Tonight for Dinner

I don't like to cook, i never have. When I was a teenager my mom made me learn how to make the basics, bistek con cebollas, sopa de arroz, sopa de pasta, caldo de pollo, caldo de rez, frijoles, huevos fritos. With time i learned a couple of tricks to make the cooking easier, but not more fun.

My discovery of Banquet home style meals made me feel soo happy, until i made it and wanted to throw up after tasting it. Who did ever come up with the idea of putting chicken in a can? Same with frozen meals, except those made my Hermanito so sick he had to stay home for 2 days.

Ragu sauce can be pretty good with pasta, until I discovered the little italian restaurant that makes their own, and make the Ragu taste like a shoe. We would buy spaggetti there and ask for extra sauce, then save the rest for our own pasta.

Therefore, i make all my meals from scratch, or the closest to it that i can. I hate the Salsa that is sold in the super market, i hate the enchilada sauce, the guacamole, the mole doña Maria and don't even get me started on the tortillas; they all taste awful !! I do, however, love frozen peas, frozen corn, frozen pretzels, frozen dinner rolls and frozen fries.

My esposo thinks that i shouldn't worry too much about what i make for dinner, he loves those banquet things, that i find extra salty. He has in the fridge 1 big container or Ragu sauce and he has bought frozen meals and fake burritos.

Most of my meals include tortillas, rice, salsa de jitomate and some sort of popatoes.

This week I am planning to make Puertorican rice mexican style, i call it mexican style because is the recipe that my friend came up with and REAL puertorican rice tastes a lot better. Tostadas, grilled chicken with mash potatoes, chilaquiles and Quesadillas.

I'm hungry just from talking about it.