Beef Taco recipe

[Saviolo]

Feeling a little under the weather when I made this, so please forgive if the voice over isn't quite as upbeat as usual. Anyway, another super customizable recipe, this time we're making tacos with ground beef. Works very well to use a 80/20 lean for this. You do want some fat, because, as you'll see, it's what we use to fry the diced onion and poblano pepper. There are lots of different taco recipes, of course. Beef, chicken, pork, tinga, mole, chorizo, etc... this is just one possibility, and we'll be looking at some other ones in the future for sure.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. That sounds delicious.

I usually make beef tacos with diced onion, garlic, jalepeno, and some chili powder and cumin.

Spoon it over corn tortillas and top with queso fresca, cilantro leaves, tomato, and crema.

Similar to what you posted, but a little different.

[DonaldsRump]

2. Yesterday was National Taco Day!

Will use this for ....thanks!

[Saviolo]

3. Entirely accidental!

But I'll take it!

We're super close to 200 subscribers, we just need about 8 more. Maybe a little social media piggy-backing will help.

[becca da bakkah]

4. Dude! Spring For a Bigger Pan Already.....

...you can frequently find cast iron skillets at thrift stores/Goodwill. Or Lodge makes new CI skillets, reasonably priced and manufactured in Tennessee, not China. Crowding the meat and the onions together like that only steams the vegetables, not sautes them.

Other than that, it looks very delicious. And extra points for using bacon grease. I'm so glad to see this low fat nonsense coming to an end. Fat is where the flavor is! Thanks for posting. Hope you're feeling better.

[Saviolo]

5. There are other practical considerations :)

We rent, so we don't have control of the type of stove we have. The burners on the stove we have are actually pretty small, and that's the biggest pan we have that we can effectively use on the stovetop. Any bigger and it gets really troublesome. Anyway, we make do.

And bacon grease: Yes. Yes yes I mean, it makes our food non-vegetarian but, especially for Mexican and Tex-Mex, it adds an indispensable flavour.

[becca da bakkah]

6. Ah. I See. I Hadn't Considered That You Rent....

....In that case, I admire your ingenuity. Sorry if I came off sounding bossy. Have you considered buying an electric skillet? They give you more options when you have too many pots/pans to fit on a small stove. I not only have a small stove, but a small kitchen. Living hell for a foodie cook like me! I'm lusting for a Viking Range, but there's no room to install it even if I could afford one.

Let me tell you my "God, NO!" story. Last week I was holding something heavy to put in the fridge, which has French doors. The one on the left wasn't open all the way. It slammed against my arm, causing me to jerk the heavy item up, which hit the top door shelf. Three jars of bacon grease crashed to the floor and broke. I was nearly as mad at losing all that lovely bacon grease as I was at cleaning up the glass all over my kitchen floor.

I felt like I lost 3 dear friends!