bikesbrainsnbarbells:

Adam modified this fabulous recipe by Macheesmo to make these simple and so delicious black bean and chicken tacos. Adam got a smoker for Christmas, so we got a whole chicken from our butcher, Adam quartered it and smoked it, and then we shredded half of it for this recipe and half of it for a chicken and dumpling soup. Since we have a pretty tight grocery budget but try very much to get our meat from sustainable, humane, local sources, so incorporating meals like this (where we’re buying a whole chicken and using nearly every part–we haven’t figured out what to do with the liver and kidneys, but we used the bones for stock, and the neck meat) is perfect for us!

I’ll share the Macheesmo recipe, but boneless skinless chicken breasts are crazy expensive to get from the butcher, so feel free to prepare your chicken another way!

Another note–we ended up with 3 tacos per serving (18 total), so you might want to get some more corn tortillas and plan accordingly! 

We served this with a really simple taco slaw from Smitten Kitchen. See that recipe at the end!

Shredded Chicken Hard Tacos

Yield 12 tacos

INGREDIENTS

• 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breast, poached and shredded (we ended up with a lower yield than this, but supplemented with extra beans)
• 1 15 ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
• ½ red onion, diced
• 1-2 jalapenos, minced
• ½ Cup salsa
• 6 ounces pepper jack cheese, shredded
• 12 corn tortillas
• Salt and pepper
• Olive oil
• Toppings:
• Sour Cream
• Avocado
• Lettuce
• Hot Sauce

DIRECTIONS

1) Add chicken breasts to a medium pot and cover with water by ½ inch. Bring to a simmer and simmer for about 15 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
2) Once chicken has cooled a bit, shred it. Also, dice onion and pepper and drain and rinse the beans.
3) Add 2 tablespoons olive oil to a medium pan over medium heat. Once hot, add onions and peppers and cook until soft. Then stir in shredded chicken, black beans, and salsa.
4) Stir mixture until it’s heated through and season with salt and pepper.
5) On a large griddle or in a large skillet, add a tablespoon of olive oil over medium-high heat. Working with one tortilla at a time, add it to the hot pan and top one half with chicken and shredded cheese. Fold tortilla over to form a taco. Press down on it lightly so it holds it’s shape and move it to the outer part of the pan while you work on a second one. Do as many tacos as you can fit at once without them overlapping.
6) Cook tacos for about 3 minutes per side until tortilla is crispy and cheese is well-melted.
7) Serve tacos immediately with avocado, hot sauce, lettuce, and sour cream.

Lazy Taco Slaw

• 1 bag coleslaw mix or (as used here) 3 cups finely shredded red cabbage and 1 coarsely grated carrot
  
• Coarse salt
  
• Juice of half a lime
  
• 2 scallions, sliced thin
  
• A dollop of mayonnaise, sour cream or plain yogurt
  
• A dash of hot sauce (optional)
  
• ¼ cup roughly chopped cilantro or flat-leaf parsley leaves
  

Toss cabbage mix, salt and lime together in a large bowl; set aside for 5 minutes. It will shrink down a bit. Stir in scallions, then mayo and hot sauce. Adjust seasonings/ingredients to taste, then stir in cilantro leaves. Serve alongside quesadillas or any of your favorite tortilla-clad meals.

wedgesantilles:

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) dir. Steven Spielberg

insecticidics:

karion:

Watch the Netflix doc “Making a Murderer.” Tell me if it doesn’t make you want to murder this attention whoring, shit stain excuse of a person, and wretched member of the bar. If it doesn’t, you are made of stronger stuff than me.

I have been hamstrung and laid up for a few days, on account of tearing my hamstring last week. Apparently, I am an honorary member of the Seahawks’ running game. Anyway, Casey and I binged on this doc over the weekend, and it was extraordinarily horrifying.

I am no stranger to the fallibility of our legal system. It is, frankly, difficult to shock and horrify me with stories of injustice. It isn’t a justice system, to say the very least, and money usually determines outcomes. This, however, is not the typical story of injustice visited upon poor defendants, although that was certainly at play. This is a story about the power of the government to take lives through abjectly, objectively, and startlingly brazen methods, and how this is accomplished through the propaganda and rhetoric that the cops and the courts are the good guys.

This picture of actual human garbage was Brendan Dassey’s attorney. His name is Len Kachinsky. I don’t believe there will ever be justice in this case, so if I am to hope for anything resembling karmic retribution, it is for this man to forever lose his law license, and to be represented by an attorney whose sense of ethics mirrors his own.

FUCK THE POLICE

mysticintothegroove:

Harrison Ford ‘81 denim

yeti-detective:

autumnyte:

When I was younger, I wish someone had told me straight-up that not all adults experience “a calling”. That many of them never find particular purpose in a career. That sometimes, their job is just what pays the bills and they have to seek satisfaction and fulfillment elsewhere. 

Because as an adult, this pervasive notion that there exists a perfect path for everyone, that people should love what they do, and that work is meant to function as a vehicle for fulfilling a person’s grand life destiny is not only inaccurate for many of us, it can be toxic.

The ideal is so ingrained that I have to remind myself constantly I’m not a failure because I don’t adore my job, and because I’m not rocking the world with my work. That is okay. 

Sometimes, work is just work. There isn’t always a perfect career path, magically waiting to be discovered. There might not be this THING you were born to do. Sometimes, you discover that what you really want to be when you grow up is “paid”.

“Hey, I hope your dreams match up with capitalism.”
Guess what, they’re probably not going to.

herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels:

Peter Doig (Scottish, b. 1959), Pink Snow, 1961. Oil on canvas, 243.5 x 198 cm.

limegum:

Dolly Parton, 1970s

bikesbrainsnbarbells:

Easy, yummy, quick dinner. Load up on cucumbers to balance out the heat from the noodles. We nabbed this recipe from Smitten Kitchen.

Takeout-Style Sesame Noodles with Cucumber

Serves 4, generously, and up to double that if served as shown, with lots of cucumber, peanuts and herbs

• ¾ pound dried rice noodles (I used soba noodles)
  
• 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil, plus a splash to loosen noodles
  
• 2 tablespoons Chinese sesame paste or tahini
  
• 1 tablespoon smooth peanut butter
  
• 3 ½ tablespoons soy sauce
  
• 2 tablespoons Chinese rice vinegar
  
• 1 tablespoon granulated or brown sugar
  
• 1 tablespoon finely grated ginger
  
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic (from 1 medium-large clove)
  
• Chili-garlic paste, to taste
  
• ½ pound cucumber, very thinly sliced
  
• ½ cup roasted salted peanuts, roughly chopped
  
• A handful of chopped fresh herbs, such as mint and cilantro, for garnish
  

Cook noodles according to package directions and rinse with cold water to cool. Drain well. Drizzle with a tiny splash of toasted sesame oil to keep them from sticking until dressed.

Meanwhile, whisk sesame paste and peanut butter in the bottom of a small bowl, then whisk in soy sauce, rice vinegar, remaining 2 tablespoons sesame oil, sugar, ginger, garlic and chile-garlic paste to taste until smooth. Adjust flavors to taste. It might seem a bit salty from the bowl, but should be just right when tossed with noodles.

Toss sauce with cold noodles.

Place a medium-sized knot of dressed noodles in each bowl, followed by a pile of cucumber. Garnish generously with peanuts and herbs. Serve with extra chile-garlic paste on the side.