Given no suggestions from the mt.net peanut gallery, we went with a Parisian friend of mines recommendation this evening and went to Yuman.

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I had the lamb, which was delicious as one might expect 😃

Brain, what is the closer kebab resting on?

Home made slow cooker carnitas tacos
with pickled red onions
home made pico de gayo
cotija cheese

side of quick spanish rice and whole foods awesome ranchero beans.

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Plate was dirty from three previous tacos.

Heaven.

aleppo marinated beef souvlaki red chili, garlic toum, baby artichokes


That dish is Trey approved.

Tonight I am going to try an experiment on my family.
Well my wife anyway. Because a sub-4 year old would have no idea.

I'm going to make a copycat recipe of taco bells "taco meat" and "hot sauce" to see what she says.

Now it might be hard because she's a legit food policy person and really eschews fast food from her life (mostly) but she does have suburban and lower middle class roots and has eaten lots of crap as a kid so there's that. Plus her mom's most recent job was, in fact, AT a taco bell.

Bottom line, I D G A F if she figures it out. I think it'll be fun.

Sauce (and I do mean source):
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Perez edit: I assume you mean this: http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/Taco Bell Mild Border Sauce Copycat Recipe

http://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/ho...lling-0124399/

Make sure you find the lowest grade meat available and then throw dirt in it.

Serious question:

Why are you attempting to clone a Taco Bell taco?

i enjoy grill weather

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Grilling is for the win.

I think you miss the point of recreating food from restaurants at home.

For the shits and giggles. But definitely for less shits than the real deal.

Like ... who doesn't crave that mcdonalds cheeseburger and fries taste? But maybe without all the shitty ingredients and preservatives.

Anyway, she enjoyed the burritos and was confused why I made so much hot sauce for them.

My taco meat is better and less bland/dry but I enjoy a good (social) experiment.

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FTFY.

Taco Bell Sued Over Meat That's Just 35 Percent Beef | Fox News

I didnt miss the point at all boss. If you want to recreate any restaurant food make the good stuff, not taco bell.

I'm your boss. You'll listen and you'll put your head down and fucking WORK.

less flirting moar food pics

This is my waffle from 4th of july. Please, do not make fun of bacon.

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Taco bell redemption...

marinated some skirt while I was off at work. fajitas!


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I'll play...Everything is made at home by me

Shrimp Etouffee

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Home smoked Salo (pure pork belly fat). It's like bacon x10.

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White wine Drunken Mussels with Crostinis
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Fresh caught and grilled vermilion

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Super jealous you got to eat there....but serving black caviar like that is a travesty. Just like oysters - the most delicate flavor notes are lost in sauce and hope they gave you mother of pearl or similar spoon instead of steel.

Travesty /= Tragedy. Just sayin'.

Stuffed, marinated eggplant. Because it's getting cold, it's hard to start fermentation process at room temperature, so marinating is the next best thing.

Stuffing - pan fried onions, bell peppers and carrots in sunflower oil with dill, cilantro and garlic..... Oh, and of course roasted potatoes with crushed black pepper and sea salt !!!

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