Rubio's Night

Last Saturday, my husband tried to bring a little bit of California to our dinner table and made fish tacos. Man can he cook, here is a look at our plates.

                                             

                             

The Movers Arrive: June 5th

The movers arrived around eight-thirty in the morning and were finished by three, leaving the overwhelming task if unpacking mislabeled boxes packed by moving company employees.

Kitchen

 Living Room

Office 

Can you tell that we suffer from TMC (too much crap) syndrome? This was only three rooms. There were three more rooms and a garage that weren't photographed. How the heck did we cram all this stuff into a 900 sq ft home when it doesn't even look like it will even fit in this 1980 sq ft home.

Meeting the Neighbors

On our first night in our house one of our neighbors came to say hello--more appropriately, "Rib-bit." 

The thing is, he visits every night and sits on the cool concrete driveway and eats his dinner. 

Finally A Clean House: Before Movers

Front door entrance and fireplace. 

This is one large room which we will separate from a dinning table on the opposite side of the room.

                      

Back Door and area where we will put or dinning table.

My husband's office.

To show how big our canopy chair is see photo below from an Eagles youth football game.





2011 photo: Referees are Jan Bissel and Art Cortez

                                                       

Kitchen with open bar area which looks into open front room. To left of stove is doorway to hall and bedrooms. Okay, kitchen isn't so clean, but it shows the pantry to the right, laundry room to the left, and doorway to hall and bedrooms to the left of the stove. 

 Master Bedroom 

Tex-Mex is not the Mex I'm Used To: June 3rd

Enchallidas a'la Tex-Mex

After stretching our legs while admiring our new home, our stomachs’ growling became audible to the neighbors, so we decided to go out for Mexican food. We headed to Red Oak, a nearby town, and ate at a restaurant called Cancun’s.

I ordered cheese enchiladas, and the waitress asked, “Con carne or Queso?”

I replied, “Queso,” proudly thinking to myself how cool I was for knowing queso is Spanish for cheese. 

  

When the food arrived, I was shocked to see what looked like nacho cheese sauce on top of my enchiladas.

When the waitress returned, I tried hard not to squench my nose at the gloppy, yellow puddle covering the rolled tortillas on my plate, and asked, “Don’t you have the red pepper-based enchilada sauce?”

She looked at me like I was crazy, and I realized Tex-Mex isn't the Mexican I'm used to... so, I will now plagiarize L. Frank Baum and admit, " Toto, I've a feeling we're not in California [poetic license allows for substitution] anymore." 

Texas Migration - Destination Arrival: June 4rd

We finally arrived at our destination around 5 p.m.

Our Front Porch




 View from our porch.

Front view of our new home.

Texas Migration - Rocky Mountain Oysters: June 3rd

We arrived in Amarillo about five o'clock and decided to go to dinner at a restaurant featured on the Food Channel's show Man Vs. Food. The helpings were huge, food was fantastic, waitress was wonderful, and the ambiance was awesome. We couldn't have had a better time.

Big Texan Stake Ranch: Home of the famous free 72 ounce steak (if you can eat it within a hour)

http://www.bigtexan.com/

Rocky Mountain Oysters, aka bull testicles. May sound gross, but when served fried with a little ranch dressing they taste just like chicken tenders.

Inside the Big Texan 

The stage for the 60 minute challenge is below the long horn skull.

Check out the website above so you can see the size of the steak.