March 2010
3 posts
GOOD Magazine - "Your Taco, Deconstructed" →
“The goal was to map the local “tacoshed,” which, much like a watershed, establishes the geographical boundaries of a taco’s origins—the source of everything from the corn in the tortilla to the tomatoes in the salsa.
By thoroughly understanding what it takes to make a taco, the class hoped to become “better able to propose and design a speculative model of a holistic and sustainable urban...
Sorry I missed Tuesday. I just realized this morning was Thursday already. Without the Olympics on tv, it is like time has no meaning for me any more. Also, it is pledge drive week at the public radio station where I work, which is always pretty ex-ci-ting.
Next week, I will probably be returning with a recipe. I am going on holiday for a bit later this month, though, and after that I am...
February 2010
13 posts
Taco 018: USA #1 Tacos
image: Oleai’s Tacos by Kevinv033
It should be said that I am very into the winter Olympics. So, tonight, I wanted my tacos to go along with the Olympics-viewing party that was gathering around the telly - but what goes best with hockey, bobsled, and Nordic combined? What tacos can you feel good eating while tiny girls in tiny getups jump around on ice?
I thought about something...
Meyer Lemon Margaritas
photo: 3liz4 via Flickr
Imagine you find yourself with 2.5kg of meyer lemons. Some of these lemons have cosmetically damaged skin from a freak hail storm back in December, but they are otherwise top-notch juicy goodness.
Sooner or later, faced with a basket full of any citrus, a person makes margaritas.
I have made margaritas with various breeds of lime, with orange, with blood orange...
Huffington Post: Topless Models With Tacos →
seriously. “T&T&A.” it’s on HuffPo so it is serious news.
we found this via Mike Waskom, but since I pretend that some of you have jobs, I am doing you the favor of not reblogging the nsfw photos - and oh, there are many of them….
Taco 017: Thai-ish Tempeh Tacos
In this episode, I try too hard at some Asian-Latin Taco Fusion Business and it turns out lame.
Scene One - Couple shopping at the local Whole Foods.
“Have you ever had this pre-marinated coconut curry tempeh?”
“No.”
“Do you think I could make another Thai-inspired taco with it?”
“Not really.”
“Well, I’m going to buy...
Meals; For Moderns: Buffalo Tempeh Wrap →
Now it’s a trend.
Taco 016: Bánh Mì Tacos
I am an expert on tacos (which you know) and sandwiches (which you may not have known). So trust me that I speak from authority when I tell you this sandwich taco is fantastic. Top-ranked taco. So good. Yes.
As you probably know, bánh mì are popular Vietnamese sandwiches which take tofu or pork, cilantro, and bunch of other Asian goodness, and smoosh it in a split-open baguette. (Admitting...
Taco 015: Buffalo Wing Tacos
photo: Premshree Pillai
Were it not for food blogs, I probably would not know that the Super Bowl was coming up/existed. Honestly, if you told me you were having a party to “watch the big game” this weekend, I would assume you were watching Olympic something-or-other. American football is just not my thing. However, there are food blogs, I read them, and this is a time when people...
January 2010
6 posts
Taco 014: Thai Peanut Sauce Tacos
image: Fat Free Vegan
Dudes. This is one of the best tacos I have made. It is also dead simple. So good and so easy that you will forgive me even for addressing you as “dudes”.
Recently in my local Whole Foods, I came across a container of Thai peanut sauce made here in Santa Cruz (and made entirely without fish sauce, by the way). I am mad for Thai, so I picked it up thinking...
Taco 013: Tofu Tacos with Roasted...
So, I’m back. Tacos are back. We took a little break from each other, but it only brought us closer together, right? Time to move on. Now more than ever.
Rick Bayless is my mom’s favorite “celebrity chef” - and I cannot say she is wrong to be his fan. Every meal she or I have ever had at any of his restaurants has been exceptional. Once, he @replied to something my mom...
December 2009
11 posts
Ok, so, obviously I forgot to post last Tuesday. Boys, whisky, distractions, holidays… You know how it goes.
Anyway, I am not going to make promises about this week - but I look forward to spending a lot of time and attention on you in the new year.
In 2010 we will two-thousand-and-win.
I apparently forgot that very few of my friends actually read this blog.
A couple text messages later, though, we are set up to cook tacos together tomorrow night. It will be me and three boys, all more known as musicians than chefs so we will see how it goes.
They are all enthusiastic omnivores, so I am considering doing a meat for them and veg for me/us. I need to think about that…
We’re in DC this snowy week. It is awesome.
Anyway, who wants to make tacos together tomorrow? Anybody?
Taco 012: Kale & Black Bean Tacos
Photo: Nick Kindelsperger for Serious Eats
I am home at my mother’s house in Washington and it is the Most Festive Season Of All. Frankly, all I want to cook and/or eat right now is latkes. They could be fancy and modern or trad, but let’s face it - this is the time of the latke. Given that, I set to the task of trying to come up with a taco that incorporated latkes or general...
