Taco Round Up

We take taco night rather serious in our house. We are both from the west coast where you can get some delicious tacos, so when we moved out east we struggled to find a place to get our taco fix. In fact, once at the seafood counter at the grocery store, I asked the employee what fish she would recommend for fish tacos. She told me she had never ate a taco in her life! I almost invited her over for dinner to try tacos, but I'm not that brave. Anyways, we eat a lot of Chipotle, but we're still looking for a great place. We have 1 more year to find it! In the meantime, Pinterest has offered all sorts of taco inspired dishes. Today is a round up of all kinds of tacos we've tried. Most of them are great, a couple are just so-so.

(Click on the source to go to the recipes)

First up:

Chicken Enchilada Pasta

Souce: Pearls, Handcuffs, and Happy Hour

Pros: Easy, delicious

Cons: CALORIFIC. Like 500 calories in a cup. This is not a diet meal.

Recommend: YES!

mmm Next:

Cilantro Lime Tilapia Tacos

Source: Skinny Taste

Pros: With a couple changes the BEST fish tacos we've ever had, low calorie, easy peasy.

Cons: Can't really think of any.

Recommend: Most Definitely!!

The 2 changes I make are

1. I add cabbage. They needed a bit of a crunch factor.

2. After filling my corn tortilla with the fish mixture I toasted it in a small frying pan to give the tortilla a little substance so that it wouldn't fall apart while I was trying to eat it.

Next:

Easy Lime Chicken Fajitas

Source: Dana Made It

Pros: Easy, lots of pictures, great taste without all the extras

Cons: Taste gets kind of lost if you add lots of extras (avocado, sour cre

am, etc)

Recommend: If you are in the market for a new fajita recipe, sure give it a try.

Sidenote: I like my food plain so I thought they were fabulous. When we had them for dinner my husband who likes to pile extra stuff on thought they were just okay. The next day when he had them for leftovers au natural, he thought the flavors were awesome!

Next:

Quick and Easy Salsa

Source: Mountain Mama Cooks

Pros: Quick

Cons: Not very good. In fact, I threw it away. WAY too tomatoe-y. A possible mistake is I didn't drain the canned tomatoes. It didn't say to, so I just dumped the whole can in. Maybe someday I'll try it again, but probably not. I LOVE me some salsa so I think I'll just stick with what I already know and love.

Recommend: Sadly, probably not.

Last, but certainly not least:

Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili

Source: Skinny Taste

Pros: AMAZING!, Low calorie, Easy

I've made taco soup before and I've made chili before. Both of which are good. However, this is my new favorite, go-to chili recipe. One thing we liked specifically is the use of shredded chicken instead of ground beef. Both me and my husband loved the leftovers just as much or MORE the next day. Seriously, I recommend this one a thousand times over! Please try it next time you need a crock pot recipe.

Cons: Eventually you run out.

Recommend: A thousand times over!!!

Happy Pinning!

Pin Sin

Don't these look DELICIOUS.

They are from Can You Stay For Dinner? and yes, if these are on the menu, I can stay for dinner! They are Baked Butternut Squash french fries. She even includes nutritional information (151 cal. per serving). There are very thorough instructions on how to make these so I thought I'd give them a try.

Here's how mine turned out:
Yeah, not quite the same. I'm not sure where I made a mistake, but I did. It's not her tutorials fault at all. Anyways one thing I do know was wrong was an instruction that said, "Salt to high heaven." When I read this I went and asked my husband to supervise because I ALWAYS over salt everything I touch. He didn't even get up, he just said, "that means a lot of salt." So I salted to high heaven and then back to salt he@#. Even though they looked like the above picture we still tasted them. You couldn't even taste the wimpy squishy squash behind all of the salt. Oh well, live and learn.

How about you try them and see if you can make them better than me.

happy pinning.

Time Wasting

Pinterest.

A new obsession amongst me and some people I know. At first I was hesitant. I mean, seriously, do I NEED another time waster? I already have a handful (okay armful) of tv shows I watch, a basement full of half finished craft projects, and a brand new ipad with games on it. No I probably didn't NEED pinterest.

But I signed up.

And I LOVE it.

Guess what. It's not necessarily a time waster! I pin stuff every single day, but almost every day I do something from my pin board. A hairstyle, a recipe, a craft project, and activity with my kids, an exercise, the list is endless! I even saw a quote once that quite possibly changed my life.

So here it is. Proof that pinterest is not a major time waster. I will blog about my adventures in pin land. Reviews and what not.

To kick it off, I'll share the quote/thought that really got me thinking.

happy pinning.