Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mike's super simple taco & tostada tips. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mike's Super Simple Taco & Tostada Tips is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mike's Super Simple Taco & Tostada Tips is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mike's super simple taco & tostada tips using 34 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mike's Super Simple Taco & Tostada Tips:
- Prepare ● For The Meat [as needed]
- Get 80/20 Ground Beef
- Prepare ● For The Shells [as needed]
- Get Fresh Flat Tostada Shells
- Make ready Fresh Flour Tortillas
- Make ready Fresh Taco Shells
- Get ● For The Vegetables Additions & Toppings [all chilled - as needed]
- Take Taco Bell Seasoning Packe [one for meat - one for refried beans]
- Make ready Firm Black Olives [sliced]
- Make ready Fresh Cilantro Leaves [chopped]
- Prepare Red Onions [chopped]
- Make ready Iceberg Lettuce [shreaded]
- Take Cabbage [shreaded]
- Take Shreaded Mexican 3 Cheese
- Get Viadailla Onions [chopped]
- Get Firm Beefeater Tomatoes [chopped]
- Get Jalapeños [minced - seeds & membranes removed]
- Take Fresh Minced Garlic
- Make ready Fresh Lime Wedges & Juice
- Take 1 Can Beef Stock [with sodium]
- Get 2 Cans Rosarita Refried Beans [one of the better brands]
- Make ready Firm Avocados [sliced - lightly drizzled with lime juice]
- Get 2 tbsp Dehydrated Onions [don't use fresh onions]
- Get Radishes [sliced]
- Make ready Sour Cream [add fresh chives if possible]
- Make ready Homemade Salsa [see recipe]
- Take Homemade Green Salsa [see recipe]
- Prepare Homemade Habenero Sauce [see recipe]
- Get 1/2 tsp Mexican Oregeno [crushed]
- Get Queso Fresco Cheese
- Make ready ● For The Options [all dusted with Taco seasoning]
- Take Sliced Sirlon
- Take Shreaded Chicken
- Make ready Chopped Shrimp
Instructions to make Mike's Super Simple Taco & Tostada Tips:
- Start with 80/20 ground beef. There's no need to strain this specific extra lean blend.
- One of the better, more familiar Americanized pre-fabed Taco Seasoning mixes. This brand is always a REAL time saver. After all, I'm always about the easy if it works!
- Instead of adding your dry packet seasoning mix into your dry fried ground beef and risk clumping. Or, even adding plain water to moisten and dissolve it. Try using a 1/2 cup + of beef stock for moisture and additional flavor. Mix, steam, simmer and cover.
- Add a good pinch of ground cumin, a dash of Mexican Oregeno, [crushed] fresh ground black pepper, fresh minced garlic and 2 tbsp dehydrated onions. Cover and simmer. Add additional beef stock if need be. Be sure to use dehydrated onions. Believe it or not, they really do make the beef part of the dish.
- Chop fresh chilled shreadded cabbage, lettuce with drizzled lime juice, tomatoes, cilantro, Viadailla onions for sweetness, firm black sliced olives, [hidden under tomatoes] jalapeños with radishes and refrigerate. Make sure all vegetables are super firm, crazy snapy fresh and chilled! It does make a huge difference!
- For the Stacked Refried Beans. Add a bunch of fresh chopped sweet onions, a 1/2 cup Mexican 3 Cheese, firm tomatoes with no seeds, cilantro leaves, minced garlic, jalapeños, a 1/2 packet of taco seasoning and a dash of your favorite red salsa. Just heat and serve. That's it folks! Easy peasy! No secrets here! You can sauté your vegetables if you want them soft but we don't here in New Mexico.
- Fresh chilled, sliced Avocados drizzled with lime juice for flavor and to keep them from browning.
- Fresh chilled Sour Cream. Add fresh diced chives to it if you have them on hand. They're always appreciated!
- Fresh homemade guacamole. See my recipe for, Mike's Fiesta Guacamole, under my profile if you'd like.
- Homemade habenero sauce. See my recipe for, Mike's Garlic Habenero Chili Sauce, under my profile if you'd like.
- Homemade chilled salsa. See my recipe under, Mike's Authentic Salsa. I received this recipe from a native Mexican in Mexico City when I was a kid. It's clean, pure, crisp and crazy delicious!
- Homemade chilled Green Salsa. See my recipe for, Mike's Very Verde Salsa, if you'd like. Here in New Mexico we usually employ both red and green salsa on everything we eat. In fact, we typically call it, "Goin' Christmas on their asses!"
- Feel free to check out my, Mike's Creamy Avocado Dip And Spread, if you'd like.
- Queso Fresco Cheese. You will want to crumble it up a bit.
- Fresh shredded Mexican 3 Cheese blend.
- Red Onion and cilantro leaves. always make for a pretty, colorful, delicious garnish.
- You can use fresh lime wedges or lime juice. Your choice. Used mostly to keep fresh ingredients from browning as well as for flavor. Either works just as well. It's up to you!
- Sliced sirlon, shreaded chicken and shrimp mixed with your basic Taco seasoning goes great with these as well. Just make sure your proteins are hot and your sides are super crispy and chilly! Enjoy!
Turn to Food to Elevate Your Mood
A lot of us have been conditioned to think that comfort foods are terrible and are to be avoided. If your comfort food is candy or junk food this is true. Soemtimes, comfort foods can be perfectly nourishing and good for us to consume. Several foods honestly do raise your mood when you consume them. If you feel a little bit down and you need a happiness pick me up, try a couple of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, are wonderful for helping you fight depression. Just be sure that you don’t throw away the egg yolk. The egg yolk is the most important part of the egg in terms of helping you cheer up. Eggs, especially the yolks, are rich in B vitamins. B vitamins can be fantastic for boosting your mood. This is because they help improve the function of your neural transmitters, the components of your brain that control your mood. Try eating a few eggs to cheer up!
Put together some trail mix of nuts or seeds. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, etcetera are all great for raising your mood. This is possible because these foods are high in magnesium which boosts serotonin production. Serotonin is the “feel good” natural substance that dictates to your brain how you feel at all times. The higher your levels of serotonin, the more pleasant you are going to feel. Not only that but nuts, particularly, are a fantastic protein source.
Cold water fish are excellent for eating if you wish to battle depression. Salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, trout, etcetera, they’re all chock-full of omega-3 and DHA. Omega-3 fatty acids and DHA are two things that raise the quality and the function of your brain’s gray matter. It’s true: eating a tuna fish sandwich can seriously boost your mood.
It’s easy to fight your bad mood when you consume grains. Quinoa, barley, millet, etc are excellent at helping you feel better. They help you feel full also which can truly help to make your mood better. Feeling famished can really make you feel awful! The reason these grains are so wonderful for your mood is that they are not difficult to digest. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps promote a rise in your blood sugar which in turn brings up your mood to a happier place.
Green tea is truly great for your mood. You were sure it had to be mentioned in this article, right? Green tea is rich in an amino acid known as L-theanine. Studies have found that this amino acid basically induces brain waves. This helps focus your mental energy while simultaneously making the rest of your body more relaxed. You were already aware that that green tea helps you become better. Now you know that green tea can improve your mood as well!
Now you can see that junk food isn’t necessarily what you should eat when you want to help your moods get better. Try a few of these instead!
