Tostadas

If I had to pick one type of food to eat for the rest of my life, I would pick Mexican food. I love Mexican food! I love the chips, salsa, and cheese dip. I love guacamole, and you all know how much I love margaritas!

Marcela Valladolid is a new chef on Food Network. She cooks Mexican food, and she has a lot of good and easy recipes. Last week I used her recipe to make tostadas, but I did not follow the recipe exactly.

Nick didn't even follow my recipe exactly.

So feel free to change the recipe to your likings.

A tostada is a deep fried tortilla topped with a variety of ingredients. What could be better than that?

Ingredients:
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 large corn tortillas
Salt
1 whole boneless, skinless chicken breast, pounded flat and thin
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon chili powder
Juice of a lime
1 tablespoon olive oil

*ingredients may vary depending on how you make your tostada

*topping ingredients are not included

To make a tostada you need corn tortillas. I think it fries betters.

Begin by putting about an inch of oil (vegetable or peanut) in a cast iron skillet. Any skillet will do. I think cast iron is best.

Fry the tortilla about 3-5 minutes (flip half way through) or until it is lightly browned on both sides.

Drain on paper towels and sprinkle both sides with salt.

Spread the tortilla with refried beans. These are from a can, but if you are really adventurous you can make your own like Marcela Valladolid.

Sprinkle with cheese. I chose colby jack, but other varieties would be good too.

Top with shredded chicken. Our chicken was boiled along with some Fajita Magic, and then shredded.

But options are endless when it comes to flavoring chicken. Most of the ingredients on my list are for the chicken. You will have to check out Marcela's recipe to see how she cooked the chicken. You could also buy and shred a rotisserie chicken. Just do what is easiest and tastiest to you.

Now comes the fun part!

The toppings. I topped mine with lettuce, tomatoe, avocado, cilantoro.

And of course sour cream!

Nick took a different approach. His was topped with lettuce and salsa. He enjoyed it, but his was a little messier than mine.

Now pick it up and take a bite. YUM!

One of the tastiest dishes I have tried in a while. Now all you need is a margarita!

Tostadas

If I had to pick one type of food to eat for the rest of my life, I would pick Mexican food. I love Mexican food! I love the chips, salsa, and cheese dip. I love guacamole, and you all know how much I love margaritas!

Marcela Valladolid is a new chef on Food Network. She cooks Mexican food, and she has a lot of good and easy recipes. Last week I used her recipe to make tostadas, but I did not follow the recipe exactly.

Nick didn't even follow my recipe exactly.

So feel free to change the recipe to your likings.

A tostada is a deep fried tortilla topped with a variety of ingredients. What could be better than that?

Ingredients:
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 large corn tortillas
Salt
1 whole boneless, skinless chicken breast, pounded flat and thin
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon chili powder
Juice of a lime
1 tablespoon olive oil

*ingredients may vary depending on how you make your tostada

*topping ingredients are not included

To make a tostada you need corn tortillas. I think it fries betters.

Begin by putting about an inch of oil (vegetable or peanut) in a cast iron skillet. Any skillet will do. I think cast iron is best.

Fry the tortilla about 3-5 minutes (flip half way through) or until it is lightly browned on both sides.

Drain on paper towels and sprinkle both sides with salt.

Spread the tortilla with refried beans. These are from a can, but if you are really adventurous you can make your own like Marcela Valladolid.

Sprinkle with cheese. I chose colby jack, but other varieties would be good too.

Top with shredded chicken. Our chicken was boiled along with some Fajita Magic, and then shredded.

But options are endless when it comes to flavoring chicken. Most of the ingredients on my list are for the chicken. You will have to check out Marcela's recipe to see how she cooked the chicken. You could also buy and shred a rotisserie chicken. Just do what is easiest and tastiest to you.

Now comes the fun part!

The toppings. I topped mine with lettuce, tomatoe, avocado, cilantoro.

And of course sour cream!

Nick took a different approach. His was topped with lettuce and salsa. He enjoyed it, but his was a little messier than mine.

Now pick it up and take a bite. YUM!

One of the tastiest dishes I have tried in a while. Now all you need is a margarita!

Dove Bites

I know I'm over a week late for this post, but on Labor Day weekend Nick and I traveled to my parents' house in Greenville, MS, along with the Stephens. We had a grand time!I enjoyed watching Toy Story with Stephen Small on our way to Greenville.

I forgot how funny that movie is! Should I see Toy Story 2 and 3?

Nick, Stephen Grande, and my dad had fun dove hunting almost the entire weekend. My mom and I enjoyed watching Stephen Small. My Saturday consisted of playing with Stephen while watching tennis (U.S. Open) and football. I couldn't ask for a more relaxing day.

Saturday night Stephen enjoyed the Auburn game in his Auburn attire.

Isn't this the cutest thing? I wish I had such a spirited outfit! I love the tiger on the shirt.




Later we gave him a shaker. He eventually got the hang of it, and pulled Auburn through to a victory!



Sunday we drove over the brand new bridge to my cousins' lake house in Arkansas. This bridge is dramatically better than the old one. I don't feel like I'm going to fall off the side anymore.

New Bridge

Old Bride (it was only 2 lanes)

The men had several successful hunts. We enjoyed their hunt in the form of dove bites.

Dove Bites:

Take half a piece of bacon, place some cream cheese and a slice of jalapeno pepper between two dove breast, and secure with a toothpick. Our dove was soaked in hoover sauce before the wrapping process. Hoover sauce is a tasty sauce found in MS. Grill the dove bites and enjoy.

They are delicious!!

This is my dad and me preparing the bites. Don't you like my apron and side ponytail?

Hopefully Stephen will cheer Auburn to another victory this weekend!

WAR EAGLE!!