Tacos

I'm horrible at taking pictures, usually I'm so excited to eat that I totally forget to take a picture of our food before it's gone...so with that said, I'll have to add pictures in later. Sorry!

For our taco meat, I don't use a package of seasoning anymore, my mother-in-law gave me a "recipe" for some yummy meat (basically she just told me what she likes to put in hers and I adapted it to us!) So, here goes...

1 lb. hamburger
1 small onion, diced
1 can diced green chilis
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 cup frozen corn
about a half a bottle of salsa
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 Tbsp. cumin


Cook hamburger with onion, then add rest of ingredients. Because this isn't exact, I would recommend tasting it after it's all cooked to see if you want to add more of anything-sorry to be so vauge. :)

We eat it with cheese and sour cream, and sometimes lettus, and always salsa. My favorite is homemade, but we use whatever we have.

Also, I used to buy cooked tortillas, then I discovered the ones at Sam's Club that you cook yourself and couldn't go back, then I decided to try making them myself. I've tried a couple different recipes. The first one didn't use as much shortening, which is good, but they turned out crispier than I wanted. The second one was awesome. I googled "Cafe Rio tortilla recipe" and that's how I found this one. I have no idea how close it is to the actual Cafe Rio tortillas, but they are yummy anyway!

I found this on SparkPeople:

Cafe Rio Tortilla (at home)
5 cups flour
1/2 cup shortening
1/8 tsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp. salt
1 1/2 - 1 3/4 cup water


Combine dry ingredients, cut shortening into dry mixture. Add water, slowly, until mixture is smooth.


Roll into balls (about the size of Clementine oranges). Roll flat with rolling pin as thin as possible. Put on griddle at 425 degrees, it only takes a few minutes on each side.


Makes approximately 20 tortillas.

Grocery List:
hamburger
green chilis
black beans
frozen corn
tomatoes
onions
lettus
sour cream
cheese