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Never once in my life, not one time, have I eaten a hard shell taco and said "wow, I'm so glad this is a hard shell taco instead of a soft shell taco". Never.

Seriously soft shell corn tortillas are 100% better than hard shell ones, and you don't even have hard shell flour ones that I know of.

But some people really like em (not me).

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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Never thought of using bacon in my tacos that is genius!!

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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I'd be so happy to have a son or daughter i'd be ok with almost anything.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

concord, though apparently they opened another in sf.
el faro's

Ahh, never tried that place. But when I go back I will have to (prob the on in SF though).

The all meat burrito place in hayward though (not it's name, but what everone called it). They had the juiciest most delicious burritos. You didn't need anything in em but meat and a hot sauce (or mild) and it was so good. You could get em with all the other stuff in it, but why? Lol.

I still dream about them.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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Also ya'll feel free to post your own favorite taco recipes if you want!:)

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

burritos > tacos.

sadly my favorite burrito place is in the bay area, and I'm in southern ca now....

san francisco also had a nice burrito place where one of the items was a foot-long burrito. (not skinny either, about as thick as a regular subway sub)

Is your favorite burrito place on Tennyson Blvd in Hayward CA? Cause that place is freaking epic.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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JigsawTDC posted...

these sound like some white people tacos, no thanks. No way in hell that recipe tops even a middling taqueria in California.

I've been to the best taco places in CA, and sadly Safeway used to have an even better steak in CA formaking tacos with (god they were good). This is the best solution that is available anywhere though that I have found and are really good.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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Next up is my favorite veggy taco. There are actually quite a few yummy veggie tacos. I like asparagus tacos a ton, potato tacos also count as a veggy taco, but my favorite is actually a mushroom taco!!

Mushroom tacos are the most un-veggy like veggy taco in my opinion and can taste very much like your eating a meat taco!! They also go well with other kinda of tacos (especially chicken tacos) so you can reduce how much meat your eating, but still get it's flavor in the taco.

But for the pure Mushroom taco I like to focus on a bit different flavor and cooking method. The first point is to ensure your muchrooms are thick enough to have a good bite to them and juice left inside. I cut my shitake or button mushrooms in half basically and then fry them either on the stove or in the air fryer (stove is better. Air frying you need to use aluminum foil + oil on the botton and flip em halfway). Get a nice golden brown on the outside of your mushrooms, and then remove them to a plate. Now you have to choose the TYPE of mushroom taco you want, different flavors all work. I'm partial to butter flavored mushrooms with lettuce + tomatoes, but terryaki sauce works very well also. Sliced carrots also work well in combo with this (I don't normally like carrots but thin sliced carrots work well here to add a bit more crunch. This would also be one of the ONLY tacos that I would add cheese to (Although still a white cheese like swiss or mozzerella, I don't like the yellow cheeses). Mozzerella + mushroom tacos are extremely yum escpecially with a garlic butter sauce (oh I forget the spices, basic ones as always, season all + pepper + garlic). Finally both onions (grilled which you can do while doing the mushrooms) and bell peppers (also grilled for some extra yum) work great with these. The mushrooms are the main event, but there are tons of things you can add to the mix to change things up.

So my favorite over all including sauce + topping is:

Shitake mushrooms cut in 1/2, grilled to have a nice char with white onions + green bell peppers also grilled (but only a small amount added) + a light coating of mozz cheese (just nuke for 30 seconds on the tortilla since it softens the shell, melds the flavors and melts the cheese). I don't put any lettuce on them, but I do put diced tomatoes on at the end (after microwaving). No sauce is added as you add the butter + garlic (I used minced in this case) while grilling the mushrooms etc.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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So yeah, this is a thread about......you guessed it.....TACOS!!!

Why you ask? Well, I love tacos and most of us have been at home/self isolating etc for a year+ now. This makes getting good tacos (if they are even available in your area) very hard if impossible!!

