know the geography is all over the place with this one, but last fall when I went to West Virginia I had something called a California burrito and that was exactly what I was in the mood for. It's just a steak burrito with potatoes and guac, but I wanted a recipe for inspo. Google took me to the most ridiculous YouTube video ever. The video is 15 minutes long, and makes it seem like it only takes that long to marinate and grill steak, make french fries from scratch, and of course you need a torch to melt the cheese on your burrito.
Once I set aside all of the complicated steps, I saw the framework to get the burrito that I craving without all of the work. Here is my version, with many cut corners.
- I bought shaved steak that I quickly cooked on the stove and seasoned with taco seasoning.
- Monterrey jack cheese, not melted with a torch.
- The white sauce as shown in the video - dude I like garlic but three cloves is way too much, so I will step it down to one next time.
- The green sauce as shown in the video.
- I didn't bother to watch the section of the video where they made guac since I have a go-to guac recipe. Specifically I just mash avocados with a little onion powder and salt. BTW this was long after our avocado stash was gone, so if the grocery store had not had ripe avocados I would have skipped this whole project.
- My stash of breakfast potatoes from the freezer in place of the french fries. I have no objection to french fries in a burrito but the one that I had in WV had potatoes so that's what I wanted.
- And obviously once I had everything wrapped up into a burrito I toasted the tortillas in a skillet for a little extra oomph.
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