Does Your Personal Utopia Involve Your Mother? Lord Help Me, Mine Does.

Tonight as we were riding in the car I was reading off questions from my newly purchased book, Conversation Piece. Maybe it's just me, but I llllooooovvvvee books that pose random questions that those around you are forced to answer. At least those that are around me are.

Here was one of the questions me, mom and Meridith tried to answer:

Envision the most perfect scene you can think of - a personal utopia, if you will. Imagine a scene that would be so lovely you would never, ever want to leave. What would it be? Who would be there? What would it look like?

You wanna know something really sad? Meridith's personal utopia involved something wonderful and romantic, something elaborate and grand, whimsical and fantastical. But when mom and I envision our "personal utopia" it involves a table with everyone sitting around it eating. (I think I might need to see a professional about this. I don't think there's any inkblot in the world that would have trouble diagnosing this problem.)

So on that sad note, allow me to introduce you to something else you might find in my personal utopia...or at least something you might find sitting on my table in my personal utopia.

You can find this little gem at http://www.thehomesicktexan.blogspot.com/


You don't have to thank me. Just promise me that when you envision your personal utopia, you will envision me sitting around the dinner table with you, will you? Thank you.


Oh, and if you're hanging out with your momma tonight like I am, then make yourself a big bowl of this, because oh sweet mercy, it was divine...

Ninfa’s Green Sauce

Ingredients:

3 medium-sized green tomatoes, coarsely chopped (you can substitute yellow if you can’t find green ones, but never use red)

4 tomatillos, cleaned and chopped

1 to 2 jalapenos, stemmed and coarsely chopped

3 small garlic cloves

3 medium-sized ripe avocados, peeled, pitted and sliced

4 sprigs cilantro

1 tsp. of salt

1 1/2 cups of sour cream

Method:

Combine chopped tomatoes, tomatillos, jalapenos and garlic in a saucepan.

Bring to a boil (tomatoes provide the liquid), reduce heat and simmer 10 to 15 minutes.

Remove from heat and let cool slightly.

Place tomato mixture with the avocados, cilantro and salt in food processor or blender and blend until smooth.

Pour into a bowl and stir in sour cream.

Makes 4 to 5 cups.

Add some Julio's chips....

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