taco bowl tuesday is also tight,
albeit maybe just a little baby bit less so.
i dunno.
could be they have comparable grips on deliciousness.
you tell me:
s'good, or nah?
i mean,
there's a whole bunch of stuff heaped in that bowl,
and everything by itself is F*ing expert,
so i s'pose the sum of the parts is even MORE elite....
i ate the heck out of it,
and the took down a whole other 'nother 'nother bowl, right after.
mmmhmmm.
too much is the right amount, after all.
what's in it?
well, the rice has lime zest and juice in there,
and it's delicately citrusy.
the quick mixed pickles are, as always, the right call.
rules is rules, neighbors-
and it's been established as law that the pickles show up during taco times.
mmmhmmm.
i took an in-progress shot:
...and that's why i don't do it that often.
stay ugly, eat beautiful.
i believe in that;
but, i think that it's reserved for just the finished product,
because that pot is funky af, man.
it's also fragrant in the best way,
and twice as flavorful as it is busted-lookin'.
...sorta like y'boi.
apple cider vinegar, raw sugar, pink salt, red onion, purple carrot, radish, and jalapeno,
boiled up and cooled down.
y'know- the usual.
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now,
there's the rice on one side,
and a handful of exxxtra-crisp lettuce on the other,
the pickles are hangin' out,
and so is that pico de gallo.
yeah:
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it's minced red onion,
hybrid brown and regular red sweet tomatoes,
a little baby bit of poblano,
a scoop of scallion and cilantro,
lime juice, salt and pepper.....
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that's good for you, like eagles' eggs, without harming endangered species, bro.
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scallion, red onion, jalapeno, and cilantro sprankles all stopped by, too.
after all, if there aren't spranks, y'all bowls ain't for sh!t, dudes.
real talk.
the little spritzles really turn it up to eleven.
that's a thing.
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the bowl as a whole was great,
but the real boomfire fuego-a-go-go were the chili chickpeas and cauliflower powerbomb!
mmmmhmmmmm.
look a this stuff, friends:
SO HOT!
how do we recreate it at home?
pretty easily, as a matter of fact-
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BURNINGCHICKIEPEEPEE!
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in a non-stick pa, on high-ish heat,
toss together
2 cloves of crushed garlic;
1/4 cup minced onion,
and a few cups of chopped cauli-florets,
and let 'em get a little baby bit brown, with maybe a tablespoon of olive oil...
next, spice 'em up halfway-
that means 1 tsp each Garlic Powder and Onion Powder,
plus 2 tsp smoked paprika and 1 tsp hot paprika and 1/4 tsp cayenne,
plus oregano, and 2 T fire-roasted tomato flakes-
sizzle that up for a minute or two,
derglaze the crisp bits with 1 T apple cider vinegar,
then add 12 oz. drained and rinsed chick peas,
salt, pepper, a tsp of sugar and 1 T+ of sriracha!!
yeah!!!
it basically red stuff on beige stuff, until everything gets pretty orange.
you aren't ready for this much taste attacking your buds, bud,
but you won't be able to go back again once you get a little bite
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and last, but abso-lutely not least,
there's the big action activation,
and showstoppin' jaw-and-panty dropper:
RAINBOW FIESTA GUAC-A-F*ING-MOLE,
WITH RAINBOW FIESTA TORTILLA CHIPS!!!
y'all weren't ready for this much hottness.
i've told you guys about my guac scene before,
but as it's a new year,
and there's so much to be said for how expert this stuff is,
i'll tell you one more mutha-F*ing time:
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RAINBOW FIESTA GUACROCKIN' BEATS!
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in a big glass bowl, because those look sexxxy, toss together:
1/4 cup tiny minced red, orange, and yellow sweet mini bell peppers
(the small ones DO taste different, dudes, but you can use the regular ones, too obvi);
1/2 minced red onion;
2 T minced poblano;
1/2 minced jalapeno;
one handful chopped cilantro;
2-3 cloves pressed garlic;
2 T scallion a.k.a. green onions a.k.a shoutouts to booker t;
a big shake of GPOP, pink salt, and black pepper,
plus a heavy squeeze of lime AND lemon.
lemon for preservative acid activation,
and lime for the big yums.
word.
toss all that yup,
and mash in 3 avocados, blending everything up nicey-nice,
then stuffing the its back in the pulped-up jumble to stall the brown-out for a bit.
DUDES!
you need this in your life.
the multi-colored chips were a pretty touch, but any chips would've been a boon
to the scoop-up shoveling of this stuff into your face!
that's no joke.
good guac is like good decisions-
most people don't know what the eff that even means-
and the ones who do can't ever really tolerate anything less...
ha.
that's funny because it's true.
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determination versus determinism versus termination.
that's heavy stuff to think about.
making and following through on decisions, even when they are hard?
that's determination.
that's awesome, and rare, and one of the traits i prize most highly in others.
the notion that previous events sequentially stacked, predict inevitable outcomes,
following rational pathways, so that what we think is free will
is just cause and effect, invariably shaped by prior events
influencing future circumstances is what we call determinism,
or at least, how it can be roughly defined.
so can the former overcome the latter?
well, yes, for sure.....if you don't believe in logic.
and then again, the answer is still maybe,
if you believe that organic evolution is a response to environmental necessities.
right?
you adapt to the situation at hand, or you perish.
and termination is just what happens when you choose NOT to continue,
or you fail at it.
damn.
so, which is it that makes the most sense?
and what's it gonna be?
well, for me,
it's always the harder way, every damned day.
determination could be futility or it could be the key to overcoming and breaking
the strings the fates have tied to us....
if that's a thing.
i'm not really sure, to be honest.
however,
i do know this:
if you give up,
you're just admitting that what you've got is what you deserve;
instead of getting up, and trying harder, and earning something greater.
uh-huh.
giving up, and accepting less?
man, that means you're just settling,
....and that's NOT invited.
no?
aren't we better than that?
the plot may be predictable, or it might have a whole lot of twists,
but it's still all really happening,
and that's the whole point.
no matter what, and whatever comes next,
we have to try to be our best selves,
like, don't we, though, for real?
otherwise we're wasting time,
and there's just not enough of that for us to be frivolous with.
the question is-
do we have a choice, or is it all unfolding along undeterrable developmental designs?
i need to think we can steer our course and become what we want to be,
but the truth is:
nature wins.
and there are patterns in all of nature,
so it stands to reason that there are patterns overlapping and influencing everything else, too.
if there is no test to pass, and no function to follow form,
i'm still choosing that hard way.
yup.
to be the MOST me i can be, in the best possible light.
i want to believe it's of my own free will.
if not,
then the secret universal architects provided blueprints to my reality-
but,
it would seem they're instructions on how to build a bomb shelter;
never quiet, never soft.....
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