Pesce Week 8: The Foodsening

So week 8, what can I say. I've found myself wishing for something with meat in it more than I used to. That's a change. I find myself bored with these posts since I don't have much to post about aside from, "Oh, it's been a week, I haven't failed yet...."

I do have a recipe I found and then modified by changing ground beef to ground fake beef.

Pasta Shell Tacos

A pound of ground beef (I used a package of Morning Star Meal Starters something... the ground beef)
1 package of cream cheese
Taco seasoning
Large pasta shells (I fit 16 filled ones into a dish)
Salsa of your choice
Cheddarjack cheese (or maybe a mexican blend) shredded
Taco sauce

Heat the oven to 375°. Cook shells according to direction (boil them until tender pretty much). Prepare a 9x13 dish and pour salsa on the bottom. Brown the beef (or heat the faux beef) and mix the taco seasoning to direction. Add cream cheese and heat until homogeneous. Arrange the shells in the baking dish and fill. Top the 'tacos' with taco sauce and bake for 15 minutes. Top with cheese and crushed tortilla chips if desired. Bake for an additional 15 minutes. Top with sour cream, guacamole and/or anything else desired. ENJOY!

They were really bomb, my family ate the non-meat with pleasure (just my parents, the other two weren't eating at home that night). So now that you have that recipe try it out. I'll catch you guys next week.

Until then,
Mandog

Foodz

Back in BEDApril I posted an eclectic blog in which a topic covered was my love for food, specifically in the cooking of food. I just would like to reiterate that cooking food is amazing. Today I, with the help of my mother who prepared the slaw by julienning the radishes and tossing it with the broccoli slaw and seasoning, made some delicious Blackened Tilapia Tacos. This dish was quite simple actually, and fairly inexpensive, we're feeding the five of us with plenty of fish and slaw left over for more while spending less than $12.

Ingredients (I'm going to list off what we got)

- a pound and a half of defrosted tilapia fillets (previously frozen is nice and cheap)
- one 10 oz package of broccoli slaw mix
- one bunch of radishes
- 10 (you should go with more since we ran out) corn tortillas
- Cheddar-Jack cheese (I would suggest something like Quesa Fresca, the cheddar jack is good, and I am quite a fan of it, but I think quesa fresca would work much better)
- Blackened Seasoning
- 2 or 3 limes

For the preparation cut the tilapia fillets in half, this will make cooking and handling the fish a lot easier. Coat each half fillet in a fairly liberal amount of blackened seasoning (it all depends on how much you like blackened seasoning) and now your fish is ready to cook. For your slaw just julienne (slice really thin)the radishes, toss it with the broccoli slaw mix and some of the blackened seasoning with a little bit of water.

Cook your fish on a skillet over medium heat, flipping a few times, until the fish is nice a flaky. Put the fish in a bowl and shred it with a fork until you have bite-sized pieces. Cut a lime in half, squeeze it into your fish and your slaw. Heat your tortillas and melt your cheese on the top of it, fill with the fish and slaw, serve with a slice of lime on the side. With this you could also add a salsa of your choice, but keep the salsa's flavor simple, you don't want to hide the amazing flavors already in the dish.

Enjoy cooking fish tacos if you ever have the urge.