Ready, Set, TACO!

Happy Day 1, everyone!  I've been amazed to see all the taco pictures posted with #30daysoftacos hashtags on Twitter today.  It's fun to see real evidence of how everybody wants to be just like me! :)

Kidding.

Ok, but seriously, folks...
I was excited to leave my helluva-work-day behind and head home tonight for a beer and some tacos tonight.  Today we had Chicken and Goat Cheese Tacos with brown rice and black beans on the side (a new favorite side-dish of mine.  How did it take me this long to discover pre-cooked rice in a bag?) and a glass of Delirium Tremens.  Delirium is super tasty beer, and totally worth the hella-mad dollaz it costs at the liquor store.  Seriously, go buy some. 

I'll wait.....

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Welcome back!

Now that you have a tasty beer to sip on, lets continue.

So yeah, Chicken and Goat Cheese Tacos.  I made some baked hard shells with the hard shell baker thingy, too.  It works pretty well!  Tonight I used corn tortillas.  The shells weren't quite as good as the store-bought hard kind, but I'll make them again.  I'm sure over the next month I'll have an opportunity or 2 to try out a few different methods.  Maybe I'll spray some cooking spray or something to make them crispier.  Unless, of course, spraying them makes them softer.  Do you guys know what'll happen?  Any ideas?

And here it is!  The recipe made a kind of a mayo-free chicken salad.  It was very tasty in tacos, and I'd make it again for sure, either for tacos or just to have as salad.  Goat cheese is good in everything, and this also has a healthy dose of cilantro. 

I love Cilantro.  If it was legal, I'd totally marry Cilantro.  But it'd have to ask me, first.  Me asking Cilantro to get married would just seem desperate.


You may have noticed that I linked todays recipe a couple of paragraphs ago.  I'm not totally sure what I want this blog to be, so for the time being I'm linking recipes.  I don't know if this is going to be a "cooking blog," or a "trying new things  the same things 30 times" blog, or maybe I'll just write whatever about whatever...or whatever.  I guess we'll all grow together.  Whichever way it ends up going, I don't really want to write out recipes.  Mostly because they aren't mine and I'm pretty sure plagiarism is frowned-upon, even on the internet.

That's only partially true.  Really, nothing is frowned-upon on the internet. 
Nothing other than things with 'comments' sections at the bottom, which are frowned-upon by weirdo jerk stranger with nothing better to do than comment mean frowny things when all you want to do is tell the world how much you like whatever.
Nothing and everything is frowned upon on the internet.
Deep Thoughts.
If you're still reading this, congratulations!  Your reward is for this post to end so you can go crack open another Delirium and plan tomorrows taco.

G'nite
B