The Breakfast Taco Project

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Next door neighbor eggs, home cured bacon from one of our pigs, homemade hash browns, homemade roasted tomatillo salsa, homemade tortillas, store bought cheddar (still working on that), breakfast beer. Delicious. 

2 hours start to finish lol

Photo Egg

Excellent as always
Beer always goes with tacos!

lousubcap

Great breakfast banquet.  Two hours for breakfast is far more patience than I could handle.  But that looks quite tasty.  Congrats.  Home-made beer next??
Beer and store-bought chocolate chip cookies can get me going in no time

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lousubcap said:

Great breakfast banquet.  Two hours for breakfast is far more patience than I could handle.  But that looks quite tasty.  Congrats.  Home-made beer next??
Beer and store-bought chocolate chip cookies can get me going in no time

I only have a few beers a year so I’m going to leave that to the pros. 

Foghorn

That looks awesome.  My son just asked me if your taco is as good as one from Bill Miller's.   (That was for @20stone)

shtgunal3

I’d hit it.

SciAggie

Looks like you nailed it. I need to work on my flour tortillas.
And two hours isn’t bad for all that. 

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Foghorn said:

That looks awesome.  My son just asked me if your taco is as good as one from Bill Miller's.   (That was for @20stone)

Tell Jason that even in this time of social distancing, I will hunt him down. I have nothing but time and a liquor cabinet full of future bad decisions. 

alaskanassasin

Tortilla looks perfect well done

NDG

Breakfast Tacos - soooooo good but something the Midwest (where I live) does not do well.  Yours looks great !  I had best breakfast taco & Horchata in Austin during my last visit . . Small hole in the wall spot.

caliking

I need to sit down for a spell, to fully appreciate this. 

loco_engr

breakfast beer . . . totally new concept! 

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loco_engr said:

breakfast beer . . . totally new concept! 

For who? Lol

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NDG said:

Breakfast Tacos - soooooo good but something the Midwest (where I live) does not do well.  Yours looks great !  I had best breakfast taco & Horchata in Austin during my last visit . . Small hole in the wall spot.

You are soooo right. I moved to WI for 7 years and the only breakfast “taco” in sight was Mickey D’s. I’ve been making BT’s since I was in high school so I’ve dialed it in pretty well. I got really good at it up there. It’s also where I learned to cook bbq too. When Famous Dave’s is your best option, you need to roll up your sleeves and figure it out. 

marcdc

Looks awesome. Care to share the tomatillo salsa recipe?

just got a vitamix and I’m ready to try some savory things out... although last night’s strawberry mango rum daiquiris were fantastic lol

pgprescott

Bravo!

saluki2007

marcdc said:

Looks awesome. Care to share the tomatillo salsa recipe?

just got a vitamix and I’m ready to try some savory things out... although last night’s strawberry mango rum daiquiris were fantastic lol

Another +1 for the tomatillo recipe. 

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Salsa-

Roasted Tomatillo Habanero Salsa:

2lbs tomatillos
2 cloves garlic

1.5 habanero peppers 

Juice of 1-1.5 lime (to your liking)

Big pinch 50/50 salt and pepper

Tsp cumin 

In this batch I used jalapeno Because I had them. If you use jalapeno roast 3-5 of them (depending on how hot you like it) with everything else. 

Directions:

Husk Tomatillos and remove stems from tomatillos and peppers. 

Place tomatillos, garlic and peppers on a foil lined sheet pan under broiler on high. After 5 min or so (when getting very blistered and dark, turn peppers and tomatillos to blister the other side. If garlic has started to soften, remove at this time. 

Once peppers and tomatillos have blistered and softened, put all ingredients in blender (make sure you get any liquid that has run out onto the foil

blend on low 30-60 seconds until there are no chunks. 

This recipe Makes exactly 2 pint jars full. Scale up or down to your liking. 

thetrim

Really like that!  I'll have to give the salsa a try.  The fire roasted salsa is excellent.  The habanero salsa thread burned me up too much, but the flavor was most excellent. 

On a side note, the next time I actually get a brisket that I don't scorch, I'll try a RDH mock up.

thetrim

And I'd love to hear more about those tortillas.  That's our gaping hole in this cook over here.

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thetrim said:

And I'd love to hear more about those tortillas.  That's our gaping hole in this cook over here.

I use this recipe when I make them. H-E-B has amazing homemade tortillas so I use those 90% of the time. These are right in there though. Very good. Lard is the key and I have great lard from our pigs. 

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/157642/homemade-flour-tortillas/

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thetrim said:

And I'd love to hear more about those tortillas.  That's our gaping hole in this cook over here.

I would gladly send you a couple of packs of the H-E-B tortillas when I can find them. They freeze well and you can just throw them in a skillet to puff them up. They are seriously as good as any I make. 

These are really good too and I think they ship them. If not I’ll send you some if you want (they are refrigerated though). They are uncooked disks of dough that you cook up in a skillet. They are right in there too as far as really good tortillas go. It’s honestly not worth making them when I can get these or still hot tortillas from H-E-B bakery any time I want. It’s fun to do sometimes though. 

Either one of these will up your tortilla game immensely over regular store bought tortillas. 

RockyTopDW

Looks fantastic.  I never met a breakfast burrito I didn’t love. 

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Forgot to post a pic of the salsa. I think I’ll start a salsa thread. We have 5-6 in the rotation and we’ve gotten pretty good at those. 

thetrim

Thanks @The Cen-Tex Smoker. I really appreciate the offer, but I’ll hit up my family members in the area.  

If that doesn’t work, I’ll hit you up.   As a result, I’ll update my beneficiary information on my life insurance, investments, etc to make sure you’re properly rewarded. 

I’d really just like to meet up again at Valentina’s sometime in the not to distant future.   

lousubcap

Give HEB on-line a look.  I buy from them whenever I can especially given what the company returns to the community.  (Look at their hurricane Harvey response.)

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thetrim said:

Thanks @The Cen-Tex Smoker. I really appreciate the offer, but I’ll hit up my family members in the area.  

If that doesn’t work, I’ll hit you up.   As a result, I’ll update my beneficiary information on my life insurance, investments, etc to make sure you’re properly rewarded. 

I’d really just like to meet up again at Valentina’s sometime in the not to distant future.   

That’s right- forgot you had family here. I’ll tell you exactly what to get if you want them to send you a care package. 

saluki2007

I know there has been salsa threads on here before, but I would love to see your rotation.

lkapigian

Looks Amazing!

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saluki2007 said:

I know there has been salsa threads on here before, but I would love to see your rotation.

Im going to do a few this weekend. I’ll either add to what’s out there or start a new one if they aren't active. 

lousubcap

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saluki2007 said:

I know there has been salsa threads on here before, but I would love to see your rotation.

Im going to do a few this weekend. I’ll either add to what’s out there or start a new one if they aren't active. 

I know the high heater 24 habanero and roasted garlic salsa thread is not getting any posts right now but I can verify that the salsa is quite active.  I believe it has yet undocumented medicinal and healing powers.  But can also mess with your toilet paper consumption rate.