1. In order to really get going today, I needed to roar out to Walmart at 8:00 and pick up a curbside order so I could get to work making a taco salad for Monday's family dinner. I rewarded myself after completing this arduous pick up by purchasing a 16 oz latte at Silver Peak Espresso.
2. I decided not to buy a taco seasoning packet and made one myself with the help of a recipe. I also decided to make a taco salad with two meats, ground beef and chicken thigh meat. I also added rice to the taco salad recipe I followed and further expanded the recipe to include Kalamata olives and cilantro.
Oh! The black beans. The recipe called for using a can of black beans, but I quick soaked dry beans and then cooked them, continuing my return to fixing beans from scratch rather than using canned ones. I like how doing this takes me back to my formative years of cooking for myself when I was single and going to graduate school forty years ago. The bean cooking process remains the same!
I'd never made a taco salad before today and hope what I built works.
3. As I think about how to end this blog post, it doesn't seem like I did much yesterday. Suddenly, a salient fact comes back to me. I completed the Sunday NYTimes crossword puzzle and that project took quite a bit of time! I enjoyed the effort and the satisfaction I felt when I completed it.
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