Lisa’s Texas Chicken Taco Night! {Naptime Tales from the Trenches}
This is the latest installment of my Tales from the Trenches Series. An ongoing series where friends and readers share their stories and recipes about the great food they fit into family life. We all have tips and tricks to share with each other: when we cook, what we cook and how we cook the delicious food we love to eat. If you are interested in contributing a story and recipe please feel free to contact me. Today Lisa, a Texas transplant living in New York City, is sharing her go-to recipe for the homestyle Texas chicken tacos she makes after work with her family. She is a busy working Mom but still maintains her love of cooking. Lisa happens to work at Ellen Hanson Designs. Do you remember when Ellen herself shared her recipe for amazing Chicken Curry? As you can see by the photographs (taken by their friend Kristy Knight) this is a design firm with plenty of talent. When I saw these photographs (turns out the whole office ate tacos for lunch after the photo shoot) I told them they ought to add a food blog to their website!
A popular fall back for unprepared parents is the TACO night. At our house, taco night is chicken tacos with rice and beans garnished with shredded red cabbage, avocados and lime slices. We always add grated cheese and sour cream (or yogurt). My five year old son has had the job of chief grater since the day he could hold himself up on the kitchen stool. Being good Texan transplants, we keep corn and flour tortillas stocked in our crisper drawer. This dish is fun to put together as a family, and it works well if you have no meat in the house – you can sauté almost anything, and if you wrap it in a tortilla with cheese it will taste good!
