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Let’s talk tacos.
They are my perfect food.
I’d gladly serve and eat them everyday if I could and never get sick of them.
Tacos are just good, easy, fun – and so adaptable.
Growing up we really did have tacos every other night. Ok, maybe not every other night, but at least two or three times a week. At least.
Of course back then they were only straight up beef tacos with a very generous amount of taco seasoning. No tomatoes, no lettuce no avocados, no salsa, no guacamole and definitely no crema.
Just ground beef, flour tortillas for the boys, hard tortillas for Mom and I, a ton of cheddar cheese and salad for Dad, where my mom and I might steal some lettuce from .
Sometimes on very rare occasions Mom and I would get our way and get turkey tacos, but to be honest that only happened if we were able to sneak the turkey meat into the pan without the boys finding out.
Tacos were just easy and everyone liked them. Well not everyone, my dad would alway makes himself salads every night for dinner.
Like every night.
No exaggeration.
When we were younger we ate boring, boring food. Chicken, tacos, chicken, tacos, steak, chicken and rice with everything. No exaggeration there either. We had rice practically every night and we still have it a lot.
We love rice.
No actually my Mom loves rice and everybody else has learned to love it and want it with practically everything, because of her.
My dad actually likes good food.
Not a whole lot of beef or chicken, but lots of fish, vegetables, tons of spicy food and cheese. But we all love cheese. Cheese is at the top of the food chain around here.
So my poor dad ate salad every almost night for like fourteen years. Then I came in and took over the kitchen and he finally started getting food good enough to retire the salads.
But he still does love a good salad.
In fact this salad is his all time favorite……
Buffalo sauce is his absolute favorite… on anything.
Anyway, we still like tacos around here. We just can’t break the taco habit.
And yes, we still have them once a week. The boys though? Yeah, they still eat them like every other night, but they are picky and will not eat much of anything else.
So these are different.
I know.
But I promise the sweetness from the sweet potato is so amazing with the spicy chorizo, like so amazing.
And then with the sweet corn and black bean salsa and the roasted avocado cream?
Oh man, if only you knew. It’s so good.
And so much better than plain beef tacos. That I know for sure.
Plus, there is no oven involved.
Yes, NO oven!! I did it, I made a meal that you actually do not need to turn the oven on for. Can I please get a round of applause?
No?
Ok fine, just make the tacos tonight. You can all clap then!
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I love taco Tuesday!
Hi Tieghan! My sister and I made these this week and LOVED them! We did have a question though – in the ingredients list, grape tomatoes are included for the salsa, but aren’t mentioned in the directions. Also, cumin is listed in the ingredients for the crema, but in the directions it’s used in the salsa. We ended up not including tomatoes, and put the cumin in the crema but not the salsa. Just wondering what you intended! Thanks, and love the blog!!
Hey Brittany! Sorry about the confusion. The tomatoes go in the salsa as does the cumin, but I am sure it was delicious in the crema too!! so happy you guys loved these and thanks for making them!
Hi Tieghan, just had a quick question on what type of chorizo you use in this recipe. Is it the type that looks kind of like smoked sausage & is vacuum sealed or more like italian sausage style. My supmarket sells both. They also had a spicy Portuguese style chorizo that looked good. Thanks.
Hey Theresa! I use the kind that looks like ground sausage!! Hope you love these!
Just made all of these last night, and everything was incredible!
Oh yeah!! So happy you loved these!! Thanks Sarah!
These are a million times better than my tacos!! 😉 I love the sweet potato in these!!
Thank you, Jocelyn!
I love these flavors and love the sweet potatoes. Great idea!
Thank you so much, Cassie!
Oh, perfect timing! I just got a bunch of avocadoes at the farmers market, and the avocado cream…yeah, that looks good enough to simply eat with a spoon!
Perfect!! Hope you love this!
What a great idea for the lunchbox, and here’s to smooth sailing from here on in for the big day –
Thank you!
YUM. Tacos are food perfection. WANT.
Thanks Sarah!
You had me at avocado.
YA! Thanks Maris!
Tacos definitely make every night a happy night! Especially if they involve sweet potatoes. And cheese. Two of my favorite things in life!
Thanks Joanne!
How much yogurt is to be used, you don’t like it as an ingredient in the Poblano Avocado Crema.
Oops! Sorry, I used about a 1/4 cup. I just fixed the recipe. Hope you love these!
This looks sooo good, i love sweet potato tacos with kale chips, maybe the chorizo will please my husband as well, cant wait to try it, thank you!
Thanks Holly! Hope you guys love these!
I really need to start using soyrizo in my tacos!! I really love it and I love the extra spice that it gives to Mexican foods :).
Whoa! Soyrizo? That is crazy, I have never heard of that!
Thanks Hannah!
I totally remember those taco nights at home – straight from the Ortego taco kit box! These look phenomenal! And I love the idea of the sweet potato!! Can’t wait to try these – especially the crema!
Thank you so much, Maria!
I love everything going on in these tacos! I could eat about a half dozen right about now! 🙂
Thank you, Liz!