Join us every Tuesday for Baby Burrito soft play in the morning 9-12 followed by Burrito Tuesdays from Midday. The full burrito menu served from a pop up Mexican cafe inside Bar Ab, sun Street Hitchin.
follow @cantinacarnitas on Twitter and watch out for #burritonews where secret codewords will unlock secrect menu options and lunchtime deals.
This Bank holiday weekend you can catch us at Benington Lordship http://www.beningtonlordship.co.uk/events/chillifestival.shtml for the annual chilli festival. Excitement is building in the Cantina camp for a number of reasons including the fact we are totally self sufficient power wise after having the trailer fitted with a gas cooker, hot running water and a gas powered bain marie. We also have a generator to power the electrics and the Cantina carnitas inflatable sign! Now we can truly trade anywhere.
Were gonna be serving up the full menu, ice cold soft drinks and were rocking a big gazebo with table and chairs so you can chill with your burrito in the shade for what is promising to be an absolute scorcher of a weekend.
There will also be the chance to purchase Cantina Carnitas t-shirts in three different styles:
Star wars Cantina
Love at first Bite
On it like a Scotch Bonnet
super excited and ready to roll
Matt Cantina
Benington Prep
Catch the CC trailer this coming Saturday 20th July 2013
Chilli cheese dogs and Philly cheese melts alongside the menu.
8 days left of Janathon 2013! And amazing to think that 31 days into a brand new year an activity a day could make such a difference both mentally and physically! I feel fantastic apart from one little niggle that’s really pissing me off: I’m 9 days behind on my blog! Now im new to the concept of Janathon/Junethon but here’s my proposal…
Instead of trying to retrace the lost days of blogging that were quite honestly more of a mixture of swimming and gym work due to the snow I am proposing to carry on my Janathon into Febuary by 9 days. Who knows this may even carry on into deep Feb. Sometimes blogging seems to be the hardest words, even my boss at work had a cheeky word to say on my output yesterday!
I know this isnt strictly cricket in the world of Janathon but it will be good practice for Junethon!!!
Thank you HMV administrators for doing the decent thing and allowing anyone with a gift card to be able to redeem it as of yesterday morning, namely my son who had £60 worth of vouchers and at one point last week I thought I was going to have to ‘buy’ them off him to keep the peace! I’m still not happy about him wanting to purchase Sam fox strip poker for the ps3 but we’ve all got to start somewhere.(used to love that game on the Spectrum 48k pixellated boobies anyone??)
Ok I’m off to the gym as it’s still slippy on the paths in Hitchin not to mention pitch black. I look forward to updating with a picture of an ultra fast 5km in the morning before embarking on a journey to London for a 2 day masterclass workshop with the amazing http://www.wearesevenhills.com/ featuring the superb Micheal Hayman!!!
Matt
Sunday January 13th and were as good as halfway through the longest month of the year, or at least i think its the longest month financially. I cant tell because my legs ache so much. Actually im lying a little bit ive fallen into lazy miles. Today is my mothers surprise 60th birthday party and we have over 30 family members and friends from all over the UK congregrating at a quality pub called The Highlander on tilehouse Street in Hitchin. The bar is free all afternoon and its a set course of roast beef dinner (delectably pink) and chocoloate brownie (delectably gooey) my cousin who i rarely see gets quite drunk and shouts into my ear that i should upload a picture of my MOTHER and tag it MILF. I laugh uneasily and actually question my cousins mental state over his frequent trips to the free bar, now i know why i dont really speak to him as much as i should!!
Lazy miles and a lazy blog post to be honest ive got a meeting now to discuss the planning of a festival in Hertfordshire. Its a shame really because now I can never watch American Pie again wothout feeling a bit sicky, i used to love stifflers mum.
anyway I did 5km this morning- im still chasing the elusive 25 minute 5km and i will be happy.
Matt
The biggest day in Cantina Carnitas history today as we hit the road to look at our first catering trailer. A five hour road trip to Wiltshire on a wet January day doesn’t sound like fun, but as Jeff Cantina and I saddled up the horses we knew in our hearts it was a trip that was going to signal the start of a new chapter of adventure for the Cantina Carnitas crew.
The trailer was sweet, in fact the seller was originally from the Cambridgeshire area and we knew a lot of people between us- in fact she used to work in Streetwise records in Cambridge around the same time i owned a record shop in Hitchin- we probably indirectly spoke to each other about records over the phone years ago! and now were buying a trailer off her. wicked. I will upload photos as soon as I can.
As a result of the road trip i managed to get 5km in yesterday morning. It was one degree and the snow is definitely coming this week. was a bit junk miley but nice to just canter along, the interval training yesterday has stiffened me a little bit!
On the way back i hit a pheasant whilst doing 90mph in the fast lane. The first ever creature I have ever hit in 18 years of driving. It exploded on my bumper and if i had to be honest made the most amazing sound, a bit like hitting a six of the middle of the bat or the metallic echo of marmalising a golf ball. its certainly not something i will be chasing to recreate again….any way next time i will be on the motorway i will be doing 50mph pulling a trailer that the whole world will see!
Donald Pleasance played Himmler in the classic film ‘the eagle has landed’ ditto for Cantina Carnitas: were on the map but mobile.
Matt
This morning i thought i would mix it up a bit and do a spot of interval training. Now I’m the master of Junk miles some days, no let me rephrase that reflective miles! Three children at home and a micro global burrito empire on top of a full time job see can sometimes get a bit too much, so yes I concur that any mile is a good mile gives you solitude and time for thought.
So if found this article on interval training
http://blog.zocdoc.com/is-high-intensity-interval-training-the-best-exercise-fact-vs-myth/
Bottom line is that short bursts of top capacity exercise can ramp up fitness. This is me right here. i marked out a 50 metre dash and did 20 sprints as fast as I could (13 stone in motion is like freight train, bit hard to stop very quickly!) followed by a slow jog back to the start point. This was followed with a nice lazy 2km jog to loosen up.
The result. Very sweaty and endorphintastical little session
oh, and the pulled pork tortas are for tea tonight with lashings of barbecue sauce!
Matt
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