I love Mexican food. It's easy to make, filling and tastes great.
Today, we are making tostadas. This is a fried corn tortilla with stuff on top.
There is only one problem with your basic tostada. You can only add so much stuff on top before it starts spilling over. I have a solution for that.
What you will need.
A frying pan with a quarter inch of cooking oil in it.
1 pound of hamburger
1 can of olives
1 can of diced tomatos
1 head of lettuce
1 package of corn tortillas
1 container of sour cream
1 jar of Mexican cheese salsa (my secret ingredient available at Safeway stores everywhere)
2 cups of shredded cheese
First the tortillas.
Heat the oil until it reacts (fizzles) when you put a drop of water in it.
Put a tortilla into the oil. Cook for about 1-2 minutes per side. Some tortillas will sort of grow like a blowfish when heat is added. Don't panic. Just poke a hole in it and allow to deflate. I don't allow any bubbles to form in my tortillas since it messes with the balance of food you will soon be placing on top.
Make 6-10 tortillas this way.
Now, this next step is important. Open your can of olives. Dump the water out of the can and put the olives on a cutting board. Now, dump the used oil out of the frying pan into the olive can, allow to cool and then throw away. If you don't wait for it to cool, it will melt through your plastic kitchen garbage can (you don't want to know how I know this.)
Put your hamburger into the frying pan and cook until all of the pink is gone. Drain off excess oil into the olive can with the other oil.
Take a giant bowl and put the hamburger into it.
Chop up the olives on put into the bowl with the hamburger.
Chop up a bunch of lettuce and put into the bowl. I'm not sure how much a "bunch" actually is. If you feel like you need some vegetables in your diet, use the whole head of lettuce. Otherwise, use less.
Dump the can of diced tomatoes into the bowl.
Dump the Mexican cheese salsa into the bowl.
Dump about half of the sour cream container into the bowl (use it all if you like sour cream)
Dump the shredded cheese into the bowl.
Now, stir everything in the bowl together. What you end up with is a taco salad without the tacos. By mixing everything up in the bowl, you can heap it onto your fried tortillas without fear of spillage. Everything should be pretty much stuck together.
Now, put the stuff in the bowl onto your tortilla.
Eat and enjoy.
jim
Today, we are making tostadas. This is a fried corn tortilla with stuff on top.
There is only one problem with your basic tostada. You can only add so much stuff on top before it starts spilling over. I have a solution for that.
What you will need.
A frying pan with a quarter inch of cooking oil in it.
1 pound of hamburger
1 can of olives
1 can of diced tomatos
1 head of lettuce
1 package of corn tortillas
1 container of sour cream
1 jar of Mexican cheese salsa (my secret ingredient available at Safeway stores everywhere)
2 cups of shredded cheese
First the tortillas.
Heat the oil until it reacts (fizzles) when you put a drop of water in it.
Put a tortilla into the oil. Cook for about 1-2 minutes per side. Some tortillas will sort of grow like a blowfish when heat is added. Don't panic. Just poke a hole in it and allow to deflate. I don't allow any bubbles to form in my tortillas since it messes with the balance of food you will soon be placing on top.
Make 6-10 tortillas this way.
Now, this next step is important. Open your can of olives. Dump the water out of the can and put the olives on a cutting board. Now, dump the used oil out of the frying pan into the olive can, allow to cool and then throw away. If you don't wait for it to cool, it will melt through your plastic kitchen garbage can (you don't want to know how I know this.)
Put your hamburger into the frying pan and cook until all of the pink is gone. Drain off excess oil into the olive can with the other oil.
Take a giant bowl and put the hamburger into it.
Chop up the olives on put into the bowl with the hamburger.
Chop up a bunch of lettuce and put into the bowl. I'm not sure how much a "bunch" actually is. If you feel like you need some vegetables in your diet, use the whole head of lettuce. Otherwise, use less.
Dump the can of diced tomatoes into the bowl.
Dump the Mexican cheese salsa into the bowl.
Dump about half of the sour cream container into the bowl (use it all if you like sour cream)
Dump the shredded cheese into the bowl.
Now, stir everything in the bowl together. What you end up with is a taco salad without the tacos. By mixing everything up in the bowl, you can heap it onto your fried tortillas without fear of spillage. Everything should be pretty much stuck together.
Now, put the stuff in the bowl onto your tortilla.
Eat and enjoy.
jim
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