When life throws you limes, you make margaritas?
Sunday brought some limes and lemons to my life so Monday I went and had a margarita at the Jalapeno Tree. Before we left, I didn't know where I was going because I left the planning up to my friend. To my delight she wanted Mexican food so to Longview, TX we went.
The Jalapeno Tree is a chain "Mexican" (it's more Tex-Mex) restaurant with about 15 locations in East Texas. The Marshall location was large, vibrant, and as spicy as a restaurant with jalapeno in the name could be. Festive large murals filled the walls including a giant mural of Elvis in the banquet room. If that isn't "spicy", I don't know what is. Red, green, and blue clothes were on the table and everywhere you looked there …show more content…
I asked the server what type of sauce it was and she said "green and good". She wasn't lying either. It was creamy, not too spicy, flavorful, and yum. That sauce was so good, I ordered a small one to go. I Googled "Jalapeno Tree green sauce" and found several copycat recipes that include avocado which would explain the smoothness, garlic, and other spices.
Like any good Muse of Cuisine and Libation would do, I perused the drink menu and decided on a prickly pear margarita and my friend ordered some blue drink. My drink was a tad sweet for me, but it wasn't bad. Yet again, Jalapeno Tree decided to drop some "fun" in our drinks with some wacky straws.
For our meal we decided to share a large Deluxe Chicken and Beef Nachos which came with beans, sour cream, guacamole, jalapenos, tomatoes, cheese, and more cheese. People! This was a mound of ooey, gooey, yet crunchy deliciousness. I never really go for nachos in restaurants because the chips always end up soggy. Even though these were covered with cheese, meat, and beans, the chips remained crunchy. This was some type of black magic going on in the Jalapeno Tree. We weren't able to finish all of them because we didn't wear our #FattyNotFoodie pants that
Sunday brought some limes and lemons to my life so Monday I went and had a margarita at the Jalapeno Tree. Before we left, I didn't know where I was going because I left the planning up to my friend. To my delight she wanted Mexican food so to Longview, TX we went.
The Jalapeno Tree is a chain "Mexican" (it's more Tex-Mex) restaurant with about 15 locations in East Texas. The Marshall location was large, vibrant, and as spicy as a restaurant with jalapeno in the name could be. Festive large murals filled the walls including a giant mural of Elvis in the banquet room. If that isn't "spicy", I don't know what is. Red, green, and blue clothes were on the table and everywhere you looked there …show more content…
I asked the server what type of sauce it was and she said "green and good". She wasn't lying either. It was creamy, not too spicy, flavorful, and yum. That sauce was so good, I ordered a small one to go. I Googled "Jalapeno Tree green sauce" and found several copycat recipes that include avocado which would explain the smoothness, garlic, and other spices.
Like any good Muse of Cuisine and Libation would do, I perused the drink menu and decided on a prickly pear margarita and my friend ordered some blue drink. My drink was a tad sweet for me, but it wasn't bad. Yet again, Jalapeno Tree decided to drop some "fun" in our drinks with some wacky straws.
For our meal we decided to share a large Deluxe Chicken and Beef Nachos which came with beans, sour cream, guacamole, jalapenos, tomatoes, cheese, and more cheese. People! This was a mound of ooey, gooey, yet crunchy deliciousness. I never really go for nachos in restaurants because the chips always end up soggy. Even though these were covered with cheese, meat, and beans, the chips remained crunchy. This was some type of black magic going on in the Jalapeno Tree. We weren't able to finish all of them because we didn't wear our #FattyNotFoodie pants that