HI, I'm MasterGeek.MX, and by that nickname and and tha data at the left, you surely noticed that I'm from Mexico.
As many of my countrymen, I love tacos. But when I was in the 'murica, and I'd wanted to go at Taco Bell for some homeland-remeber food, I'd encounter something different, awful and strange.
THIS:
And I was like:
My northamerican hosts noticed my complain and they asked "dude, what's the problem?"
THE TACOS, THIS ISN'T TACOS!!!!!
And they was like:
Fowards that moment, I started to realize that great part of northamerican fellows have a wrong idea of how tacos really are.
So that's the reason that pushes me to make this cheesy post.
THE REAL MEXICAN TACOS THAT I ATE SINCE FOREVER ARE THIS:
So, you will be like: "So, How mexican tacos really are?"
Let's begin at the first. A taco is something in a tortilla (BTW, in spanish a doube L makes a sound like the name of the letter G, not a long L, so it spells "torti-G-a")
Now, a tortilla is a disc made of corn flour. Not wheat flour. Is like the dough that doritos are made.
And it's made at the flat griddle, not baked or fried or other sort of coocking method.
So, i'ts meant to be soft, not crispy, and fresh-made (or at least reheated)
So, ther is not something like "taco shells" or something.
Usually are made in a local at the block called tortillería (literally tortilla store), made by a machine, selled them by weight. Usually this local sells also chips, hot sauces, and some typical mexican food in disposable boxes, like seasoned rice, nopales, etc.
Even they had a little salt shaker so if you are really hungry you can take one tortilla out of yout package, put some NaCl on it and bon appetit!
They also sold it in supermarkets, either made there or in bags from a company's factory. But never frozen (let it goooooooooo...)
But the most delicious ones are the hand-made, by some old woman in the traditional griddle (the "comal") heated by some logs.
So, enough about tortillas Let's go to the real mojo of the thing.
What you can put in a taco? EVERYTHING! even another tortilla (tacoception). So, while you having a meal, grab some of the plate, put it on a tortilla, bend it for holding the stuff, and you have a taco!
But the usual partner of a tortilla that makes the taco is meat. What meat, you ask? EVERY MEAT YOU WANT!
But in the tacos restorants, taco-places and street post, there are some "familys" of usual tacos with their own contents and caracteristics.
The usual tacos are from coocked meats: steak, chiken breast, porkchop, etc. This local have some interesting type of meats, like "suadero", that is steamed steak, "pastor": porkchops seasoned with orange stuff, and it's cooked in a vertical grill called "trompo" (spinning top), very similar to the greek gyros or the mid-eastern shawarma:
(these are my favorites BTW)
Chorizo, that mainly consist in a type of sausage. Even some locals sell tacos of -brace yourselfs- cow's bran, tongue, eyes, uterus, guts, even bull's dick. Yes, BULL DICK!
These kind of tacos can have diced onion and coriander, salt, lemon, guacamole, and hot sauces.
The diced vegetables are added in the kitchen by customer's choice, but the other toppings are in the table and you can put it at pleasure. Just want to notice that pastor tacos often came with a little slice of pinapple.
Often (and sometimes is kinda-like an obsession), they offer you the tacos with cheese. But not the cheese that you find on a hamburguer. Is a white, fresh cheese from here. And they grill the cheese with the meat for melting it, in order to merege it with the meat.
Thee locals ofen sell also other food like gringas (called by you nickname, with is meat with cheese like mentioned above, but between two wheat tortillas), tortas (kinda like sadwiches with bun-type bread caled telera), etc.
The other family of tacos are the "guisado" tacos (lit. tacos of dishes)
In simple terms: tacos of typical main dishes like seasoned rice, nopales, meat with pepper, boiled egg, chorizo with popato, chiken in mole sauce, beans, etc. Personally I don't like much this kind of tacos.
Usually go with lemon, salt and hot sauces, the diced vegetables are not usual on this ones.
The Basket tacos. (tacos de canasta. I like to translate literally as possible) These are different from the other because this are sold alredy made, instead of the mayorit of tacos being prepared at the moment. This are more greasy tacos, and as the name suggests, they are sold in a basket filled with it, in order to keep it warm and fresh. Because the quantity of tacos in the basket, they often get really flatty and squeezed. Very common in parties, they consist in mainly 3 types: cooked potato, beans and "adobo" (a type of food dressing)
Usually go with hot sauces. no more. And they usually found in streets outside offices and workspaces in the back of a bycicle.
Now came the tacos dorados (fried tacos, but golden tacos if translated literally cuz here something fried is refered as golden by the color it takes)
Also called flautas (flutes), these kind of tacos are mostly of chicken or potato. The special part is that their are rolled in a tube-shape (that's why the flute name), and then deeply fried in oil.
These tacos are dressed with very diced lettuce, green hot sauce, some shredded white cheese and sour cream. This is the only type of taco that cames with sour cream.
This are usual of local markets or street stands.
Also in the beach and coasts are the fish and seafood tacos. Shrimp, marlin fish, clam, etc.
There's even exotic types of tacos, like the ones that replace torilla with lettuce (often filled with vegetarian or vegan foods in very hipster places)
And, if you wanna get into the taco world for your own, grab a note pad, cuz i'm gonna give you the recipe:
The tortilla's dough is very simple: water, very fine corn flour and a pinch of salt. No butter, no oil, no sugar, juts that 3 things.
the amount of water-corn must be enough for making a consitant dough similar to bread one. Not too dry so it crkacles, not too wet so it moist all the place. Experiment with little bits until you find your ideal balance and go on. BTW, the dough is a bit sticky, so cover the surfaces of work with plastic sheets and moist your hands
Add the pinch of salt and mix, then grab a ball, and manage to queeze it into a disc. How? Use your imagination!.
then, in a very hot frying pan WITHOUT OIL OR BUTTER put with careful the disc. Very carefull cuz they're very fragile until is cooked.
When the border seems more solid, flip it! This is like making pancakes.
When the first is done put it in a coocking pot big enough for fitting in, and put the cover for keeping em' fresh.
Now you can explore the world of the real taco, with your taste as your only pathmarker.
It's like the Nissan GTR and the new Infiniti Q50 Eau Rogue (sexy I might add) they both have the same engines but are too completely difference cars. Why are you even running Server 2008?
A little disappointed, I expected something like this...
(totally didn't just spend 10 minutes making this)
-- Just going to leave this here, I'm sure you wouldn't mind some taco banners? Portfolio: http://imgur.com/a/yApKw
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Why did you started on Vessel? Are there any money problems in LinusMediaGroup?
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that's why?
Linus is not a Dumb sucker, so he must gotten a better deal... Still
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I can't watch Vessel videos on my phone or tablet. Really?
Come on.
