Tacos!

There are certain foods that I've eaten for years, thought they were ok, but knew that they could be better somehow. Tacos are the perfect example of such a food.

Tacos used to mean those hard, crunchy corn shells, filled until overflowing with some sort of fake meat, beans, lettuce, cheese, tomato, avocado, or some combination thereof. Those shells were good (they were essentially over sized corn chips), but the taco itself usually fell apart quickly. I would then have to eat the remaining salad of the above ingredients which, while still tasting good, did not feel like eating a taco should.

Then I learned that real tacos use soft tortillas, so that the filling doesn't fall out. Also, they usually taste better than those hard shells, which are often kind of stale-tasting. You can go with either corn or flour here. We tried corn once and it gave Rachel a stomach ache so we don't use them. Plus, we really like the flour ones, even though most recipes you'll read call for corn.

For the filling, we fried Morningstar crumbles with onions and some green pepper. To prepare the tortillas, I filled the bottom of a frying pan with vegetable oil, and sort of deep fried the tortillas really quickly, folding it over as it developed a crust. Each one was only in the oil for about 30 seconds tops.

The final tacos consisted of the tortilla, filling, chopped tomatoes, avocado, shredded iceberg lettuce, cheese, sour cream, and hot sauce.

There's nothing like biting into a slightly crispy, slightly chewy tortilla filled with savory, meaty, sweet, cheesy, rich, crispy filling. Yum.

We also had mojito lemonade, leftover from Shabbos. To make it, make lemonade from a mix, pour in some rum, and put in a bunch of fre

sh mint leaves. We left ours in the fridge overnight, to let the alcohol extract all the minty goodness, and to allow the whole thing to chill, so that no ice would be necessary. It tasted great, but rum can do a number on you.