Also, I have a ton of taco recipes and different ways to make them. I use tons of different cooking methods including, Grilling, The oven, The insta pot, The air fryer and the microwave (yes it's quite useful in a few situations!!).

I will try and post a new recipe each day or close to that, and I'll try and post both vegetarian tacos and carnivore tacos since I have good tacos of both kinds.

Today I will start off with my favorite taco and my favorite Veggy taco.

My favorite over all taco to make at home is a steak taco (use a flat iron steak on the grill), with lettuce + tomattos and salsa (no cheese for me but you can add it if you like of course). This is a very classic combo and is hands down my favorite way to eat lettuce (which isn't naturally on the top of the list for things I like to eat!!).

The flat iron steak is very tender and tasty. I let it come to room temperature then I add all the spices to it before adding salt/season all (this helps it absorb the other spices!!). I usually use black pepper + onion powder + garlic powder + season all last. I do this to both sides, then I let it rest for at least 10 minutes (to absorb it all).

Next up you grill the steak. Now this is going to sound blasphamous to some steak grillers, but, my trick is pretty simple a flat iron steak is about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inch thick (it varies but pretty much always over 1 inch). I grill both sides till they have a nice char and then (don't cringe) I Cut them into long cubes that are the same width as height (so 1 1/2 inches apart). I do this ON THE GRILL but using the slots between the grill. This makes it easy to do, and no juice is really lost.

After doing this, obviously I flip them so the uncooked sides are down. This makes grilling them VERY fast, and allows you to completly avoid any chance of over cooking etc. It gives you pleanty of outside crunch flavor as well.

Once the strips are done (basically just need to watch the outside of the 2 last sides, they are done when you have a good char on both. Remove the steak to a nice plate that you can cut it with. You still need to wait a bit for it to cool and recollect it's juices before cutting. But since you can literally make a taco at a time, you don't have to wait that long for the first piece (just about 2 minutes max). Any juice that does spill out, you just lay the tortilla in before placing the steak pieces on that side.

I then take the tortilla WITH the steak pieces on it, put it on a paper plate (used to also eat said taco) and nuke it for 30 seconds.

Why?

Well 30 seconds just reheats the meat and gets the juices flowing a bit (if it's cooled off that is) and doesn't over cook it at all, but it ALSO softens the flour tortilla shell, and lets it absorb the juices a bit more.

Then I remove the plate and add the tomottoes + lettuce and finally a nice line of hot taco salsa.

The end result is amazing. The steak is in small cube sized pieces, easy to bite into, but very juicy with a nice crunch as well. The juices that explode while you bite into the taco mix with the lettuce and tomattoes + salsa to make an extremely delicious flavor.

The end result is honestly better than most tacos you can find even in California, and you can make that anywhere in the world you can get a flat iron steak. Hands down my favorite taco by far.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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There is this one hotel chain, forget it's name right now, but they not only have free breakfasts (including sausage/bacon eggs etc) but they have free dinners and alcohol!! 3 types of beer and 2 types of wine, all you can drink. It's the Hilton Garden Inns. Can stay there fairly cheap in many areas, and you get all you can drink alcohol, breakfast and usually 3 choices for dinners (Also all you can eat). Admittingly it's things like chilli, mac and cheese and beef stew.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
Friends don't make their friends die Hanz. Psychopathic friends do.

If a live chicken freezes, can you just stick it like that in your freezer and pluck it when you defrost it?

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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Should be mentioned that at this point you can almost have a streaming service free every month.

Almost all of them offer 1 free month per year. If you were really cheap, you could have 2 accounts (need 2 different credit cards) and get 2 free months per year.

If you rotate services, that means you'll have hulu/disney/amazon/netflix/cbs/peacock/amc/hbo and i'm probably forgetting a few. Even just 1 per year fills out almost every month (8 months right there).

Advantage of this is that each of em have lots of content for you when you get back to em, oh yeah, and it's free.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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FatalAccident posted...

looks shit lol

More like pee:)

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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HBO and Amazon both work very well a few times a year for me. They do alot of per week shows (and I'm spoiled by netflix to want to binge watch), and generally I can catch up on everything I wanna see in a few weeks.

