Taco's Made At Home

Brookwood

OK, there have been several Taco related threads and many negative points made about all the fast food taco's.

My post here is more about those store bought "Kits" you find in the grocery stores. "Old El Paso" "Ortega" and yes even "Taco Bell" has a kit out. I do occasionally buy them and make my own from fresh burger and all the fix'n's at home. I also, buy those flour or corn tortilla's that are soft and make either tacos or wrapped burrito's out of them.

All I can say is that I have never made a bad taco using my own innards for the fillings and have always preferred doing it this way as to hitting the fast food places for their ready to eat stuff!

Do any of you have a favorite "kit" taco or store bought sauce you like or have any special made at home hints that put your south of the border meal above what most are having to put up with or are settling for?

Rocky Raab

My secret is to leave out the apostrophes.

Quick&Dead

NO NO to store 'kits'

Brookwood

Rocky Raab wrote:

My secret is to leave out the apostrophes.

OK Rocky!

Brookwood

Back in my youth I had the pleasure of watching a family of migrant cherry pickers from Mexico making flour tortillas from scratch. Cooking outside over a campfire on top of a cast iron frying pan. I even got to enjoy a great meal with them and will never forget the experience.

Have since forgotten all the how they did it stuff and have never tried it on my own. From memory, it seemed pretty simple but things are so easy these days to just buy the ones packaged at the store.

The meal way back then was seeming very simple but the tastes and flavors I had will never be forgotten. Never came close to repeating since. Then again, it was a fiesta after a hard days work in the orchards and there was some tequila, mezcal, and beer involved. :P

RobOz

I even make my own seasoning. Screw that keep you thirsty for 5 days packets. I love real south of the border food and make my own mole too.

select-fire

I just use a bag of the nacho chips and go from there.

JasonV

Never heard of a taco kit

gearheaddad

We made Taco's from Scratch just once.
Scratch was our dog.......... :shock: :shock: :roll:

Brookwood

KenK/84Bravo wrote:

select-fire wrote:

I just use a bag of the nacho chips and go from there.

Yes, a bag of Nacho chips, a can of pre-heated Ranchero re-fried beans, a pound of browned ground beef. A large handfull of shredded sharp cheddar cheese, bake at 350? for 20-30 minutes.

Add a large hand full of fine diced onions. An equally large handfull of pickled Jalepeno's. Shredded lettuce and diced tomatoes. Guacamole' and Sour Cream.

Good stuff.

I make those all the time. I call them Nachos, but I may not be using the right name for them. Kind of a Mexican pizza!

Brookwood

Brookwood wrote:

KenK/84Bravo wrote:

select-fire wrote:

I just use a bag of the nacho chips and go from there.

Yes, a bag of Nacho chips, a can of pre-heated Ranchero re-fried beans, a pound of browned ground beef. A large handfull of shredded sharp cheddar cheese, bake at 350? for 20-30 minutes.

Add a large hand full of fine diced onions. An equally large handfull of pickled Jalepeno's. Shredded lettuce and diced tomatoes. Guacamole' and Sour Cream.

Good stuff.

I make those all the time. I call them Nachos, but I may not be using the right name for them. Kind of a Mexican pizza!

Maalox

We make them every week or two and about 1/2 the time we use ground chicken for the protein. Have not made them at home yet but plan to make fish tacos in the near future. I do tend to use the package taco mix to season the protein. We usually top with shredded lettuce or "superfood salad mix", tomatoes, cheddar or Colby jack cheese, some guacamole, hot sauce, sour cream...

Neow that I posted to this thread, I think we need to make these in the next couple of days!

toad67

Rocky Raab wrote:

My secret is to leave out the apostrophes.

I only seen 8, thought there were 12...

No taco kit here. Browned meat of choice with either fried taco shells or burrito shells. Fresh cut veggies with shredded cheese, sour cream and an assortment of taco sauces.....