Pass The Sushi!

Fam­ily means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

How to watch your num­bers drop like a lead bal­loon — don’t update in 4 days.

Sorry, I got lost dur­ing an incred­i­ble spelunk­ing trip with my Great Uncle Ernie who is an avid out­doors man. It resulted in a 3 day lack of tech­nol­ogy or indoor plumb­ing and boy, was it hot. Uncle Ernie really still has it in him too — I mean 74 and hop­ping on the back of that griz­zly to take back our one Cole­man burner — amaz­ing. Not sure that the bear could have fig­ured out how to use it any­way.  Where I don’t sug­gest get­ting lost in the wilder­ness for days on end, I do rec­om­mend you to never leave home with out a good old fash­ioned com­pass, a few bot­tles of fresh water and a roll of duct tape. Who knows when you may need it.

Need­less to say — tonight’s din­ner was just some of my favorite com­fort food.

Tacos -

Mr. Ortega, will you marry me?

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 1 red pep­per, chopped
• 2 hand­fuls of baby spinach, chopped
• 1 packet Ortega Taco Seasoning
• 1 packet Ortega Shells
• 1 cup shred­ded ched­dar or Mex­i­can cheese blend
• Taco Sauce & Sour Cream tai­lored to your pallet

Im not brand push­ing here or any­thing but in my mind — there is no other at home quick fix taco brand.

Pre­heat over to 350°

Brown ground beef in a skil­let, drain and fol­low the instruc­tions on the lit­tle packet o’ magic (add 1/3 cup water and con­tents of packet). While all that’s get­ting to know each other, chop your pep­per, onion and spinach, set on a a plate so peo­ple can top their tacos as they like. Place your shells in the oven for a few min­utes to heat through and serve.

I am a cheese-mean-onion-pepper-sauce-cheese-lettuce on a hard shell per­son myself. Your guar­an­teed those last few extra bites of heaven that fell to the plate when the shell breaks apart and ruins your creation.

Sorry for the free­bie guys, I just haven’t really been in the kitchen this week and tacos really are my com­fort food.

On a side note I just want to men­tion that I do have the most amaz­ing Daddy in the whole world. He truly did ride in all ‘white knight and stal­lion’ the other day to save me and it was the most thought­ful and amaz­ing thing he has ever done. I am so for­tu­nate and lucky to have a father I am close with who I trea­sure and I know trea­sures me. I know no mat­ter what every­thing will be ok.

I don’t know what tomor­row holds for me but I do know that I have some awe­some peo­ple in my cor­ner and I will never be alone. We aren’t always peaches and cream — but were true and real through thick and thin. I hope they all know I love them very much and they mean the world to me.

“This is my fam­ily. I found it, all on my own. Is lit­tle, and bro­ken, but still good. Yeah, still good.”

~Stitch from Disney’s Lilo and Stitch