In our family, it was cheese tacos.
Cheese tacos are our stand-by what-do-you-make-when-you-haven’t-really-thought-about-it-in-advance lunch.
There’s always a stack ofcorn tortillasin the fridge.
Elise Bauer
There’s almost always cheddar or jack cheese.
I’ve noticed that most of my friends regularly make a quick sandwich for lunch.
Maybe once a month I’ll make a sandwich.
Three times a week I’ll make cheese tacos.
You don’t have a stack of tortillas in your fridge?)
Add some salsa and you’re done.
My cheese tacos tend to be a little more elaborate.
I stand by my rule thatyou can put almost anything in a tortilla and call it a taco.
Here’s my very special cheese taco recipe.
My grandmother made cheese tacos this way; my mother still makes cheese tacos this way.
Cheese Tacos Secret Ingredient
What’s the secret ingredient that give these cheese tacos such good flavor?
The ingredient my mother, grandmother, and I have insisted on using with these tacos our entire lives?
Butter usually does make everything better, right?
There’s no exception here.
We butter the corn tortillas before softening them up in the frying pan.
We usually eat corn-on-the-cob with butter, don’t we?
As for the extra cheese taco fillings?
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Cheese Tacos
This method makes delicious, buttery, cheesy tacos.
Soften the tortillas first in the microwave.
While the pan is heating, prepare your ingredients.
Cut some slices of cheese.
Get the salsa out of the fridge.
Thinly slice as many slices of apple as you want tacos.
(3 tacos, 3 apple slices).
Cut, remove seed, slice, and remove from skin the avocado slices you want.
Slice some lettuce and any leftover meat you want to add in.
Let the tortilla sit in hot pan until pockets of air start to form bubbles in the tortilla.
Add slices of cheese to one side of the tortilla.
double-check to allow room for the cheese to melt and not spread all over the pan.
Move the folded cheese taco to one side of the pan.
Add a second tortilla, lightly buttered on one side, and repeat the process.
If it gives easily, the cheese is melted and you might remove the taco from the pan.
You are basically done with the cheese tacos.
Now all you have left to do is assembly.
Open up each taco and add the ingredients you want.
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