Friday, March 21, 2025

Tex Mex Night

 Tonight we're having a Tex-Mex night including nachos, chicken and shrimp fajitas, salad, and dessert. This may be a meal I repeat so I wanted to write down the steps:

  1. Make the Pico de Gallo 
  2. Prep the refried beans
  3. Slice the peppers and onions
  4. Prep the sauces
  5. Prep the Guacamole
  6. 4ish Prep the beef, shrimp, sheet pans w/sauces, heat oven
  7. 5:30 put together the nachos/warm up
  8. 6:00 roast the peppers/chicken sheet pan, roast peppers/onions for shrimp sheet pan
  9. 6:20 add shrimp to shrimp sheet pan
  10. Turn oven to warm, 6:30 slice chicken, heat wraps in microwave
  11. 6:45ish serve dinner 
For serving

Appetizer
  1. start with the nachos - serve on a big platter and offer little plates, forks, napkins
  2. Offer beer, wine, margaritas, water, seltzer
Meal
  1. sheet pan chicken and shrimp fajita ingredients 
  2. wraps
  3. rice
Dessert
  1. cupcakes
  2. ice cream

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