Saw this shirt on Shirt.Woot.com today – had to share with my fellow BBQ buddies. If you are a BBQ fan, you will love this Evolution of BBQ shirt…
This shirt is too sweet, and I just picked me one up. But just like everything on Woot… it won’t be around for long at 10$, so if you want it, better get to it! (hat tip: @zealotonastick)
Around these parts, we have these things called an alley. Some places we go, people say… A WHAT? They don’t get it, we try to explain… and it just doesn’t translate. So we will explain, but forgive us if you have alleys where you are from and we go all third grade on you.
An alley is a road that splits a block of houses in half long ways – so that the garbage man can drive his big garbage truck and pick up the dumpsters of trash. There are several big dumpsters on each block and you take your trash out to those dumpsters as needed and they are picked up twice a week. Just imagine (if you don’t have an alley) that instead of putting your trash in trash cans by the street on trash day – you can throw them in a big community dumpster on your block and the trashman takes that instead.
We are 9 days in now.
Figured we would have jumped ship by now huh? Thanks. Thanks for believing in us. We will remember that.
This meal is probably one of the easiest we make. The funny thing is, we like it a lot – and its sooooo simple. Really. If you can open a few cans… brown some meat… press some buttons… you got this one. Not only easy – quick & cheap too. Quite the combo.
Your thinking… DUDE… spill the beans already, what is it? Green chili casserole. Here is the whole menu…
Green Chili Casserole
Corn Chips
Guacamole
2 Beers (total… not each)
Simple eh? And good. We will go ahead and give you the recipe for the green chili casserole while we are at it.
Green Chili Casserole
1lb Ground Beef
1 can of cream of mushroom
1 can of cream of chicken
corn tortillas
1 small can of diced green chilis
Instructions: Brown ground beef in a pan. After ground beef is done, add all your cans (cream of mushroom, cream of chicken & diced green chilis). Stir all ingredients until mixed up well. Grab a 9×9 oven-safe casserole dish and grease it (pam, whatever). Make a layer of the beef mixture on the bottom and cover it with corn tortillas (might take 4). They can overlap… no problem. Make another layer the beef mixture, then another layer of tortillas. After that – one more layer on top of the beef (use the rest). Your oven should be preheated to 350, and place your casserole in for 20 minutes. Top with grated cheese and let bake for 5 more minutes – then pull from the oven.
Sweet huh? And the left-overs are killer. We cut up the remainder of the corn torts into triangles and fried them up for chips. Oh yeah, guacamole too. Made from scratch. 2 alvacados, some cilantro, some green onion… diced tomatoes, diced jalapeno & lime juice from half a lime. Salt, pepper & garlic to your own taste. We like cilantro so much – we always put a lil extra in. Save the alvacado seeds and throw them in the bowl of guac – it will help keep it fresh. Then tear that stuff up!
Figure we paid about 5-6 bucks total for this meal. Not bad considering we could likely eat it 2 more times this week with the left-overs. So if you break it down even into just 2 meals – thats 2-3 bucks per meal. Cha-ching!
How is your personal quest for fast food independence? We were talking tonight and said we should have called this Fast Food Rehab. Hindsight right? Oh well. What did you eat last night? Did you fall victim to the monster? Hop back on the wagon, we have room.
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