{"id":8702,"date":"2015-02-10T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2015-02-05T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:55:19","slug":"taco-tuesday-and-a-rough-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8702","title":{"rendered":"Taco Tuesday (and a Rough Recipe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0002\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8629\/16427752256_50378391e3_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0002\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8629\/16427752256_50378391e3_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0002\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a>For any of you who have been exposed (unwillingly or not) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Lego-Movie-Chris-Pratt\/dp\/B00IDI7WP2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lego Movie<\/em><\/a>, this title was supposed to be a joke\u2026 kind of. Truth is, dinnertime around here is not always the most relaxing, easygoing time of day for us. What I imagine will eventually be a time filled with discussions about the day and the occasional eating-while-sitting-down is currently a time of gentle reminders\u00a0<em>Oliver eat your dinner Milo eat your dinner Emil <strong>sit down<\/strong> and eat your DINNER!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve started letting the boys choose a dinner every week and I&#8217;ll make them whatever they want (except cake, cookies, ice cream, candy, hot dogs, etc.) within reason. Taco Tuesday is a common request, even though last week we had Taco Tuesday on a Wednesday. It&#8217;s actually awesome because everyone likes tacos and can add (or omit) anything they like, so everyone&#8217;s happy and sitting and eating! Hooray!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chicken Tacos with Creamy Avocado Sauce &amp; Caramelized Onions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trader Joe&#8217;s Pollo Asada (a couple of slightly spicy marinated chicken breasts \u2014 I appreciate the already-seasoned, time-saving feature here)<\/li>\n<li>cilantro (a handful)<\/li>\n<li>chopped tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>creamy avocado sauce (find recipe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bionicbriana.com\/2014\/03\/creamy-tomatillo-avocado-sauce.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) \u2014 great to make ahead<\/li>\n<li>half red onion, sliced thinly<\/li>\n<li>crunchy taco shells<\/li>\n<li>shredded sharp cheddar cheese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chop the raw marinated chicken into cubes and cook in a lightly oiled cast iron skillet over medium heat until lightly browned and cooked through. Set aside. Add a bit more oil to skillet and red onion, stirring well. To caramelize onions, continue to stir and add small bits of water to deglaze pan. The onions should turn a nice dark brown\/purple color as they soak up all the browned bits from the pollo asada. When fully cooked, remove from heat.<\/p>\n<p>Assemble tacos: first spread a spoonful of the avocado sauce onto a shell, followed by chicken, cheese, tomatoes, caramelized onions, and top with cilantro. Eat, enjoy, and repeat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For any of you who have been exposed (unwillingly or not) to Lego Movie, this title was supposed to be a joke\u2026 kind of. Truth is, dinnertime around here is not always the most relaxing, easygoing time of day for us. What I imagine will eventually be a time filled with discussions about the day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taco Tuesday (and a Rough Recipe)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[48,103,171],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-motherhood","tag-recipes","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8705,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions\/8705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}