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Frankie & Annette Think You Should Try This Colorful Taco Salad

6/26/2014

 
Hi Hi Hi There!!!




This magazine cover makes me want to ride my bike
over there, wherever this house is,
and
knock on the door
and ask to see the rest of the house.

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Except
 the only bike I have to ride over there
would be this one.

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And it probably hasn't been ridden for 30 years.






I'm a sucker for bright, shiny things though,  like colorful magazine covers.


And

 Taco Salads.
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Now I know everyone has their own version of
Taco Salad
with their choice toppings.




I just happen to like an array of choices for toppings.

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H
ere's the fixins I use for my yummy Taco Salad.

(I am missing the tortilla chips and black beans in this picture.)
Don't forget either one, they add nice depth and crunch.

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I FORGOT THE BLACK BEANS FOR THIS PICTURE! DON'T FORGET THE BLACK BEANS! AND TORTILLA CHIPS!
Do you see the "cilantro" over there, on the
right hand side of the counter?
In that small clear dish on top of the olive container?




Well............................that isn't "cilantro"....


It's
a


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It's really parsley. 


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Okay,
if you're not thoroughly grossed out by my silliness
(and apparent ineptness to clean out my produce drawer *sigh*)


we can continue on............






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Anyhoo,
S
eason up
those chicken breasts with Taco Seasoning and grill these babies up.


This is the recipe for the taco seasoning mix I make.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Taco-Seasoning-I/Detail.aspx
If I'm in a total hurry, I just use the spice packets they sell in the store.





Now fry or bake up the best food ever created in life: (but only if you are not a vegetarian or vegan)...
BACON!!!!



Then start pan roasting the corn.
Take the ears of corn and scrape the kernels off....




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Throw the kernels
all in a heated pan with canola or
olive oil.

Roast until you get a nice brownish color color going on. Throw in some salt and pepper.






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Try to keep your hands,
forks,
spoons,
your hands,
your hands out of this pan of corn while it's pop, pop, poppin' away!




See! ALL THE HARD WORK IS DONE!!! Now all you have to do is chopchopchop
up the following....

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bell peppers,
jalapeno, 
red onion, 
green onion,
cilantro, 
avocados, 
tomatoes,
olives

olives.

Oops, conveniently I do not have a picture of such laborious work. Probably because I was chopping up the crap real quick to get the feast on the table!






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So here's all the goodness set out ready to be plated up.

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Now I like to mix up some Ranch dressing with some good old salsa as the dressing....

Now plate up that salad!!!
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Throw that ranch and salsa on!

This is so tasty!!!

Here's the toppings I use...
Angie’s Taco Salad
Courtesy www.turnkeyqualitycars.com

Ingredients
  • · Seasoned, grilled chicken breasts
             Use a taco seasoning packet or…
            Taco Seasoning Recipe:
            1 Tbsp chili powder
            ¼ tsp garlic powder
            ¼ tsp onion powder
            ¼ tsp crushed red pepper
            ¼ tsp dried oregano
            ½ tsp paprika
            1 ½ tsp ground cumin
            1 tsp sea salt
            1 tsp black pepper
  • ·         Lettuce…romaine and spinach, chopped and thrown together
  • ·         Tortilla chips
  • ·         Your favorite salsa
  • ·         Ranch dressing
  • ·         Sour cream
  • ·         Black beans, rinsed and drained
  • ·         Avocado, sliced or chopped
  • ·         Green Pepper, diced
  • ·         Red pepper, diced
  • ·         Red onion, diced
  • ·         Green onion, chopped
  • ·         Bacon, fried up crispy, and chopped
  • ·         Roasted corn, pan roast in canola oil
  • ·         Cilantro, chopped
  • ·         Black olives, chopped
  • ·         Jalapeno, diced
  • ·         Shredded cheese, your choice, I like to use pepperjack
  • ·         Tomatoes, chopped

Prepare and set everything out in separate bowls.

Encourage everyone to make their own unique salad.

Clean-up is easy…throw paper towels or plastic wrap over leftover bowls and stack in fridge for the next meal.

Enjoy!

Okay, you can print this recipe off if you click on that little, tiny, gray, Download File thingie right below this.....look how tiny that is!!!
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angies_taco_salad.docx
File Size: 15 kb
File Type: docx
Download File





Before I sign off here today, with yet ANOTHER-ROUND-OF-RAIN
coming in....

a couple of people have something they wish to say .....

















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The sun will come out tomorrow!





Okay, that's probably the wrong movie for that song,

but here's Frankie and Annette singing
I Think, You think....
bet you'll be humming this the rest of the day :):)






Okay kiddos,
have a great rest of the day!!

Talk at ya soon!







Kimberly K
7/10/2014 04:31:40 am

I'm hungry now looking at this. It is sooooo good and you make it up perfectly. Then of course you served it up with a Savignon Blanc....Um hm,,,,,,,,,,,,I'm just sayin......it is the best! Lots of work but when you present all of these wonderful things...it's so worth the while (well for us eating it)!


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