Texas Caviar

You (repeatedly) asked and I (finally) answered!

See? I really do care about you all!

Texas Caviar is a great salad or a dip for chips (I prefer it as the latter.) that I have been craving and making in hard core fashion all summer and fall. I present to you here my own version of this culinary delight. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Oh, and my apologies in advance to those of you who prefer recipes with exact measurements.

Texas Caviar

You’ll need:

1 can of garbanzo beans

1 can of black beans

1 can of kidney beans

1 can of corn

2 avocados

1 small yellow onion

a bunch of cilantro

Italian dressing

sugar

lime juice

salt

To make:

Drain the beans and corn well. Put them in a bowl.

Chop up the onion into very small pieces. Add them.

Add about 1/3 bottle of Italian dressing to the mixture. Squirt in a whole buncha lime juice. Add some sugar. Like a 1/2 cup or something. And then add some salt. I love salt. Stir well. Cover. Chill overnight in the refrigerator.

Before serving, drain the Texas Caviar quickly in a colander. Cube up the avocado and add it. Rip up as much cilantro as you want and add it too. Toss together.

Serve with blue corn chips. Or Fritos. Or do what I did when I had guests last week and add some shredded smoked chicken breast and eat it with a fork as a salad.

Yum. Yum. YUM!

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Ages ago, so long ago in fact, I have no idea if Sirena, who sent this to me, is still around, has grown up to be a grandmother or even remembers this, I was sent this poem.

There was an old woman who lived in a boot
She had so many children, her life was a hoot.
She never washed dishes, nor yet swept the floor
Her kids did all that, so she had a few more!

The poem tickled me back then and it tickles me again now. Having even more children!? Am I crazy that the mere thought of that in a silly little poem gives me goosebumps?

Don’t answer that.

And those goosebumps are part of the reason I wrote a little article called Fluoride is my aphrodisiac for the Star Tribune online. Check it out if you want!

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In case you don’t read my Tweets in my left sidebar, didn’t see my discussion about it in my community, don’t follow me on Twitter or aren’t a friend of mine on Facebook (Whew! That was exhausting!), let me update you on the status of the MSE* in our household.

*Many Small Ears

After a visit to the Urgent Care tonight, my assumption that Nuggey now had an ear infection (Or two! Poor guy.) was confirmed. Also, Stellan and Small Fry have been increasingly crabby today, so I took them as well.

It was for them as I suspected as well: Their ear infections are not only not gone, they are worse! A different antibiotic was prescribed, and I hauled my lovely, drooly, whiny, mucousy children to Target to fill the prescription. We shuffled home, a new bottle of tea tree oil in hand as well, and met up with Prince Charming and (healthy!) Big Mac at home just in time for a late bedtime.

Sigh.

Ear infections bite!