ole' mole'
her requested birthday meal; chicken mole' enchiladas. things often taste better when you've made them yourself from base ingredients (not made yourself from a box, bag or from frozen).
the mole' ingredients. including six variety of chili, 3 squares of chocolate, raisins, cinnamon stick, onions etc.
they wanted to gnaw on cinnamon sticks.
robot boy toasting the sesame seeds, peppercorns, almonds etc.
onions, serranos and tomatoes
grinding the nuts, seeds and spices. the chilis and raisins reconstituted in stock we made.
combining wet and dry ingredients in the osterizer. in goes the chocolate.
dipping a piece of chicken. she liked it, he said it was too spicy.
corn tortillas filled with chicken and the tomato, onion and serrano mix
I rarely use recipes when I cook. but as I've never made mole' before and it is a complexed array of flavors, we used a recipe that we got from bonny doon . we'd recently received a syrah from them that came with the mole recipe as a suggested pairing. the complexity of the wine and the sauce were quite compatible. we browsed the tasting notes as we ate and noted that they actually suggest cellaring the wine 6-12 years. OK, so now we need to order some more and try it again when my daughter is actually old enough to taste it with her enchiladas.
chocolate cake also went well with syrah
his first obligatory food on the face pic
guitar hero for nintendo ds
little girls love webkinz. she said "this is the one I wanted!"
I got a new computer. I have three and I'm trying to get that number down to two (one mac and one PC). my laptop will go to my daughter to replace her laptop and my son gets my old desktop. they love to play star wars legos the complete saga on the ps3 . the way games are today, most people can't complete the game on their own. so... they also sell a book that will walk you through the game. the book often costs as much as the game!
I downloaded the text only pdf version of the walk through (around $7 opposed to $50). now she's really getting somewhere and my son can think of nothing he'd rather do than watch her play. she has a laptop set up in the media room so she can read her instructions as she completes various tasks and challenges. the text only version does help her sharpen her reading and ability to understand and follow instructions. so I should be able to write it off as educational!