Settled in Albuquerque

 Albuquerque, NM

*not a selfie

Eating Local

Today we finished getting settled, did some more grocery shopping, and got take out for dinner. 

We started out waking up from a great sleep.  It is so quiet in the neighborhood we are staying and the temperature is perfect for sleeping.  It's going to be a relaxing month I think.

We finished getting organized and unpacked and there is plenty of space for our stuff which is great.  Later in the afternoon we went grocery shopping at El Super again.  Donna picked a few recipes off newmexico.org's recipe list.

We needed New Mexico Red Chilis for a dish and these looked close to the Google search.  Later I found the real chilis and put these back.  The downside is we had to buy about 5x the amount we needed.  I guess we have a month to use them all.

November 1st is Dia De Los Muertos and we are going to get one of these to celebrate.  Eat local!

We also bought 5 for $4 pastries for "lunch" when we got back.  They were great.

When we got home we quickly realized that nothing we were making was going to be done in time for dinner.  We (I say we but Donna ended up doing most of the work) had to make broth and green sauce which took a few hours.  We decided to get take out for dinner tonight.  I drove across town to get great Mexican food at El Paisa Taqueria.  It is a cash only place and the food is very cheap.

There was a nice man selling things in the eating area of the restaurant

So I bought fresh chicharrons.  

The rest of the evening was cooking, eating great Mexican food, and watching PBS.  So far we are having a very relaxing stay which is needed because Denver was GO GO GO.

The end result of our all day cooking is a double recipe of green chili sauce for 2 recipes we have planned.

The blue counties are all of the new counties for this trip.  We hope to grab a few more surrounding counties before we leave and we will get 2 more on the way out in November.

Our New Mexico Highway Map is getting some miles too.  We are up to 443 miles in NM now.

That's it for today.  If you missed There's A New Mexico, check it out.  Homer Simpson was right, there is a new Mexico.