Hulu is similar but does have some normal TV shows....but now you can watch almost all of them directly on the website for that channel....so again, a few times a year at most.

Netflix has almost no months go by that they don't release at least 1 show I want to binge watch, which is worth the cost of netflix all by itself. They have tons of decent/good original programing and so many good shows I want to re-watch that I will literally never run out of things to watch on netflix.

I run out within half a month from hulu, and while HBO max is good and I didn't run out before my last month was over, I was just rewatching Rome and a few other shows at that point, nothing worth resubscribbing for.

I have like 5? original shows I still want to watch on netflix, the new Jinx thing, The order season 2, Disenchantment, Godless, space sweepers, and some others I can't remember. Meanwhile tons of other shows i'm in the middle of watching or want to watch again. I could pretty much just watch netflix for the rest of this year if I wanted.

I get bored with even HBO max in a month or so, but that does at least have alot of new stuff coming out along with new movies as well, makign it worth it. It also has all the old DC content (didn't get to finish season 2 of the one with the robot dude + donkey + dude from fireflay as nobody or whatever he was called).

Def could use another season of HBO max, but I could use another YEAR of Netflix (and by then there will be a ton more stuff to watch.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
Friends don't make their friends die Hanz. Psychopathic friends do.

Thanks for the recipe, I don't have oyster sauce as the one I used didn't include it, but I may try again using that, and then just use 1/2 as much sugar than is listed (hopefully it won't be too bad like that). Your recipe still uses 2 teaspoons of sugar but at least it doesn't have brown sugar as well (prob due to the oyster sauce). I wonder if oyster sauce has sugar in it though.

I may just cut back on the soy sauce, add a bit of hot sauce/marinade and aim for a more spicy broccoli beef instead of the norm (more like a mongolian stir fry sauce, which I have done before many times at mongolian places, without sugar being added).

I'll make it work, but still dissapointed as I really love broccoli beef sauce over rice (love the combo with rice), now I know why...because it has a freakton of sugar in it....sigh.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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I mean, that pic makes it look like they are removing your throat!!

Vampire plastic surgeons!! Be afraid!!

Hope it comes out great Jen. I guess you now have a neck less.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
Friends don't make their friends die Hanz. Psychopathic friends do.

Jesus, I can't choose between netflix and Hbo Max at this point, they are both so good. I think....maybe.....for now.....I would still go with netflix but seriously it's barely ahead.

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
Friends don't make their friends die Hanz. Psychopathic friends do.

Isn't that what walt used to kill the chick in Breaking Bad?

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
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So the other day I said to myself "Myself, I really miss good broccoli beef, Imma just gonna make my own!!".

Now i've tried before, but I really have never gotten the sauce down, even though I have tried multiple times in the past.

But now there are all these videos to use!! So i'm like, I got this!! I got garlic paste and ginger paste to make adding them easier, got the soy sauce etc, but I skippped the brown sugar...cause diabetic over here.....and I figured it would still be decent without it.

I was wrong, it just tasted like VERY strong soy sauce when I was done. Sigh.

Also maybe it wasn't just the pizza since I didn't realize like most of chinese food that I like had a freakton of sugar in it. Growl.

Seriously though, it's one of my favorite dishes and I can't seem to find any way to make it that doesn't involve alot of sugar being added.

At least I got seriously good pot stickers down now. Saw a few videos on them and next time I make them, I'm going to use a water/slurry (water + flour) instead of just water for the steaming part. This creates that crunchy yum layer under the pot stickers that the best resteraunts have. I made them without it last time and they came out great, but that is the last step...to making the most delicious pot stickers ever...at home.

At least THAT does't have me adding sugar.

REally sad about broccoli beef though, that was like one of my primary ways of eating veggies!!

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Tacobot 3000 "Saving the world from not having tacos."
Friends don't make their friends die Hanz. Psychopathic friends do.