Showing posts with label olives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olives. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

Friday, 3/11/2011

Ben went to a photography workshop today with his friends Ryan and Tim.  Ryan's wife, Vanessa, drove up from Puyallup this evening so that she and Ryan could go out to dinner with Ben, Katie and me.  Thinking that we might be able to beat the Friday night dinner rush by a few minutes, we decided to give Cactus, our favorite West Seattle Mexican restaurant, a try.  Luckily, we did, quite literally, just beat the rush and got a table right away.  

As of late, I haven't been able to keep myself away from the half order of nachos at Cactus.  I got the olives on the side for Katie, asked for no guacamole, and added chicken and chorizo.  This time, I think they skimped on the cheese a bit.  I had too many chips without any cheese on them.  Over all, it was still delicious.  Ben had a half order of nachos too, but with different ingredients.  He asked for no olives, jalapenos, or pico de gallo, and added chorizo and skirt steak.  Katie polished off my olives very quickly and then picked at her cheese quesadilla. 

It was so nice to catch up with Ryan and Vanessa.  We last saw them at Katie's birthday party in December. 

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Friday, 11/12/2010

We ate out at Cactus tonight.  Ben and I both had half orders of nachos with chorizo and chicken.  They remain my favorite nachos ever.  We ordered Katie a grilled chicken breast, which came sliced.  Knowing her like we do, we asked the waiter to bring her a bowl of ketchup.  Sure enough, she was only willing to eat the chicken once it had been dipped in ketchup multiple times.  She also ate a good helping of olives from my nachos.  I just order them on the side so that I can give them to her to eat.  

After we got Katie down for the evening, we watched the movie "An Education."  It was the last movie nominated for Best Picture in the 2010 Academy Awards that we needed to see.  Yes, I know that the Oscars were in March, but it just takes time to get through 10 movies when you stop to watch TV series like Mad Men:)  It was a good movie that I am glad I watched; although, I don't think I would watch it again.