On Sunday we decided to get some takeout Chinese food but it was not to be. Our favorite restaurant had decided to use this weekend to renovate their kitchen! What to do? We opted for pizza. Make a phone call and pizza arrives at our doorstep in 1/2 hour.

Seriously it is nowhere near as good as Italian pizza or my hometown pizza from the Jersey shore but it’s pretty okay and so easy!

On to Monday! Today is Memorial Day and John is grilling hamburgers and I have made Texas caviar as a salad. Texas caviar is a two bean salad, black beans and black-eyed peas. All cut to about the same size as the beans are carrots, bell pepper, tomatoes, scallion, corn, celery, and onion. It has a vinaigrette dressing spiked with a few shakes of sriracha or Tabasco and a sprinkling of cilantro.

Finally on Tuesday we had tilapia tacos and Southwest bean salad. We used stand-up taco shells, oven baked tilapia, salsa verde, onions, cabbage, and mango. The Southwest bean salad was a repurposing of the Texas caviar. The Southwest flavor came from adding chipotle powder.

So that is our long weekend plus Tuesday dining. Wednesday I will make stuffed peppers and then we are having a family celebration on Thursday for the graduation from high school of our granddaughter.