Today is Sunday, so I’ve put away my customary green apple 4loko and traded in for a nice nitro milk stout I’ve been meaning to try. The dark chocolate coffee tones resemble a good afternoon Sunday coffee to accompany me during my studies. By beginning my studies, I mean its more like I took out all the notes and work I would need and spent an hour organizing it. Now its lunch time!
There’s one thing I’m constantly craving: tacos. Mores specifically this little Mexican restaurant Taqueria Los Altos that I visit at least once or twice a week. Once I find something I like, I can keep eating it for months until I get sick of it. I go through these weird phases of obsessively eating one type of food for months on end until I finally tire of it. Sophomore year my diet comprised of muesli for one semester and jello the next. Fall of Junior year, I would spend $30-40 on just yogurt. In the spring I would go through half a dozen eggs in 2-3 days. This semester, my obsession isn’t quite as tunnel visioned since the pastor tacos I’m in love with require driving, ordering, and tipping to obtain. However, if I had an infinite supply in my fridge, I can assure you that’s all I would eat for days.
Every time I visit Los Altos, I order the same thing: 2 pastor tacos and 1 shredded chicken taco. There’s one thing however that makes the tacos AMAZING. Grilled jalapeños! I always order at least one jalapeño for each taco so that my mouth and lips are swollen and numb after each bite. Oh yeah I forgot to mention, I like to put jalapeños on everything. Anything I make always can use some more jalapeños.When I ordered and asked for jalapeños, the waitress used one finger and asked “One?”. When I replied “No, three. One for each taco”, I noticed she raised her eyebrows while saying okay and smiling at the pad she was writing my order on. My friend, who was eating with me, laughed after she walked away and joked that they were probably laughing at me in the back about the asian girl who really likes jalapeños.
It’s actually funny because I didn’t realize until I was just typing this paragraph that I’ve been spelling jalapeños wrong this whole time as “jalepenos”.
Dinner was not as appetizing as my fancy lunch. I made my typical HEB pre-seasoned chicken. It’s $4 for two chicken breasts! All you need to do is remove the plastic wrapping and stick it in the toaster oven for 18-20 minutes. I always eat one chicken breast and then save the other for my next meal. If you want a more balanced diet, aka colorful plate, it’s always cheap to buy a broccoli crown and add some as a side. Gotta admit, even though this is always my plan, I never actually make the broccoli. Usually it sits in my fridge until it goes bad and then I’ll buy more at my next HEB trip to make me feel healthier.
All in all, welcome to the most interesting parts of my typical Sunday. The only thing I’m sparing you from reading about is the majority of my day trying to finish all the work I saved for myself to do last minute.
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