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***drool*** i am so fortunate to be married to a man of mexican descent. his mom makes wonderful mexican food and we have lots of mexican friends that like to feed us :) there is never any need for us to go searching for delicious mexican food but its good to know its out there!

I once had pizza with spaghetti noodles baked on top of the crust underneath all the cheese and toppings. it looked similer to this. and it was also the worst pizza i have ever had. something about the texture of the noodles. my husband liked it but i think he would eat anything in the shape of a pizza.

when i was first married i had my parents and grandparents over for dinner. i wanted to make this awesome beef dish that i learned from a brazilian friend. well, the beef had to be very thinly sliced and i didnt know you could ask the butcher to slice it for you, so i did it myself. about half way through the piece of raw meat i couldnt handle it anymore and stopped slicing. i figured i had a fairly large pile of meat already cut and with rice and salad it would make enough. well it didnt. all 6 of us got about 2 tiny slices of beef, a little rice and LOTS of salad hahaha!!! i felt so bad!
the night before i had made an apple crisp and wanted to share it will them so they would feel more full. but my hubs and i had eaten alot of the crisp already so there was just barely enough left to divide between my parents and gparents. barely. i think they just thought we were too poor to afford more food. i was soooooo embarrassed!!!

my mom makes the most delicious apple cake. its just a simple one layer spicalicious apple cake but then right out of the oven you poke holes in the top and pour on a melted butter/ brown sugar combo. it seeps into the cake and makes it so moist and buttery and awesome that i might just die of happiness when i eat it. its called apple dapple cake and i found many variations online that look maybe close.

someone mentioned ice cream on waffles...yeah we had that alot!!! but i always thought everyone ate them that way. so delicious...... reading about dad's putting milk on everything i remembered my dad would make these biscuit-y cinnamon rolls on weekends and he always served them to us kids in a bowl of milk. it was really awesome actually! also i hated scrambled eggs so he would dump a bunch of leftover pasta into the eggs and then they were delicious!!!

my father in law though...my husband tells of his inventions, the one that sticks in my head is the popped popcorn scrambled in with his eggs! :)

my favorite cookies EVER are ginger chocolate chip cookies...rolled in powdered sugar before baking...i think...so so so good!

i dont have one in particular, but i make a wide variety of dishes and my husband puts hot sauce on EVERYTHING. he might take one or two bites without it, but he will without fail end up putting it on. i used to feel kind of offended, it seemed my food wasnt tasty enough but he even puts it on restaurant food so i guess his tastebuds just need the spice!

You can usually pit olives easily buy smashing them with a glass with a flat bottom or something equal to that. Smashing them is the key, makes it so so fast and easy. Of course this works best with softer olives, but also works with firmer ones :)

spain is awesome, but im kinda surprised they let you pick out your own oranges! every place i went to picked them out for you. hope you can find a replacement snack here...i have been hooked on the little minneola tangerines with a few roasted almonds.

that is so creepy. but i kinda do want to taste it now....