Last month I kind of lost some momentum in blogging and I can’t say that I totally got my mojo back… but at the same time I feel like blogging. I guess blog when you feel it, right? haha. Actually I typed blog post this morning and now I’m typing a second one in the day and I have someone tapping my shoulder to see if they can mess up my typing. I already typed the word diving instead of blogging because, well…. I’m standing in a dive shop. It happens!
Anyway that paragraph has NOTHING to do with what this post is about. of course I’m off to a great start on another paragraph that still has nothing to do with the post. oy! Anyway….
I wanted to blog about another restaurant. I get made fun of sometimes because I take pictures of food and I blog about it even more so… but some day we may be eating blue and green and red pills to get our nutrition and I’d like to remember what real food looks like :).
Anyway…. So last week I had the pleasure of eating lunch at a Mexican restaurant called Acambaro. Let’s just say YUM!
Funny story about Acambaro, way back when (like 2008 maybe) there used to be one of these restaurants close to where I worked and we’d go there at lunch time. The owner of the restaurant would wait on our table a lot and one day, he handed me a business card with his cell phone number on it. I have to admit, I’ve seen stuff like that happen in novels and movies, etc, but that was the first and only time I’ve ever had that happen in real life. I’m not sure if the same guy owns this one that owned that way… but anyway….
Anyway back to this particular Acambaro. Like most Mexican restaurants you start out with chips and salsa. We also ordered cheese dip.
I’ve read a lot of blog posts written by more famous people than me (and that’s definitely not hard to be!) who say I should put three things to try at this place or the name of this place in the title or something better than One Taco Away… the but story… Jared asked if we wanted Mexican food last week and stated that he was one taco away from speaking Mexican. And no that wasn’t meant to be anything but funny!
He told us he knew of this place that had different Mexican food. Different, how? was the question. Really it was friggin awesome! So now, the food eaten at Lalo’s Taqueria…
And if you knew my daughter, this is the perfect high chair for her!
I woke up earlier than normal today. In fact, I was up at 5:45ish. Did you even know that hour existed? Well I’m here to tell you it does. So then I thought, I’ll go back to sleep for an hour, which truth be told is still earlier than I would normally get up but… I have to be at school earlier today than normal. Then… I couldn’t go back to sleep. So now I’m blogging.
I’ve also noticed that I start a lot of sentences with so. Just a side note.
The other day I was working on making a shopping list. And if there is something to be known about me, I suck at making lists. I think I get side tracked and generally don’t do them. It’s a long running joke here at my house. One Christmas the hubs asked me to make a list of something. I told him I would when I finished doing what I was doing. 10 minutes later he asked me if I made that list… I looked at him all confused. He explained and my response, “Oh, I forgot.” Now any time he asks me to make a list, that’s my first response.
Anyway I was actually making a shopping list, which he said we needed to do and it hadn’t been done. I took it upon myself to complete this task. So (there’s that so again) I stumbled across a few different recipes that sounded AWESOME! This was one of them. I think I might have been on pinterest, which all in itself is weird because I don’t typically just hang out there searching things. I pin things I want to find for later and I’m out. But apparently this day I forgot I was looking for something and started perusing? I can’t really explain it.
Hubs really likes French dips and truth be told, so do I. Now our biggest critic… she enjoyed this one. It is friggin awesome. Then we had a side of Garlic Mashed potatoes and ended with homemade oreo’s. We’ve had garlic/cheesy mashed potatoes a lot here lately, but I didn’t want the bag to go to waste! Sometimes I forget we have potatoes and they rot. ewwwww!
1. Heat EVOO over medium high heat in a large nonstick skillet. Sear all sides of the meat.
2. While you’re meat is browning, get the crock pot ready. Turn it on high to get the liquids to heat up, then once you add the meat reduce back to low. Add the crockpot ingredients to the crock pot. whisk together, then add the meat into the crock pot. Remember to back your heat off to low. (speaking of that, I need to go check mine!)
2. Cook on low for 4 hours, then remove roast to a cutting board. Thinly slice across the grain. Place back in the crock pot and continue to cook on low for an additional 1-2 hours.
3. When ready to serve, remove the roast and strain fat from the broth before dipping.
4. Split rolls and line the bottoms on a baking tray. Top each half with beef followed by 2 slices of the Provolone. Bake at 350˚F or until cheese is melted. Serve with the au jus.
Enjoy!
*The beef can be more or less. This was just what the recipe I used called for. Just adjust other ingredients accordingly.
**Beef consommé is found in the soup aisle next to the chicken/beef/vegetable broth/stock. If you can’t find it, just sub in beef broth. It’s all good and I won’t tell!
