On my Instagram account I celebrate Tuesdays as Taco Tuesday. It is actually a lot of fun. When we started doing it, I was getting a lot of advice of where to buy my tacos. I explained to my followers that they were missing out on the fun and history of the taco by buying them from a local restaurant.
Tacos were the creations that the Mexican workers took to work with them. They were their noon meal. What they took to work was what they had left over at home and wrapped it in a tortilla. This meant that it could have been any of their leftovers. I haven’t been able to determine what all the options they had. Perhaps someone will let me know.
What I have been doing is trying many different combinations of food and spices. I even tried the plant based taco filling. It was OK, but I haven’t repeated it. My basic recipe is ground beef, taco seasonings, cheese, salad fixings, and sour cream. However, I have gone on to many other trys. My favorite is chicken, either breast or thigh meat with black beans as a base with all the seasonings, salads, cheese and sour cream. Fried cod is another favorite of mine. I have even threatened to try grits and spam.
When the kids were still living at home, I used to make tacos that they referred to as making your hair sweat. I have since backed off from that amount of heat, and have found that taste is more important. I will continue to play and expirement.
Happy taco Tuesday!!!
