{"id":686,"date":"2010-02-25T21:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/02\/25\/do-you-like-mexican-food\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T21:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:11:54","slug":"do-you-like-mexican-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/02\/25\/do-you-like-mexican-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you like Mexican food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do, I love it actually.&#160; I have joked before that I was born a Mexican in a former life.&#160; I am only halfway kidding when I make this joke!&#160; I love to eat Mexican food of all varieties.&#160; I have never really met much Mexican food that I didn&#8217;t like.&#160; I am always looking for a good Mexican dish to make at home and that is why I was so excited to find <a href=\"http:\/\/mealplanningmommies.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/friday-make-ahead-beef-chimicangas.html\">this<\/a> recipe.&#160; A classic twist on a Mexican favorite:&#160; the Chimichanga!<\/p>\n<p>Like I do with most recipes, I changed this one a bit.&#160; I added some saut\u00e9ed peppers and onions with garlic to the filling.&#160; I also added in a few jalapeno slices to kick it up a notch!&#160; I also used some homemade salsa in the filling.&#160; I served with guacamole and white cheese sauce.&#160; I ended up making the filling the night before and then creating the Chimichangas the next.&#160; This worked really well with a 9.5 month old crawling around.&#160; These were yummy fresh and straight from the freezer.&#160; It made like fifteen, so there were plenty for future meals.&#160; I am becoming a huge fan of freezer cooking!<\/p>\n<p>We had them for dinner tonight with Mexican rice, black beans with corn, and white cheese dip.&#160; Delicious!&#160; Top it off with a little Ben and Jerry&#8217;s Cherry Garcia and you have a near perfect meal!&#160; Since I made this in stages I forgot to take pictures, but when you go check out the recipe you will see some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do, I love it actually.&#160; I have joked before that I was born a Mexican in a former life.&#160; I am only halfway kidding when I make this joke!&#160; I love to eat Mexican food of all varieties.&#160; I have never really met much Mexican food that I didn&#8217;t like.&#160; I am always looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,62],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","tag-chimichanga","tag-mexican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}