Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Closer

She's so pink!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

New Years Eve - Quite Late

So for New Year's Eve I got together with a bunch of friends down in Alexandria. B got us a reservation at a Mexican restaurant we'd never heard of, because it was one of the few that still had open seats. It had a difficult Aztec name that we mispronounced until we just gave up and called it "Casa WacaWaca"

On the menu, we noticed that under appetizers was "Grasshopper Fondue," which was described as a cheese fondue with grasshoppers. B decided we had to try it as part of our New Years Adventure.

In my mind, I saw a cheddar-type fondue with big old fried grasshoppers for dippin'. The kind that always managed to show up in Seminary class. What actually came was a small, ceramic pot with what looked like salsa with shredded cheese on top.

"Where's the grasshoppers?" we all asked each other. B took a spoon, and started stirring the cheese into the sauce. As she stirred this enormous black mound of grasshopper bit rose into view, and I just blurted out "Holy Crap those things have been cuisinarted!"

This is why I shouldn't go to nice places.

Anyway, we all tried some. I had mine on a chip. It tasted like crunchy, spicy tomato salsa. But the chitlin bits of the grasshopper really stick around in your mouth. It took a bit to get them washed down, and in my brain was this reoccuring thought, "Leg or antenna? Leg or antenna? Leg or antenna?"

I only had the one chip. For dinner I had lamb tacos that were amazing.