Spices

Last night Thomas got the urge to make some home-made mexican rice. He loves mexican rice but the last time he tried it home-made his mom had done it up. She ruined it! He was a bit skittish about trying it himself because of this.....but the need for good mexican rice over came that and so last night we started.

He went to the store and got all of the ingredients for the rice and some home-made chicken enchiladas. Once he came hom we got to work on it. I was in charge of browning the rice in olive oil while he put together the enchilada sauce. The chicken was boiling on it's own. We decided that didn't need as much attention.

We both discovered that we love the smell of cumen.

As the spices were stirred and heated, we began drooling. It smelled wonderful already (and, the morning after, our kitchen still smells wonderful!) Getting the enchiladas read in the pan was much harder so we resorted to layering the ingredients, like my cousin, Tiera, does. That worked fine.

Everything came out and tasted amazing. We stuffed ourselves. It was worth every bit of work put into it. The only problem being that I doubt I could eat mexican rice from places like El Pollo Loco again.