Fast Crispy Tacos

**aging one** · 14-06-2011, 03:52 PM

I have put up Mexican food before but the other night the kids and I made up tacos both beef and chicken and it was fast and easy. They had brought back 6 dozen corn tortillas and we were ready to get frying. Made up some salsa, and served with refried beans as well.

First you have your beef and chicken cooked off with Mexican spices.

Then you have to fold and fry at the same time, the kids got good at this.

End up with something like this.

we made 10 for the three of us.

Looked like this when served. You have your salsa, lettuce, chips, chicken, beans and cheese and the taco shells. We hide the beef from the wife just to make life easier.

A close up of a kids taco.

The next day while I was at work they got hungry for Mexican again and made their own lunch, tacos and a quesadilla

Nice job by 13 year olds, and now they are as addicted to Mexican food as I am. Hell they had friends and relatives help them "borrow" over 250 of the taco bell seasoning packets while they were home alone on holiday.

**jandajoy** · 14-06-2011, 04:26 PM

Ole !

Nice one, cheers.

**SEA Traveler** · 14-06-2011, 04:32 PM

once again AO has done a supurb pictorial tutorial for cooking. out of ammo otherwise I'd green. I think I'll do a tuna sald this evening.

**nclslpn374** · 22-06-2011, 09:52 AM

Is there a restaurant here that serves those?

**aging one** · 22-06-2011, 10:27 AM

Many

Let me google that for you

**bobo746** · 22-06-2011, 10:38 AM

Gotta stop reading your kitchen threads AO keep getting hunger pains.

**nigelandjan** · 22-06-2011, 11:45 AM

Good effort mate to post this lot up ,, but have to be honest I,d have to be VERY hungry to eat one of these , but my eldest son lives on em !

**aging one** · 22-06-2011, 12:03 PM

To each his own mate, I used to be the one that could eat Mex everyday, now the kids have talked me into this exact meal again tonight.

**nigelandjan** · 23-06-2011, 12:31 AM

Very good to see your children getting into the ol cooking thing , I allways used to love it , infact doing anything practical ,, I think I was about 12 when I was supervised by my Dad taking the head off his old Austin A40 removing the valves + springs + spending all weekend re seating the valves by hand into the head ,loved it . Had to wash the ol hands well before going home to make the scones for tea though

**Hampsha** · 23-06-2011, 09:13 PM

Looks great, Aging. Thanks for sharing. Of all the foods I miss from back in the states, Mexican food is what I desire the most. I hope to make some guacamole and nachos with my students later this term. I'll have to find some tortilla nacho chips in BKK.

**Rural Surin** · 23-06-2011, 09:28 PM

Though it looks appealing and I'm sure your crunchy tacos are grand, AO....
But soft tacos are the only way to go.

CHEERS!

**Bexar County Stud** · 24-06-2011, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

But soft tacos are the only way to go.

Agreed. Bexar county born & raised & I don't comprehend shell tacos.
However, AO's shells look pretty good, almost like a San Antonio puffy taco.
What are puffy tacos? A San Antonio original, I've never seen 'em anywhere else:

Puffy Taco Recipe

**aging one** · 24-06-2011, 03:37 PM

You guys I agree with the soft and thats the way we have always gone. But in the course of getting over 400 packets of taco bell sauce while on holiday they also discovered the old 4 pack of crispy beef tacos for 4 bucks. Never before had they eaten those.

So for now they are crispy, I also have 5 dozen of the large fajitas style flour tortillas they brought back.

This is my favorite taco.

**Bogon** · 24-06-2011, 04:38 PM

^ Looks great as usual AO.

Like your dessert of a sleeve of smokes and lighter at the ready for when you finish your dinner.

**aging one** · 24-06-2011, 04:54 PM

Thanks photobucket my friend, and Bexar tell me more about San Antonio puffy tacos. I am heading to google now.

**Satonic** · 25-06-2011, 10:44 AM

^ That to me looks more like a kebab than a taco? I wonder how you would tell the difference?

**aging one** · 25-06-2011, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by Satonic

^ That to me looks more like a kebab than a taco? I wonder how you would tell the difference?

The country you are in!!

Its a special type of Taco. Cut off the spit the same a kebab. If you see it in the middle east its a shararma, in the UK a kebab, in Greece a gyro, but in mexico tacos Pastor. Pastor is the spit roasted pork, with pineapple.

**Humbert** · 25-06-2011, 02:11 PM

^They have one of those rigs in front of Sunrise Tacos on Sukhumvit. Tacos Pastor, yum!

**Satonic** · 26-06-2011, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by aging one

Originally Posted by Satonic

^ That to me looks more like a kebab than a taco? I wonder how you would tell the difference?

The country you are in!!

Its a special type of Taco. Cut off the spit the same a kebab. If you see it in the middle east its a shararma, in the UK a kebab, in Greece a gyro, but in mexico tacos Pastor. Pastor is the spit roasted pork, with pineapple.

Shows just how little I know

Sure tasty what ever they are called.

Have seen them around where I live now but in a bar/restaurant that never has more than 2 or 3 customers a night so I worry about how old the meat is and it constantly being cooled / reheated.

I'll wait for the odd trip to bangkok to satisfy my cravings.

**Bettyboo** · 26-06-2011, 02:28 PM

Yummy.

Fat Crispy Tacos, mmmm

**English Noodles** · 28-06-2011, 01:34 AM

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**English Noodles** · 28-06-2011, 01:36 AM

**English Noodles** · 28-06-2011, 01:37 AM

Nice tacos.

**danno5** · 30-06-2011, 12:52 PM

damm, my mouth was actually watering reading this!

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