2025 Summer 1 – Saturday

June 21, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 1, Meal Out, Weekly Dinner

🍽️ The Menu

• Main Dish
  • Lunch out at San Jose’s Mexican Restaurant — Carol had the chimichanga with queso, Steve ordered the stuffed burrito.
• Side Dish
  • Warm tortilla chips and fresh salsa that didn’t stand a chance. (A second basket may have mysteriously appeared.)
• Embedded
  • Chicken soup at home — the quiet backup after the frozen pizza experiment flopped. Palermo’s Primo Thin Pepperoni just didn’t cut it.

📸 Final Plate

🔍 About the Meal

Lunch was everything it needed to be: flavorful, filling, and satisfying enough to ruin dinner plans — in the best way. The chips came out warm (which should honestly be a law), the salsa was fresh, and both entrees were served piping hot and generously portioned. Steve’s stuffed burrito was loaded; my chimichanga was cheesy and crisp. We left happy and totally uninterested in cooking again that day.

Dinner was… fine. Steve made a frozen pizza, but I wasn’t into the brand. I ended up grabbing a bowl of chicken soup, which was exactly the quiet comfort I wanted. Dessert never made it out of the fridge — maybe Sunday.

📷 Photo Journal

📝 Saturday Notes

I need to remember this brand of frozen pizza is a hard pass.

The cupcakes never got touched. Still in the fridge, looking hopeful.

If the chips are warm and the burrito is stuffed, dinner is optional.

🎬 Behind the Scenes

We left San Jose’s full, relaxed, and convinced dinner wouldn’t be necessary. Steve’s effort to salvage the evening with a frozen pizza was sweet, but… no. A couple bites in, I quietly reheated some soup and let it be. It’s always the unplanned meal that ends up saving the night.

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