You may have been wondering, "what happened to all the food posts?" Well, we got a little disorganized after the move, then Mrs. Fly's laptop died and then I never got around to networking the new laptop. She is the keeper of all photos, LDO. Well, now that I finally got around to setting up all the computers, I can start posting food posts more regularly.
She's always made awesome dinners, but since we've moved here, she's taken it up a notch. The food's never been better. I think when D no longer goes to pre-school part-time, and starts school full-time, she may pursue her interest in food. We're not sure what yet, but that's a ways away.Anyway, lately she's been making a lot of her famous chicken enchiladas. This is easily one of the ten best things she makes (and she makes a lot of good dishes). I can't order enchiladas at restaurants any more because it's just so inferior in all ways - not enough meat and filling not savory enough being the two biggest complaints. The last hope for outside enchiladas was when we went to our favorite beef fajita place (Uncle Julio's), but it was no contest (even tho they had a head start with their great freshly made tortillas).
Am I just deluded? I don't think so - I've eaten at most of the best restaurants in NYC and a handful of the top restaurants around the world. And early on in our marriage, her cooking was decent but not great. I'm not one of those people who is going to lie to perpetuate crappy dinners. I didn't get to 270lbs eating crap. But here are other testimonials:
* A good MEXICAN friend of ours in CT and another MEXICAN friend here in Texas thought it was easily the best enchiladas they've ever had.
* One of our silver spoon friends (who's eaten at a bunch of good restaurants) got into a fight with his wife because the wife decided to serve two of the three trays of enchiladas (we had made for them before we left) to their guests.
* A local guy who hates ethnic food thought it was the most amazing thing he ever tasted and had to fight with his brother-in-law for the last piece.
And more recently, she took the enchiladas to a pot luck brunch at a local women's organization and overwhelmingly was voted... "Breakfast Queen."
Recipe to follow in a future post? ;-)





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