i'm sayin'.
without it, stuffs still tight, but it's just not as tight.
yeah...that's a thing.
and yesterday was tuesday, so i mean, rules is rules,
and mexican magic kinda needs cilantro.
alas,
the grocery store doesn't give a sh!t about what my dinner tastes like....
ANYway,
even without the freshest freshness,
i still managed to make something pretty F*ing fresh-
behold, via teleport:
TEMPEH TACO TUESDAY!
yeah.
i zipzapped my homeboy todd, and his lovely wifey, which was awesome.
feeling flush with a victorious day of tattooing under my belt,
i went home and activated a heap of hottness, mounded in mountains
of massive bean bombardment.
that's real.
tempeh? it's soybeans, bruh.
plus black beans, AND refritas picante??
too much is the right amount, neighbors.
no question.
guys,
that tempeh is expert.
the recipe, if you can even call it that, is too easy-
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tempeh taco crOmbles!
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in a lil pot,
you've gotta combine 1 block of temepeh, chopped up all fine and nice,
sauteed with olive oil and cloves of garlic, and 2 T onion,
just to soften those jauns, before the burly bath in broth begins.
uh-huh.
1 cup veggie broth, plus 1/2 tsp ea GPOP;
and 1 T nootch;
and smoked, hot, AND regular red paprikas;
a few shakes of oregano, and dried cilantro bummer) and coriader seed,
which is the same but not the same at all, and a healthy blast of cumin,
and a few glugs of ho'sauce,
and time enough on medium heat for all the liquid to soak all the way in....
that's when you transfer the whole thing to a pan.
why a pan?
so you can sizzle that stuff with jalapeno, and sweet baby bell pepper,
fresh onion, and poblano pepper, too.
how much of each? asmuch as you'd like. it's just tacos, bro. eyeball it, guesstimate,
broad strokes and emotional swaths of ingredients are good for you.
no joke.
get it all good and toasty, and spoon it all over your soft flour tacos.
look, you can use soft corn tortillas, too.
just miss me with those bummersville crispies, kiddo.
hard shells are NOT invited.
i don't dig on 'em, not once, not ever.
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nootch-boosted oil-free fat-free refritas?
i doo-doo that freaky sh!t.
blarpity brown blops of pinto paste are ON the list, for sure.
i have to add red onion, jalapeno, nootch (obvi), GPOP, poblano pepper,
and ho'sauce by the spoonful.
regular-A* beans are good, but have you ever had mine?
the're better. and better is as better does, so do better, and be better,
and don't settle for lazy beans.
it seems so simple,
but nobody is out here repping that level-eleven refried scene like me.
i used to span time with a woman who adamantly insisted
that i didn't need to add a huge pat of vegan butter to the pot.
turns out, that IS correct. i can't tell a difference, duders.
all those years of fattening up my face were for nuthin'.
i leaned something, man. that still happens every day.
just not in time to make somebody feel appreciated and listened to.
awwww.
then again, i could just tell her she was onto something...
c'mon- that's even less likely than me ever adding butterish to the pot again.
ha!
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and black beans, and lettuce, and carrot, and red onion sprankles,
and purple flippin' cabbage, all doing their part to make my taco time the best time.
that's pretty cool.
limes? F* yeah. limes are awesome.
also, limes are seedless, so no pips appear in your floury flaps.
i appreciate that.
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and that salsa?
yo, on the ones, that fire roasted business is the TRUTH.
i've been working on my recipe,
and without those fresh leaves,
this was one was an honest success, but SO light in the A*.
it needed the bright bright brightness of that cilantro spike.
next time, man. there's always a tuesday, every week.
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oh, sh!!!!!!!!!!,
AND AVO-F*ING-CADO, friends.
ugh.
i almost forgot about it;
what an A*-hole i'd have been, then, huh?
lucky for us, i remembered.
avocado makes you cooler, and taller, and more attractive.
i'm positive that's accurate.
try it for yourself.
i think i'm onto something.
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i'm going to connecticut.
yup.
that's real.
for the first time in two months, i'm taking a couple days.
will i be driving for 25% of it?
of course.
that's how it goes.
but,
tomorrow, my eldest child, harvest, is graduating high school.
let me repeat that.
my kid. is graduating, from high school. tomorrow.
as in: already.
as in: headed off on her own in the fall.
as in:
i'm so old, i might need a new hip.
as in: i'm so very proud of the person she's become.
as in: this is it.
wow.
more on that as it unfolds.
a trip back home is always an action-packed whirlwind,
and this one will be no different....
except, i'm also adding crabtree to the mix.
uh-huh.
just to keep things interesting.
read as: three thousand percent more stresssful.
big fun, proud moments, good food, long drives, hard styles,
and all the rest of it, without rest, without stopping, without question-
it's ALL really happening,
and that's all there ever is to it;
never quiet, never soft.....
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