I’m back home to Colorado today, bundled up in my own bed and quite happy about it. I love checking out new places and sleeping in new hotels, but MAN, I love my own bed. Especially since my husband worked out early this morning so I got to starfish out for…2 minutes. Then Jackson woke me up to snuggle. Understandable. It’s been 6 days. Poor lonely guy! I missed that doggy so damn much!
San Diego and La Jolla were awesome and so much fun to visit but I’m ready to have my routine back. After eating all things delicious while traveling, I’m ready some tough gym workouts, some homemade meals, and some major snuggle on the couch time…for the next 2 weeks, then I’m back on the road again. This time, Texas bound!
Speaking of couches, when we moved in our house 2 years ago, we thought we found the perfect couch for our living room. It felt SO comfortable in store and our friends even had the same couch and said it was awesome. Well, they are liars. And I hate them. It’s so not comfortable. The feathers inside the cushions aren’t wrapped in anything so they start sticking out like little needles in your back. And the two cushion couch just isn’t big enough now that Jackson is almost 40 pounds. So he’s always passed out, happy as a clam, and I’m going to bed early because I’m sick of being stabbed 743829190 times in 2 hours. We are so over it and ready to get a new one. And after having an L-shaped couch in our hotel room in San Diego, we are definitely ready for that kind of couch at home. BUT, we are afraid we are going to make the same mistake again and get a couch that we actually hate longterm, but spent so much money on. Ahhhhhhh being an adult is the woooooorst.
Where did you get your couch? Our friends recommended Room & Board and absolutely love theirs, but my husband is having a hard time with that price point. My husband also recommended we get a leather couch and I then went on to say we get a red leather couch and make it a full bachelor pad household! But then figured I was being a bit too passive aggressive. Leather ain’t going down. As much as I would love to just wipe the fur off our couch, I’m just not down for the leather look.
Ok no but seriously – where did you get your couch that you love more than your own bed?
Carnitas Nachos
- Yield: 6-8 1x
Ingredients
- 1 batch Instant Pot Carnitas
For the marinated tomatoes
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- juice of 1/2 lime
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
- pinch of salt
For the nachos
- 2 bags of Siete Sea Salt Cassava Tortilla Chips (or plantain chips or cassava chips)
- 1 jar of Honest Stand Nacho Cheese
- 1 avocado, thinly sliced
- 2 fresno peppers, thinly sliced
- 1 jar pickled jalapeños (or pickle your own)
- handful of fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
- fresh lime wedges
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Make instant pot carnitas and shred.
- Mix together the ingredients for the marinated tomatoes and set in the fridge.
- Layer tortillas on a baking sheet and sprinkle the shredded carnitas. Place in oven to bake for 8-10 minutes, until chips have browned slightly and meat has begun to crisp up.
- Then add the rest of the ingredients: heat up the nacho cheese and pour it on top, however much you prefer. Sprinkle on the marinated cherry tomatoes, then top the rest with the avocado slices, fresno peppers, pickled jalapeños, cilantro and lime wedges for extra pop of freshness on top! (I like to squeeze fresh lime juice on before serving!) then eat up!
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Surprisingly – American Furniture Warehouse! I bought my sectional from there about 4 years ago, and still love it! Everyone compliments it as well, definitely a great couch especially for the price point.
Harborside from Crate and Barrel is the bomb. So comfy and its a slipcover so you can wash it if the pup gets the cushion dirty. Had it for 10 years and still going strong!
https://www.crateandbarrel.com/furniture-sectional-sofas/harborside-sectional-sofas/
Try Article https://www.article.com/. They ship directly to your house and will fully assemble. Awesome price point and super super comfortable. We have two of their couches in our living room.
I second this!! We recently got a new couch from Article and we absolutely love it. So comfy and reasonably priced.
We got our couch from Nebraska Furniture mart. It’s got the chaise option, but you can also convert it to a regular couch if you want (it comes with a spare cushion). And you can rotate the chaise depending on which end you want it on.
I don’t know how far you are from a NFM, but I know they will deliver a lot further than you think. We also got our bedroom furniture there and they delivered it three hours away when we moved. Their prices are always competitive and they have SO MANY options!
Also agree on the leather–I have seen very few cute leather couches but my husband always loves them. Gag.
Juli – to save a little bit, wherever you buy your couch- first see if they have a registry. If so, set it up and make the wedding date like a week later. Usually most placed provide a coupon/discount code for items not purchased on your registry. I just moved to a place and bought all new furniture and this definitely helped.
This is my DREAM couch! Leather doesnt have to be ugly!!!!
if i was a millionaire with a house cleaner who washed my dog every single day, then this would totally work
We ended up buying our couches from AFW because we have two dogs who, as hard as we try to keep them off, LOVE being on the couch. I guess I can’t blame them. We just didn’t want to shell out a ton of money for a nice couch that was likely going to not look so nice in a few years anyway. I feel like AFW has some really good options.
This recipe looks AH-MAZING! Mexican food has my heart. Speaking of, what places here in Denver do you really like? We’re new-ish to the area (lived here for a year) and we have only found one place (Adelitas) that is really good. Everywhere else has been meh.
i don’t go to a ton of mexican places. we love pinche tacos because their tacos are amazing! but la loma is great and d’corazon is awesome!
I hunted and hunted for the perfect couch. I have a 15lb doggy that somehow takes up as much room as a whole human, so the requirement was that the couch could fit my dog, me and my boyfriend. And we can all pass out on it fully stretched out. I am a big fan. http://www.westelm.com/products/urban-3-piece-sectional-h1428/?pkey=csectionals%7Call-sectionals&isx=0.0.5196
Restoration Hardware Lancaster L sectional!! It IS leather (and I don’t buy leather anymore because I’m trying to be animal friendly blah blah blah. . .) but it’s comfortable AF. My husband and I would rather sleep on the couch sometimes and he states that he’d give up his car before he gave up the couch (saying a lot).
We bought this 7 years ago and will never get rid of it. Not sure if the style has changed since then, but we LOVE it!!
I know all the comments are about couches, but can we please talk about the Siete lime chips…. and how I want to cry tears of joy every time I take a bite?! They are just to die for. I love them so much more than regular tortilla chips because of that cassava flavor. I’m so paranoid since you said your Whole Foods was sold out one time that I have to have at least 2 bags in the house at all times and pick up a bag every time I am there. It’s a problem.