Jalapeno=DANGEROUS

My laptop has been at the "doctor" for the past 2 weeks and that is the reason why this blog has been dormant. Unfortunately, I have preschool graduation on Wednesday and probably won't be back to normal until next weekend. So, until then I will leave a recipe and a funny story (well, funny to you all, but not me).

So, I decided to make salsa by myself for the first time on Saturday. I won't go into too much detail, but let's just say that I wiped my nose after de-veining a jalapeño. If any of you have done that you will know the excruciating burning that was going on under my nose and on my top lip. I couldn't even think. Joey was gone and so I googled what to do about a "jalapeño burn." I saw that rubbing alcohol should take the burn away and so I ran upstairs to find some. Of course I couldn't find any and so I had to call my neighbor/friend across the street and ask for some...this meant also telling her the story. I could see her trying not to laugh as she opened her door to let me borrow some rubbing alcohol. I ran home and stuck a q-tip into the rubbing alcohol and then onto the burn. It helped pretty well. Then I tried some milk and kept on switching between the two. The burning sensation lasted for awhile, but it wasn't bad at all. So, now all of you know what to do if you ever make the same mistake that I did. But, let's just avoid the burn and either don't touch the seeds, or wear gloves. I definitely won't make that mistake again.

By the way, this recipe is AWESOME and so EASY!! I found it on a cooking blog called Pimp My Dinner. Here it goes.

Authentic Burnt Mexican Salsa

8-10 roma tomatoes
1-2 jalepenos
1 medium onion
3/4 t. lime pepper (or lemon pepper)
3/4 t. Lawry's seasoning salt
3/4 t. Lawry's garlic salt
3/4 t. salt
1 dash oregano
1/2 t. dried cilantro
1 can diced tomatoes
1/2 bunch cilantro (chopped)

Place roma tomatoes, jalepenos and onion in a frying pan on high heat. You can half the onion and depending on how hot the jalepenos are, you may want to de-vein them. Let the vegetables burn! You will want to turn them every once in a while to get a lot of the outsides nice and black. Remove from the pan and place in a bowl. Refrigerate until cool. Add remaining ingredients and blend together in a blender or using a hand held Braun.

Enjoy with chips. Your friends will be impressed, this is a real mexican recipe!

Roseola

Poor Maci had a high fever all last week. It started out Monday and ended on Friday. It turned out to be Roseola. It was a pretty sad week for little Miss Maci. Normally a fever can't even keep her down. These pictures show pretty much how her week went. Lots of t.v. and even more sleep.
Here she is Friday when she woke up and her fever was finally gone. Later that evening we found the rash on her stomach, back, and face that revealed to us the cause of her week long woes.
And YES......she is wearing the same shirt in all of the pictures. However, she only wore it the last two days (alright, maybe 3 days).

ATTENTION: Grandma Robin and Grandpa Joe

Get ready because here I come!!!!