Taco Night!!

Taco Night at our house is the most favorite happiest time.  We try to have it once to twice sometimes more a week.   We make our own beans, rice & meat.  When we do, we make a lot so we can reheat & have a fast meal. 

We use hard shells & soft burrito shells.  Some of us like the crunch & some like the soft.   Sometimes someone will do both!  

For the meat, we use 1 pound of ground beef to 2 pounds of  ground turkey with our own taco seasoning.   Some folks might be wanting to walk away at this point about the turkey.   You can't even taste the different.   Subbing the turkey meat cut cost big time.   Could drop the beef all the way but beef is not all bad.  I got growing men here & they need whats in the beef to be health strong men.  

The beans, we make a couple different ways it depends on what we have on hand when we make it.  We have ground our own dry beans.   That takes time a lot of time to get it very powdery.   Less chunks the better.   Then we would add the hot water & seasoning. Plus we add onions & cheese to it. YUMMY!!!!  If we have refried beans in the can we add seasoning, onions & cheese.  Then there is the dry mix of refried beans you can buy.  That seems to be the favorite.  We still add onions & cheese & seasoning.  We add all the other stuff to make the beans taste better. Let's be honest, beans taste like dirt by themselves. 

The rice we have different ways to make that too!  Just like the beans depends on what we got when it is time to make them.   We have used plain white rice then added whatever we wanted to make it our version of Mexican Rice, which equals cheese & spicy!!   We will use yellow rice package stuff. That is our favorite. We still add stuff to it!!  Then there is the can mexican rice.  Its good but not as good as the yellow packaged stuff.

You can top your tacos with whatever yummy stuff you like.  We use mild sauce brand from Taco Bell.  We have tried different companies, not as good.  We could make our own version.  May be at another time.  We also use, which is hard to find in the stores Taco Bell Bold & Creamy Chipolata Sauce. That is yummy!!!  

You have noticed I did not give the full recipe to anything.  Did that on purpose.   Some family secrets need to be kept.  May be at a later date I share some of the recipes.  Would need to do a family meeting for that.  Keep checking back for updates on Taco Night Recipes!! 
 

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