My Beef with Tacos

I HATE TACOS.

Please, hear me out before you click out of this page and erase me from your Google Reader.

It’s not all tacos.  Just most.  Something about taco meat/seasoning just rubs me the wrong way.  I blame Taco Bell and their “30% beef” taco meat.  Shrimp tacos, veggie tacos, pancake tacos — these are all welcome in my life.

So what about taco salad, you ask?

LOVE.

And since I’m probably passing through Santa Fe and may be eating a taco salad as we speak I thought I’d share some homemade taco salad love with you all.

This taco salad has 0% beef and I’m okay with that.  Mashed beans with walnuts are better anyways.

In the mix:

• salad greens
• avocado
• black beans + walnuts
• carrots
• bell peper
• tomato

Oh and “croutons” aka socca crackers because I am obsessed and have made at least three different versions in the past three weeks.  In fact, a container of my most recent patch might be sitting right next to me as I write this…

Dressing = chopped tomato, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, chili powder and lime juice thrown in the food processor until it reached dressing consistency (which is like a total of 5 seconds, in case you were wondering).

Taco salad never tasted so fresh 🙂

Is there a food you just can’t stand?  How do you feel about taco salad?