Hello, Dearies!
Even though it is Friday (for a few more minutes, anyway,) I am super-thankful and joyful to announce that my stats class is *OVER*!!!! That's a thankful, a wahoo, and a "FINALLY!!!" all in one!!!! Today was the final exam, grade is posted and it is OVER. Thank goodness!!! It was sooooo boring!
I'm trying to remember all the new foods I've been doing lately, but it's probably good that I can't... you'd think the reason I haven't been posting much so far this month is that I've been stuffing my face!!!
One thing I recall is that I made a mango salsa to put over fish a while back, that was really good and I'll make that again sometime
I tried canned seasoned yellow squash, that wasn't very good, but now I can stop wondering...
On Cinco de Mayo, DD11 wanted to make breakfast for dinner, so we did breakfast tacos, which I discovered in Texas years ago... (scrambled eggs, refried beans, chunks of cooked potato, bacon, cheese, fresh salsa- not jarred, all in a tortilla... fresh made if you can get/make one...) Since I've been at least TRYING to be a little better about things, I did regular breakfast tacos for them, and for me, I smashed a baked potato, added 1/4c refried beans, one scrambled egg, one slice of crumbled bacon, and lots of salsa... no cheese, no tortilla... The calories were about the same, but instead of all the fat from the cheese and tortilla, it was from the extra potato, so I traded fat for fiber and potassium. Overall, it tasted pretty good... (but nothing is as good as a REAL one...)
I tried another one of the packaged Indian foods I'd bought a while back... this one was Madras Lentils, I think... it tasted like canned chili, except it was meatless. Once again, I'd eat it if was my only option, but otherwise, meh...
On the other hand, I tried an "Amy's potato samosa wrap." That thing was DELICIOUS! It was not the healthiest thing on the planet, but I do like samosas, and they are not easy to find, and when you do find them, you never know what's in them, calorie counts, etc... so this was a way to have all that information... definitely will have that again some time....
Wednesday I made tamales and had some of the masa batter left over when the filling was used up, so I made two with black beans as the filling... those are in the fridge still, and I will probably have them over the weekend. Oh, and with the tamales, I tried a new type of beans as a side... Bush's brand "Black Bean Fiesta." It was so-so, I'm not a huge fan of chipotle flavoring, and I cut mine half-and-half with plain black beans to tone it down a little.
And lastly (see, I told you it's a lot, this is over the past few weeks... there's more I can't think of, too...) I have been working my way through different foil packs of tuna, trying to find ones that will be good for packing in my lunches for school in the fall. Most recently I tried a Tomato Basil one from Bumblebee brand. It wasn't awful, a little vinegar-y, but vaguely pizza-flavored, too. Not planning to buy it again, but would eat if that was all there was.