what the fuck are you doing?
my dude
no
Speaking as the whitest dick I know, good tacos are fucking easy. You don’t have to do this to yourself. Hell, if you really don’t want to cook, jimmy dean sells a bag that you can throw in a skillet and then you just put that shit on a tortilla add cheese and you’re done.
Gods fuck.
ok. Go to the fucking grocery store and get some shit.
Get a tube of ground meat. It can be beef or turkey or sausage, don’t care, go with whatever you feel like, it will be delicious. Get a back of tater tots from the frozen section, this will be your potatoe. Get some pre-diced veg, onion and bellpepper. Cheese. A jar of diced garlic in oil. And here’s the secret bit: panko. Trust me.
One fucking pan. In goes the tots, they can defrost while you make yourself a stiff drink, I recommend a wellerman but you do you. When you start your second drink, drop the tube of meat in there and mix that bitch up. Add some of dat garlic, and if you think you’ve added too much, add just a bit more. Drink the second drink while you wait for that to cook, but don’t forget to stir it the entire time.
If you want to add extra seasonings or sauces for flavor, now’s the time. It’s good without, but you can add whatever you want to make it whatever you want. Depending on what I’m feeling, I’ll add Head Country seasoning with barbaque sauce. Essence of Emerils with spicy sauce is also good. There’s a greek seasoning mix that I like but can’t remember the name of that’s also good, but I haven’t found a sauce to pair with it yet.
When the meat is done, add the veg and panko.
The secret of the panko is that it soaks up the juices but stays crunchy. The juice is where the flavor is, and that juice will drip out of the taco if it’s not held in somehow. Panko. Magic from japan.
A little time and a little stirring later, turn the heat down and slap some of that mush on a tortilla, add some cheese, and eat that delicious shit.
There will be leftovers, and when you reheat some the next day, don’t do it in the microwave, whip that skillet back out and add an egg to that bitch!
TIL about using Panko. Thanks!
Is it culturally anachronistic? probably. Do I care? fuck no, because it’s delicious
Does Lemmy have a “depression meals” community where it would be full of posts like this?
Something like this? https://midwest.social/c/foodcrimes
I should have known better than to click that.
If not, consider it seconded.
pic unrelated
This one time , in my mid 20s. I was dating this guy. He invited me over. Said he was going to make me nachos. He said he had a whole fancy way to make them. Really talked them up.
I get there and he puts chips on a plate. Covers in cooked ground hamburger and yellow cheese. Microwaves it.
(That was all the ingredients) And presented it to me like it was his best.
I mean maybe it was.
I personally don’t like that nasty yellow nacho cheese.
But I ate it anyway and complimented him.
But I was super disappointed. I still remember the event. 15 years ago.
Also I felt bad for him that he apparently didn’t know how to cook. He was like 27 then.
This image somehow brought up all those feelings of disappointment after all the hype and then followed by pity for the creator.
that is one of the stories that it is upvoted because it is both funny and sad :) i feel bad for you but also you have to look at the bright side: you learned something (e.g. to value proper cooking skills for yourself)
15 years later and you still think about him. His plan worked.
She married him so he didn’t die of scurvy.
Didn’t marry him. Tried to find him on fb just now. Didn’t find him. Damn, hope he didn’t die of starvation or food poisoning.
I should have intervened more when I realized how unprepared he was for adulthood.
I got nachos once in a “Mexican” restaurant in Greece.
It was basically this, but instead of the hamburger, it was 4 kidney beans. Literally 4. The cheese solidified back into a sheet that could be lifted off the chips entirely. My partner and I laughed so hard that people were giving us weird looks.
So hey, maybe he’s got a job now as a cook in Greece!
Dear Mexicans, Europe needs you and your culinary skills so bad. Forget the U.S, get your ass to Greece !
Oh, there’s more than just Greece that needs them. But I expect that in terms of climate, I’d rather go from Mexico to an island in the Ionian than Mexico to Helsinki.
I’ve met some hot blooded Mexicans who would call Helsinki mild, reminder Mexico ain’t all hot.
I’d say “Mexican” food sucks in most European countries. I had exactly what you had in several places here. The only thing I’ve ever had that I could call real Mexican food was the tacos I ate from a food stand made by an actual Mexican in Netherlands.
where can I find this muy authenico Mexican food?
I had awesome Mexican food in Ghana. Turns out it was some actual guy from Mexico that was living there and opened a restaurant. It helps that Mexico and all of West Africa have the same spice tolerance, but man, it was great. Cheese, as it turned out, was his logistical block, everything else was available or could get shipped in.
My brother moved to Norway recently from the Southwest US. He misses quality (and spicy) Mexican food every day.
Ghetto nachos have their place. I prefer making them with Doritos or Hint o Lime chips.
Doritos and shredded pepper jack aren’t half bad with some good hot salsa.
ooo I haven’t made them with Doritos before, that sounds great. Gonna try it next time I have munchies.
And a bong
Is there a Food Crimes community on Lemmy?
Thanks. Perfect for when I need to feel grossed out.
Also check out !reactiongifs@lemmy.world since you’re good at em
Thanks!
Wait…wouldn’t midwest food crimes be things like hot sauce and flavor that isn’t cheese or cheese food product?
That’s Mexican’t
There’s Mexican food, there’s also American Ortega style Mexicanish food. Both have a place in my household’s dinner rotation.
This image depicts neither of those meals. This image is evidence from a crime scene.
What is Ortega?
Is Mexico in the room with you?
Not after seeing any of that shit.
I see a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla and “one other thing.” Sounds like a balanced meal to the Trump administration.
Is that broccoli? I thought it was 2 bits of chicken under what looks like some sort of cheese.
Trash serving size on top of it all
I don’t actually know if it is or not, just unclear enough to riff on current Trump admin food guidelines.
you have a bright future ahead of you in for-profit food service at public schools. the only thing missing is the
taco sauceketchup.That should be illegal
Can’t even give the tortilla burn marks to make it taste a little better.
I’d eat it
