Slow-cooker Shredded Beef Tacos

From my Slow Cooker Recipes book, this slow-cooker shredded beef is very similar to Chipotle barbacoa. Beef chuck roast is cooked with a sauce made from guajillo chiles, jalapeños, onion, garlic, oregano, cumin, mustard seed and allspice, with a little vinegar and Worcestershire. Use it in burritos, tacos, potato chip nachos, on super nachos, or on…

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Potato Taquitos | Tacos Dorados de Papa

Potato Taquitos Recipe video – scroll down for recipe Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. If potato taquitos sound like a weird thing to eat, I assure you they’re perfectly normal. Creamy mashed potatoes, a little butter, some onion, some seasoning, rolled up in corn tortillas and fried. Called tacos dorados…

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Portobello Mushroom Tacos

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Portobello mushroom tacos video (scroll down for recipe) I would say that these portobello tacos are a great vegetarian taco alternative … but they’re so much more than that. To hell with being an alternative, these are stand-alone delicious. Smoky, chewy portobello mushroom strips, creamy avocado, crunchy tart cabbage, and a tomato-chipotle salsa. Goodness gracious,…

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Taco Pizza

Taco Pizza Recipe Video (scroll down for printable recipe) Tacos and pizza are probably the best-selling food in the US by now. I would wager that they may even beat out burgers. So I can only imagine the kind of hubbub and bedlam that’s gonna go down when this taco pizza recipe gets published. I’ll…

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Taco Salad

Taco Salad Tortilla Bowls! (scroll down for printable recipe) No rinky-dink taco salad, this one is served up in a flour tortilla bowl just like at Taco Bell. Except you make it at home, without the questionable ingredients. You can still have it with Taco Bell sauce, though, if you find a few packets in…

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Carne Asada Tacos: How to Grill Like a Mexican, Part 1

Carne Asada Tacos Video (scroll down for printable recipe card) One thing that our friend Carlos and I can always always talk about is food. We both love to eat and cook and learn about food, all kinds of food, from all around the world. Carlos is also a seasoned grill-master and pretty much always brings…

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Ice Cream Tacos

As if anyone needed a reason to eat more ice cream. Remember ChocoTacos? Of course you do. You’re a human and you love chocolate and ice cream and consonance. These ice cream tacos are kind of like ChocoTacos but without the chocolate and with cinnamon instead. Unlike ChocoTacos, these ice cream tacos are actually really…

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Fish Tacos Recipe

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Fish Tacos Recipe Video (scroll down for recipe) My first ever remake! I’ve updated my fish tacos recipe slightly, jazzing up the slaw and adding a chipotle sauce to go on top. I also have moved away from tilapia and instead have been making these with cod or snapper. Any firm white or medium-bodied fish…

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Breakfast Tacos: A Beginner’s Guide to Austin Breakfast Tacos

Breakfast Tacos Scrambled Eggs

What is a breakfast taco? Despite the ever-growing popularity of breakfast tacos around the nation, I realize there are a few (or many) sad pockets of the US where breakfast tacos have yet to make a stand. In fact, the residents of these areas might not even know what I mean when I say “breakfast…

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