Showing posts with label shaved ice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shaved ice. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Foods that are good to eat!

We have been using this new table and eating outdoors pretty often.  We usually grill a ton of veggies and some fish or steak on the weekend and see what we can get out of it.  

Here you can probably see we did fajitas.  There is an awesome restaurant down the street called Mama Rosa's Tortilla Factory.  

You just drive through and bam - hot, freshly made, homemade tortillas.  Delicious.  If you have never made your own tortillas or tasted them homemade, they are really easy and so worth it.  I remember learning to make them in 7th grade or so.  Bomb.com

I think we actually made chicken and shrimp fajitas this time and threw some corn on the grill too.  Add a little wine and what a delicious dinner.



Of course we have also been back to that sweet treat that is shaved ice.  Secret Agent Man had Monster's Inc. (Mike Wazowski) I had strawberry colada and special Agent Dad had lemon.


We got some delicious purple potatoes in the CSA box this week.  Cooked them up and had breakfast for dinner.  With yum oatmeal and omelettes.


This oatmeal has a secret ingredient:



A splash of this almond coconut milk at the end gives the oatmeal a rich and creamy texture with just a hint of coconut.  Yum.


Had to do it again.



Special Agent Dad is loving this concentrated iced coffee.  Pour over ice, thin with water and drop in a straw.

Tonight we grilled a ton of vegetables with some trout.  There were mushrooms, asparagus, more of those purple potatoes, bell peppers, onions, summer squashes, and eggplant.  




Saturday, June 30, 2012

78% Fish Pee

Secret Agent Man earned some shaved ice today.  We discovered a cool place a few weeks back that makes shaved ice (snow cone/ slushie) with about 30-40 delicious flavors.  It's outside with a patio and misters.


We made a deal with Secret Agent Man that if he completes 120 minutes of drum practice a week then he gets shaved ice.  He worked hard this week to get in every minute!  At a make up practice this morning his drum teacher said he reads music while playing so well that he will be a studio musician!  Not sure what that means.  Hahaha!  Anyway, he had a lot more fun playing this week with the shaved ice motivation.

He picked Shark Attack.  Shark attack is fruit punch (Hawaiian Blue) with Tiger's Blood!  He loved that!


After our Shaved Ice we headed out to the river for some fishing.  We saw some carp and blue gill last time we were at the river so we were going prepared with the proper bait this time.




As soon as we waded into the warm river water Secret Agent Man exclaimed "Ugh!  This water's warm.  This river is 78% Fish Pee.".  



Secret Agent Man and Special Agent Dad started catching little blue gill and sunfish right away.  I caught a few and then later on Special Agent Dad caught a couple of big carp.  They were extra slimy.





By the end of the night Secret Agent Man was so hungry he started eating the bread we brought for the carp.  Special Agent Dad said "Don't eat all the bread!  You're a land carp!".  That had Secret Agent Man laughing hysterically for about 20 minutes.