Meal 2 - Mexican

Everyone needs a taco Thursday every once in a while. Tonight was Mexican night and was it ever delicious. Tacos are so good but are a very rare dinner meal, and after eating tonight I remember why. So first I realized that I had no sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, ground beef, or tortillas. This meant that first, a grocery store run was needed.

Once I returned home, the cooking began. The beauty of tacos is that they really don't take that long to make.  While the ground beef is cooking (approximately 20 minutes), that gives you enough time to prep everything else. Shred the cheese, wash and cut the lettuce, make guac (from scratch of course), put a spoon in the sour cream and warm up the tortillas. The whole prep time of the tacos took no more than 20 minutes, and good thing because I was STARVING. After everything was prepped, my sue chefs (very hungry roommates) and I, set the table and began our taco making. Ou was it ever delicious. You start with one, then another, and next thing you know you've eaten five tacos and are on the verge of exploding. But it was so worth it.

But now the difficult part: the cleanup. Holy guacamole do tacos ever make a disaster. So many dishes were used in the prep, which meant so much to wash. As university students WITHOUT a dishwasher, this was not fun. Especially because we all felt like we were going to explode. But we worked through it together and once the dishes were down, we hit the couch.

Taco night is a family night. There are so many things to prepare, so everyone takes a job, making it super easy. There were a lot of laughs shared around the dinner table, especially when someone overloaded their taco and half of it would end up spilling out.

I would definitely recommend a taco night. It is so delicious and there are so many ways to modify it. You can use different veggies, chicken instead of beef or even go full vegetarian. I will definitely be making these again, but maybe only eat four.



Click here for a classic taco recipe!