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Taco Salad



It was a rough weekend all around for me. Flu is infecting the family. Vomit is everywhere. People are listless and cranky. I am the only one not sick, so I am responsible for the cleaning, and since no one else is eating, I am basically making my own food. Even though I *can* cook pretty damn well when I want to, my tastes for food this weekend were VERY repetitive, but delicious (to me anyway). Below is the basic design I have repeated every evening since Thursday:

For the past four days:

1. I have gotten a very large mixing bowl, and made myself a large "taco salad".
2. Basically, I crumbled up a bunch of corn chips.
3. Heated a half a can of jalapeno enhanced refried black beans.
4. Put on a large scoop of hummus.
5. Crumbled up 3 falafel patties.
6. I added a couple of scoops of sour cream.
7. Threw on half a can of black olives.
8. I diced one and a half HUGE Spanish onions.
9. I diced four tomatoes.
10. Topped it all with as much lettuce as I could fit heap onto the bowl.
11. I then added half a jar of slasa.
12. Finally I topped it with a sprinkling of cheese.

I then ate the whole thing... the whole damn thing. And every day I made it exactly the same way. I have eaten this four days in a row now, and if the rest of the family is still upchucking all over the place, I will clean up and probably eat the same thing again tonight. Just to set the record straight... the image above is NOT the taco salad I made... that puny, pitiful concoction wouldn't have filled a 1/3 of the 18 inch diameter bowl I used for my concoction.

I had initially thought today about writing about the more difficult hardship to befall me and the family this weekend, but I am not emotionally up to it at this time. Perhaps tomorrow I shall talk more about it, but basically, there has been the death of a close personal family friend and it has been very difficult.