My way of celebrating Cinco de Mayo

Well Cinco de Mayo doesn't mean that much to me, but I decided to make delicious Mexican food to celebrate!

I have been wanting to make a "fake guacamole." Which is guacamole with asparagus instead of avocado as the base. I found a recipe from my favorite website eatbetteramerica.com. It's called Almost Guacamole. Brian already teased me about the name, so I don't need anyone else to do so... Haha! It is my new favorite thing I think...it was soooo good. I used plain Greek yogurt instead of mayonaise and I used cholula for the red pepper sauce. And I used red onion instead of white. Limes were on sale so I bought several limes instead of bottled lime juice. My roommates and I will be having limes on everything for the next few days!

I also wanted to make a salsa, but it turned out to be more of a salad. I found a recipe for Corn and Black Bean Salad, also on eatbetteramerica. It had cilantro and red onions like the Almost Guacamole and it had fire-roasted tomatoes which sounded just too delicious to pass up!

Instead of buying tortilla chips, I took the hommade tortillas my roommate made the other day, and some more healthier corn tortiallas from the store, sliced them into triangles and then baked them with a little canola oil. I squeezed lime over them and sprinkled some salt and oh man.. were they delicious.

The two roommates that were here to eat everything with me are still complimenting me on everything! We all really enjoyed everything. I'm definitely keeping these recipes around!

Tonight...I'm going to make a Strawberry dessert that is strawberries, sweetener, and lemon juice. I'm thinking of added some Greek Yogurt to it, too!

Best. Chicken Pot Pie. Ever.

So my roommates and I started this new thing where we make dinner for everyone, once a week. Since there are six of us, we have dinner together six nights a week! It's only been a couple days so far. Amanda made a great Chinese Chicken Salad on Sunday. And she made a healthified version of Pretzel Salad (one my favorite things...ever) to go with it! Last night, Angela made a delicious Taco Soup and cornbread.

Tonight, I was late for dinner because I had my voice lesson, but I came home to food just waiting for me! I bee lined for the glass pan on the counter, I lifted the saran wrap...and discovered that it was Chicken Pot Pie...and it was a "healthified"! I was so excited. I started eating......and it was soooo good! I wish I had taken a picture of it before I ate the last of it but it was just so tasty. I'm definitely saving the recipe for the future. Tiffany had also put together a strawberry spinach salad with almonds and raspberry pecan dressing. What a great meal!

This is going to be a great semester of delicious food...I can just taste it. :)