Loaded Tex-mex Potato

                                   Loaded Tex-Mex Potato

This is the Potato Taco Option 2 recipe just like mentioned in Option 1, Taco Skillet.

This is what you need:

- 1 very large Potato, 1 for each

- Taco package of your liking

- 1 lbs ground meat

- green onions

- Taco cheese

- Guacamole (garnish)

- Sour cream (garnish)

This is how you do it:

Wash the Potato but leave the skin on. Poke all around the Potato with a fork. Oil it and salt it. Put it in a 350 degrees pre-heated oven for at least 1 hrs or until fork soft. Meaning, you should be able to poke a fork into the Potato easily because its soft. 

In the meantime, pan fry the ground meat and add the Taco seasoning according to the Package. Add the cheese so it can melt. 

When the Potato is done, take it out and let sit for some min until its cool enough for you to handle. Do not turn off the oven. Cut the Potato carefully length wise but leave some edge so you can scrape out the most of the soft Potato. Add the scraped out Potato into the meat-cheese mixture and stir well. Now add the mixture back into the Potato and cover with more cheese. Put it back in the oven for around 15 min to heat it back up and to melt the cheese. Its basically cooked already at this point. 

Serve it loaded with Guacamole, green onions and Sour cream. It's super delicious 

Guten Appetit 

Potato Taco Skillet

                                          Potato Taco Skillet 

If you love Taco just as much as we do, I have 2 options for you. This is option 1. I will post option 2 right after this one. You can do this as a vegetarian dish or you can add the ground meat to it. That's up to you. 

This is what you need:

- hard boil Potatoes, depending on how many in your family. I usually count 2 per person

- 1/2 lbs ground meat (optional)

- 1 -2 Packs of Taco seasoning to your liking

- green onions

- Tomato salsa

- Guacamole

- Corn chips

- Sour cream

- Cheese to your liking. I like the Taco cheese for this one

This is how you do it: 

Clean and cut the Potatoes into 1 inch cubes. I usually boil them for like 5 min so they get a head start. Pan fry them in oil in a big skillet until crispy and brown. You also may fry the meat in a separate skillet so you can remove the water. When meat and potatoes and browned, mix them together, add the water like stated on the Taco package and add the Seasoning to it. Stir good and reduce the liquid like stated. 

I got me those cute little skillets from Amazon for everyone to add whatever they like. My daughter isn't crazy about most of the ingredients so I can leave them out better for her plus it looks professional and cute. I add the potato-meat mixture onto the skillet and add the cheese on top. Put them in the microwave for just 30 sec or until the cheese is melted. Serve having all ingredients on the table for everyone to load themselves. I like all of it so that's what I put on mine. 

Guten Appetit

Adobo Chicken

                                      Adobo Chicken

This is a Philipino dish. We really like this one after finding this recipe online. I am sharing this with you so you don't have to find a good one. 

I know it's been a while since I posted a recipe. I am sorry about that but I was very sick. I hope you try this recipe once and fall in love with it just as we did. 

This is what you need: 

Marinade (for at least 20 min or over night)

- 1.5 lbs of chicken thighs or chicken quarter. Best boneless but I also use with bones

- 3 garlic cloves, minced

- 1/3 cup soy sauce

-1/3 cup and 2 TBSP white vinegar

- 3 dried Bay leaves

for cooking

- 2 TBSP Oil, seperated

- 3 garlic cloves, minced

- 1 small brown onion, diced

- 1 1/2 cups water

- 2 TBSP brown sugar

- 1 TBSP whole black Pepper (optional since we don't like to pick them out)

- green onions for serving

This is how you do it:

Combine the chicken and Marinade in a ziplock bag or big bowl. Leave at least 20 min or over night. 

Heat 1 TBSP oil in a big skillet over high heat. Remove the chicken from the marinade but keep the marinade. Sear chicken on both sides in the pan until browned, around 1 min on each side. Remove chicken from the pan. Heat the remaining oil in the pan and cook the garlic and the onion for about 1 1/2 min..

Add the reserved marinade, water, sugar and black pepper (again, optional). Bring to a simmer and then reduce heat to medium and cook for about 5 min..

Add the chicken smooth side down back in the pan. Simmer uncovered for about 20-25 min. and turn the chicken around after about 15 min.. Do not stir and let the sauce reduce to a jam like consistency. 

If the sauce isn't thick enough, remove the chicken onto a plate and let the sauce simmer a bit longer. When thick enough, put the chicken back into the sauce so it can glace it.

Serve with the green onions and sticky rice or whatever your heart desire. We love, love, love sticky rice. 

Guten Appetit