Taco 011: Bean & Chipotle Field Roast
Let’s be honest up front: I know this taco has more chipotles than Bobby Flay on a bender at his own restaurant in Vegas. That’s just how it’s going to be tonight.
For the first taco of this officially being a veg taco blog, I decided to take on one of the cliches of vegetarian recipe writing: “Anything you can meat, I can soy-meat better.” While, as a general...
Eating Animals.
Sorry, folks. Today is my last night in DC and I have plans that keep me from tacoing it up. I will be going with friends to see the impossibly crush-worthy Jonathan Safran Foer talk about his recent book, Eating Animals. Unfortunately, it will take all my energy to get his talk without swooning, thus: no recipe.
This does, however, give us a good opportunity to talk about something. Some of...
November 2009
16 posts
Taco 010: Chicken with Apples & Goat Cheese
photo: Ed Anderson for “Tacos” by Mark Miller, via Project Foodie
This is a perfect autumn weather taco. I had delicious firm heirloom apples from the farm project when I made these. That was before I left California for my trip, but the weather was still a bit crisp. Where I am now (typing this in the positively lovely Chinatown Coffee Co, by the way) it has been drizzly,...
No takers came forward for tacos in Virginia today. Just as well - it turned out District Taco had an emergency that closed the cart. They will be back on Friday, at which time I will personally probably swing by. Join me if you wish!
@districttaco experiment!
Let’s try something:
If you anywhere near Arlington, VA I will buy you a breakfast or lunch taco tomorrow from our cool Twitter friends @DistrictTaco. Communicate with me via tumblr, twitter, or email.
Rules:
1. One taco per person
2. Max of 5 people
3. Must be at a mutually-agreeable time
4. Reserve the right not to meet/taco with anybody creepy.
Anybody up for it? Can we call it...
It's Going to be a Taco Wednesday Week.
Criminy! I just realized that today is Tuesday and in just a few hours you will be expecting this week’s recipe. Unfortunately, I do not think I can make it happen today.
I am visiting my wonderful Washington, DC-area friends and family this week, many of whom I have told about this blog and they invariably respond “Awesome! Let’s make tacos together!” which is pretty...
hella heavy, bro.
xxhypnotiq:
Today, I was searching the amount of calories in a taco. I typed in Google search, “If I ate” but before I could finish “If I ate myself, would I be twice as big or disappear completely?” popped up. My original question didn’t seem quite as important anymore. MLIA
WAMU Metro Connection - "Food With Tim Carman:... →
Radio story from Washington, DC’s Metro Connection about where to get the best tacos (according to this guy) in the DC area.
Honestly, as hard as I love/rep my hometown, the bottom line seems to be that even the “best” around DC are not all that impressive. Frowny face.
Taco 009: Classic Ground Turkey With Guajillo
image: Oleai’s Tacos by Kevinv033
I am going to call these “red sauce” turkey tacos. Firstly, because they have something of a red sauce, yes, but also “red sauce” in the sense that we talk about those old school Little Italy type Italian restaurants as being “a red sauce joint.” People keep going to those restaurants not because they are the vanguard...
heymikewaskom:
Who rhymes “Conga” with “Longer” (Longa). Seriously, who does that? Stop it.
This has only the most tenuous connection to tacos, but Mike’s post reminded me: If you have not yet seen it on your local PBS station, we reccomed the recent documentary mini-series “Latin Music USA”. Our friend, ethnomusicologist Wayne Marshall, is featured in the fourth hour -...
Taco 008: Kogi-Inspired Tofu Tacos
photo: 140/365 kogi bbq truck by Joits
On the occasion of my most recent Kogi visit, it was a bit late in the evening and I was by myself. A cute guy ahead of me in line was carefully packing his order in a sack and trying to secure it to his bicycle. I offered him a ride to wherever he was taking them (I am nothing if not concerned with taco security!) and was totally surprised and confused...
TACO TUESDAYS
heymikewaskom:
Mighttt be my new favorite tumblr. No, seriously. This person GETS ME. No, Terry Gross isn’t my date, but I wouldn’t turn her into the streets if she asked.
And, as I sit here, listening to Zeppelin IV and drinking my first PBR Tall boy of the night (Not an ironic literary device to make you laugh at my indie credibility but seriously- I am, and always will drink PBR tall boys....
Hey, Taco Fans:
Taco Tuesdays is thinking of doing a little contest/giveaway type thing. If we did, would you participate? Anything in particular you would hope to win?
Thanks!
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Taco 007: Autumn Squash Tacos
photo by: Aida Mollenkamp, Chow
As has been mentioned in these pages previously, I volunteer a few hours a week at a local produce operation packing up the boxes of farm-grown goodness for customers. One of the advantages of getting all “hands on” with the veg is learning about new things that I have never tried before. As a volunteer, sometimes I also get sent home with a little...
October 2009
24 posts
“ASSISTANT: Marisa, I have Tacos for you.
MARISA: Thanks, put them through. Hi...”
– -Marisa Has a Conference Call With Tacos
(via dealbreaker)