The award-winning dinner I'm referring to is (drum roll please)...
FISH TACOS
The original idea and inspiration comes from Brian and Melanie (Greg's brother and sister-in-law), but I'm pretty sure I remember theirs having a bit more of a gourmet touch. Here is what our version has evolved into:
FISH TACOS
1 box of inexpensive fish sticks (of course, you can feel free to get expensive ones if you'd like, but the point is: fish sticks - it's all about the crunch). Make sure there are enough for about three per taco.
flour tortillas
small grape tomatoes, cut in half or quarters
coleslaw (we buy the shreds and use T. Marzetti's original slaw dressing)
Colby jack cheese, shredded
fresh cilantro
chipotle Tabasco sauce - it's awesome and on the mild side
Throw everything inside the tortillas and enjoy! Make sure you heat the fish sticks according to package directions first - forgot to mention that part.
O.K., on to exterminators...
When we first moved here to Hesston, we had the disturbing experience of finding and killing about 11 yucky, scary, brown spiders a day. They were everywhere inside our new house, and we were a little creeped out about the potential of them being brown recluse spiders. We did some online checking and became even more panicky as we read "Brown recluse spiders, otherwise known as common Kansas house spiders,..." right there on the Internet. Yikes!
That started our first ever relationship with AN EXTERMINATOR. This man is very nice, and we are so thankful that he comes every three months to rid our house of anything that might attract brown recluse spiders. You can't actually kill them very effectively, but the point is to get their prey. We found out that we had a "hatch" of spiders that had been eggs in our basement as our house was being built. The good news is that they were harmless wolf spiders and not brown recluse spiders, but they're still icky.
All that to say, even though our exterminator is a very nice man, I REALLY REALLY don't like it when he comes to our house. Actually, I wouldn't mind a bit, as long as I was NEVER here when he came. As long as this man never ever put my face together with my house, I would be just fine with him coming over every three months. The problem is that he usually calls the day before to make sure someone can let him in, and then he comes in and chats in a very friendly way while he is opening every deep dark secret door of my house.
It is so terribly invasive, I always find myself explaining why certain closets are the way they are and why my STORAGE ROOM is what it is with some lame "in the process of organizing excuse" only to find myself caught off guard with the next visit and everything pretty much the way it was three months before. I then feel like a failure the entire rest of the day. The last couple of times, I have actually tried to make sure Greg would have to be the one to let him in because we're running errands or something, just to preserve my emotional health.
Anyway, he came yesterday. Greg let him in; we were at violin lessons.
2 comments:
Oh Kelly, this post gives me the heebie jeebies! We had the same problem when we moved to our house and we had to have an exterminator come out as well. Just today I killed a wolf spider (while screaming my head off) in our bathroom and bent my thumb nail back in the process. I am thinking we need to give our friendly exterminator a call also.
I've had your version of fish tacos & liked them very much. My current favorite is at Las Palapas where you get a nicely seasoned tilapia fillet hot off the grill wrapped in a freshly made hot soft corn tortilla with cilantro and anything else you want to dress it up with. I wouldn't even try to replicate this one at home, especially the yummy corn tortilla.
By the way,I love my "green" exterminator and not just because I'm especially "envirnonmentally correct." The first time they come they treat inside, but after that they do everything outside to maintain the "barrier" that keeps the bugs from reinfesting the house. In other words, they only come inside and get into your closets and other embarrassing areas if you ask them to!
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