yum yum yum yum yum, delicioso!

Those of you who are (un)fortunate enough to get to watch Dora will surely appreciate my little joke there. The rest of you, well, count yourselves lucky. The man and I made a super meal tonight, inspired by a show on Food network last night. Tyler's Ultimate, that guy rules. He does not care a whit for whether his recipes are diet friendly, he uses butter, oil, sugar, all of the above. But man, it's good.

We made BBQ chicken and the spicy coleslaw that's linked at the bottom of the page. We did not make the cornbread, but it looked really good too. How can you not love a guy who cooks bacon to crumble and put in his cornbread, and then rather than draining / wasting that grease, leaves the whole mess of it in there and just pours the batter right on top and bakes it in the pan in the oven. Why grease a pan? Anyway. It was really good. I recommend (as did other people who reviewed the bbq chicken) to let the sauce sit (on low, no bubbling needed) for more than 20 minutes; ours probably sat for almost an hour and then we just left it on the burner with the heat off until we ate it. It just kept getting better. Also, in his book, he puts 1C of peach preserves (jam) in it, which we were kind of like, hmm, but we doubled the recipe, bottled half and then put the jam in half, and it wasn't peachy at all, but quite good, just a bit sweeter. The coleslaw is a bit spicy, (smoked, dried jalapeno peppers will do that) so if you're like me and are a medium salsa, moderately spicy (get it? that's where the name comes from..) kind of gal, definitely don't put more than is called for, and perhaps even a bit less. We also cheated, as he did on the show, and used the pre-shredded coleslaw mix.

That's my public service for today. Go make some stuff. Makes a few dishes, but it's worth it. It also saved me from having to watch football all day, which was nice. Also we made lots, so I get lunch for 2 days, the man gets it for one. He has restaurants and stuff nearby, so I get dibs on leftovers. Plus, I'm growing a person, so that helps in the argument. Things are going well in that area, as far as I can tell. There's definitely a baby in there, definitely likes to deliver swift kicks to the lower extremities and occasionally park a foot or something in my ribcage. Definitely in like 3 months we'll be awfully close to meeting her, if we haven't already. I'm hoping very much to not go over, but also to get to work until my planned last day of April 4. That early off bedrest thing last time was lame.

I have pants to hem, and pictures to download, so I'm out of here.