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[This is Part 4 in our Catering series. To view previous posts, click here.]

Sorry it’s taken us so long (too long!) to get the rest of this series posted. We have said it before, but our lives are a little jam packed! The kiddos have been in full action these days! Over the last month we’ve had vacation bible school, T-Ball, playdates, birthday parties, and Father’s day festivities. Not to mention the usual time we like to carve out for friends, church and TV! Yes…we protect our TV time. Our current TV addiction is Breaking Bad. We are hooked.

Anyways, on to the food..peppers. Quinoa stuffed poblano peppers to be exact. We started with fresh, off the truck poblano peppers from a local Mexican grocery store. Dave had to wait until the very last minute to get these babies. The truck didn’t get there with the peppers until the morning of the party, so he was waiting at the front door when the store opened at 10:00 AM.  Cutting it close! Once all 60 peppers were cleaned and halved we filled them with a warm quinoa salad. We’ve posted a very similar version of this before…it’s one of our favorite ways to use quinoa. It was extra awesome and satisfying when it was stuffed into the peppers, roasted, and drizzled with salsa verde.

Quinoa Stuffed Poblano Peppers

(photo courtesy of The Wedding Format)

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[This is Part 3 in our Catering series. To view previous posts, click here.]

Last Fall, I (Dave) went to a conference for work at Disneyland Hotel (rough…I know). The food that the hotel served was so incredibly good. It was better than any catered food I had ever had before. One of the meals they served was a Mexican-style meal, and it helped to inspire the food we served for the party.  They served a salad with jicama in it, and that was my first time ever eating jicama. If you have not had it before, it is a cool and crunchy root vegetable with a mild taste. We added some jicama to the salad we served and it was the mystery ingredient of the night. We had about 10 people ask us what the “crunchy white stuff” was in the salad.

The jicama, along with the other ingredients, made for a pretty amazing salad! It was crisp with bright and fresh flavors and was the perfect salad for a Mexican-style meal.

Mexican Chopped Salad with Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette

(photo courtesy of The Wedding Format)

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We need to be upfront and honest with all of you. Truth is, we will never be as awesome as this guy:

We know that we are not awesome and we have accepted that fact. We’re ok with it. What we are not ok with is eating mediocre food for the rest of our lives. We tried that once already and hated it. Check out our about page to read more about how we got to where we are today.

There is so much amazing food out there that is just waiting to be consumed by somebody. Our goal is to discover as much of it as we can and share it with all of you. We hope you are entertained by this blog. But even more than that, we hope you are inspired to join us on a journey of discovering awesome food.

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