Celebrating at Zocalo
Posted on 26 July 2010
Thank you for all of the wonderful birthday wishes and the nice comments everyone left! It really made my birthday extra special. I am truly blessed with a wonderful family, good friends and now all of my cyber friends!
Zocalo is where I chose to go for my birthday dinner on Friday night. It is gourmet Mexican food and it is fabulous! I don’t usually take photos when we go out to dinner as I want to just relax and enjoy every moment. However the family was agreeable to some photos for the blog as this food is so very special. We had about a 20 minute wait so that was a good time for photos, you can’t say no to the birthday girl!
Daughter Katy, me and son David.
David, Katy and hubby Tom.
Me and hubby Tom.
The food was amazing. We all ordered something different and shared bites with one another. The dish of plantains with black beans and sour cream was my favorite and the first time I tried plantains. I loved the combination of sweet plantains with the earthy flavor of the black beans and the cool sour cream on top. I have to find a light recipe to prepare this dish as I was hooked by the first bite! The food and service were top notch.
Platanos, plantains with black beans and sour cream. Pan seared salmon potatoes and green beans.
Baked Tacos de cazuela Chicken enchiladas Salsa roja
El burrito with carnitas. Salmon Cozumel
The restaurant is located in the heart of Midtown and this beautiful Victorian home was up the street from Zocola’s. It looks like a doll house with all the cute detail work. I would love to see inside! I used my new camera with it’s incredible zoom to get this photo.
We came home and enjoyed the Fallen Chocolate Souffle Torte that Katy baked for me. It deserves a post all of it’s own! So check back to learn about my favorite low fat dessert cook book and this amazing recipe!
My family gave me the perfect birthday card and I just have to share it with you. What a difference living healthy makes. I actually had this kind of good day, skinny jeans and all!
Tami
What is your favorite ethnic food? Mine of course is Mexican.
24 responses to Celebrating at Zocalo
Looks like a perfect birthday! I always wish I could make a thumbs up sign when I read a fun post like this.
Gorgeous family and delicious food! What an amazing birthday! Glad you enjoyed it
What a classy looking family. You must be very proud of them and I KNOW they are proud of you. I can see it in their eyes! So glad you had a great birthday.
My favorite ethnic food is Japanese.
Thanks for sharing about your fabulous birthday. What great family pix, too. My favorite ethnic is Thai. I’m building a repertoire of recipes so that I can enjoy healthy Thai at home.
Tish you will have to share some of your healthy Thai recipes on your blog.
You have such a beautiful family! I had fancy mexican on Saturday – so good! I love all ethnic food but if I had to choose I’d say mexican!
I too love Mexican best. Hubbend cooked me my favorite Mexican meal or my birthday. I was shocked, it takes me three days to get it all done. I’m so glad you had a fantastic birthday too!
I love the card, and I can’t wait to see your recipe. That looks delish.
My favorite ethnic food is Mexican also. That’s what we’re having for dinner tonight
You look GORGEOUS in your pictures!!! Seriously…gorgeous!!!
Thank you Lisa, you are so nice!
I love the card! That’s so perfect and it says, “We understand you Mom!”. Dinner looks yummy and I’m glad you enjoyed your day with your good looking family!
Dawne you are so right. They really do seem to get it!
I had to skip the pics because MEXICAN FOOD IS MY FAVORITE! lol YUM! We have a place down the street that I love and NEVER GO TO! I know it’s a splurge meal and I just can’t see going without it being …my birthday perhaps?? lol
So glad you enjoyed your family celebrations!
Darn – lost that comment because I just can’t get the captcha right!! I hope you don’t get this twice.
You have a beautiful family; thanks for sharing the photos. And your son looks soooo tall! No favorite ethnic, I like too many and none of them good for me.
And thanks for the great comment today. It made me remember that you had LOST weight on your last trip:)
What a wonderful birthday you had!! Great pictures!You have a very good looking family & oh my, how tall David is!!
My favorite{or one of many} ethnic foods is Greek! Then Italian, then Mexican!
Oh yum on all the ethnic foods you like Carol.
David is so tall! I even had some heels on and he still towered over me.
What a wonderful celebration and pics.. beautiful!!!! That dessert looks delish! You look great & the jean fitting, how much better can it get!
What a great day you had. You are beautiful and I am sure you fit into a lot of skinny jeans now.smile.
Oooh, those dishes look yummy! I’m so glad you had such an excellent night out with family.
I wonder if a plain yogurt topping on the plantains/black bean combo would be good. The cool, rich creaminess might be nice complement…
Great idea about the yogurt topping Cammy.
What an amazing birthday you had – and what a nice family outing. Great pictures.
The food looked so good – It makes me want to say Mexican is my favorite ethnic food, too, but we don’t have a really good place nearby – so I’ll say Italian and Greek.
I tried plantains when we went to Puerto Rico a couple of years ago – very interesting componant in many of the dishes there.
Fantastic pictures.. You look so happy… You have a lovely looking family…Happy belated birthday to you…. Oh and the food looks so darn yummy…. ARGGGGG
My favorite ethnic food is Italian! I like Mexican too. You look wonderful!
Wow, that food looks delicious! I would love to try that plantain and black bean one! Yummy!
Congrats! And I loved that card too!
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