Gently stale tostadas...

Monday night. Jeremy and I were in a huge hurry to meet with our wedding planner, Scotty- Jeremy had left work later than usual, we'd rescheduled with Scott a hundred times, our wedding is in less than two weeks, and it was already passed the time we needed to leave. I'd asked Jeremy to stop by the grocery store on the way home to pick up shredded cheese, and maybe some ham, if he wanted, to finish topping the pizzas we were going to eat on the way to meet Scotty. That's all I asked him to get. And when he walked in, he had 4-6 bags on his arms and had to go back out to the car to get more.

"...I got some other stuff..."

It's really hard to get mad at him. He's cute.

Part of what makes this game fun for us is that we look for deals at the grocery store. The grocery store closest to us has an aisle cap that has lots of items marked "Manager's Special," anything the store has that has been dropped or otherwise damaged so it's not as pretty and they can't sell it at normal price. We've learned the truth about these products: they (almost) always taste exactly the same as the food inside a box that hasn't been squished. I will throw in the cautionary disclaimer however: sometimes things are not in peak condition.

Exhibit A:

When Jeremy walked in with bags and bags and bags of stuff, I was excited about all of it. Especially when he pulled out a package of tostadas. I love tostadas. And you can do so many things with them! So that's what we had for dinner last night.

The tostadas, sadly, were stale.

Fortunately, the toppings I put together were really liquidy, so the crunchy tostadas just added texture and not flavor. Or lack thereof.

So the quick recipe to use later, with tostadas (that hopefully aren't stale!) is this:

The rice takes about half an hour. Start the rice first, then start collecting everything else you need. I used beans, shredded cheese, salsa, a variety of vegetables like corn and tomatoes. Throw it all in with the rice to get it all the same temperature, and then serve it warm on the tostadas. Delicious. And really not all that bad even when the tostadas are stale :)