OT: I need a good recipe for taco salad

[pinkbelle]

hello ladies.... I have the strangest craving for tacos but I wanted to make taco salad... I was jsut wodnering what everyone put in it and so on....

[missyg477]

OMG all this sounds sooooooo goooood.  I'm hungry now.

[blueeyedtabbycat]

My aunt runs a day care and all the kids love taco day! She starts out by giving them all those little snake size bags of doritios. The kids get to have fun crunching the chips in the bag:) Then my aunt takes all the usual taco stuff and puts it in the bag, along with a disposable fork! It cuts down on her dirty dishes and with 20 kids running around I thought that was coolest thing anyone has ever thought of:)

She also has a very yummy adult (LOL) version of taco salad . I will have to see if I can get the recepie, I dont ever make it, but its a hit at all her partys!

[mamaofonetrying42]

My MIL makes it the same way but she adds catalina dressing?

[Jame0223]

I never used salad dressing because really the ingrediants and meat are good enough. And lettuce is probably the smallest amount on my plate lol what can I say. I really just stir it all up. Dont really need dressing...sour creams like a dressing though! lol I sometimes mix sour cream and salsa together. Looks gross but is yummy! I recommend the recipe! Unless you go and buy the premade taco boat shells then yeahhh doritos are a great alternative haha plus theyre cheesey and add extra flavor.

[pinkbelle]

really doritos .... that actually sounds really good... i might try that.. do you use any kind of salad dressing

[Jame0223]

What I do is kind of weird but hey!. Take about a pound of ground beef. Brown it up and add some premade taco seasoning, they sell them in packages. Cook that up and theres your meat. Get a can of refried beans. Warm them up on the stove with about a tablespoon of veg oil. Theres your beans. Chop up some tomatoes, green onion, avocado, lettuce and grate some cheese. Now for the weird part...I dont like to fry tortillas or anything so I just take some nacho cheese doritoes and crush them up. Pile all your ingrediants onto the chips and BAM (as emeril says) you got yourself some taco salad! Its reallllly good mm mm mmmmm. Especially if you throw on some salsa or sour cream. EXTRA CHEESE. hahah

[missyg477]

All I want to eat now is tacos and chalupas!!!!!  I won't give you any of my advice for them  because they never come out right! I know, how do u screw up tacos, right? Somehow I screw them up. lol