Friday, 2/4/2011

Katie and I picked Ben up from work today and headed to Cactus, our favorite restaurant on Alki beach.  I can't seem to stay away from their nachos with roasted corn, jalapenos, pico de gallo, charred tomato salsa, buttermilk crema, chicken, and chorizo.  Yum!!!  Ben had a pork dish off of the menus of specials for the evening.  The pork was extremely tender and was in a delicious sauce.  He didn't care of the carrot topping.  We got Katie a chicken quesadilla.  She ate some of it, but was more interested in coloring.  

The best part of the meal, not really, was when Katie leaned over in her booster seat to give me a piece of tortilla chip.  She fell over onto me, dragging her paper placemat and the bowl of salsa resting on it, into her lap.  I was blowing my nose at the time and couldn't do anything to stop her.  It makes me want to use high chairs until she can't fit anymore.  The benches in restaurant booths are just not stable enough for booster seats, at least not for our squirmy toddler. 

Saturday, 7/10/2010

We got home from our vacation around 4:30 tonight. Since the fridge was pretty empty and the house was hot, we decided to go out for dinner. Ben and I both wanted to go to Cactus on Alki beach. There were so many people at the beach today for the West Seattle Summer Fest and the Seafair Pirates Landing. I was shocked that we didn't have to wait more than 20 minutes for a table. The garage doors on the front of the restaurant were open and we had a great breeze throughout our meal.

I ate a 1/2 order of nachos. I am pretty sure that was the best plate of nachos I have ever had. I had roasted corn, jalapeños, pico de gallo, charred tomato salsa, buttermilk crema, chicken, and chorizo on my chips. Oh, and I know there was some kind of cheese on them too. I ordered the black olives on the side so that I could give them to Katie. She dumped them all out of the bowl in front of her and then put almost all of them back in. Wow, each bite was soo full of flavor. I would DEFINITELY order that again!

Ben had the House Chimichchanga: crisp flour tortilla, chorizo, jack cheese and green chile sauce. We both love the rice they serve at Cactus. It has small pumpkin seeds in it, which give a little crunch. Katie had a pretty big lunch, so she only ate some of Ben's rice and my olives for dinner. She was far more interested in people watching and coloring on her placemat than eating.