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Kicking Myself

May 3, 2012 Amy Leave a comment

I’ve been working on a simple, yet festive dinner menu for Cinco de Mayo.

Let me start by saying that I think we’re going to have to fetch the ice cream maker from the garage rafters and make some Dulce de Leche Ice Cream with Salted Pecans for dessert!

Secondly, I saw these cactus glasses at Dollar Tree a couple weeks ago and have been thinking about them ever since…..went today and they had ONE left!

Wah.

I just think they are so cute and the perfect vessel to hold these gorgeous pink Cactus Pear margaritas…

Jay and I enjoyed sipping these margaritas at Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill in Vegas and they are definitely something worth trying to recreate at home ~ the problem is where to find the cactus pear juice?!?

Tomorrow I will be tracking down some more of these {prickly} glasses and the ingredients to fill them on Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, we have our vibrant papel picado hung across the kitchen and are ready to celebrate!

{as seen here on our trip to Olvera Street over Spring Break}

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Kicking myself that I didn’t pick up a set of those glasses when I first saw them.

I hate when that happens.

Fiestas & Fetes, Flashbacks, Flip Flops On The Rocks, Food

Siete ‘Til Cinco

April 28, 2011 Amy Leave a comment

As a young girl, whenever we visited Old Town’s Bazaar Del Mundo, I remember stepping foot into a little bakery and walking out with a warm churro, bathed in cinnamon sugar and wrapped in white paper.

I remember that and the toy store, Gepetto’s.

As I got older, my memories switched to margaritas and pozole with fresh flour tortillas from Old Town Mexican Café.

Cinco de Mayo is just a week away.

This year I’m going to make these….