GDR #2

My favorite recent memory of a meal is Thanksgiving.  The day always starts off with me getting up before daylight to start the turkey.  I use simple seasoning on it, just salt, pepper, and margarine.  Then, I take Arnold brand bread and chop it up real fine to make the stuffing.  After, the turkey is in the oven; it’s off to the gas station up the street to get the newspaper.  The newspaper is essential seeing as it is needed to plan the shopping trip for the next day.  By the time I get back to the house my better half is awake and getting ready to help me with the rest of the Thanksgiving feast.  We have a blast pealing the potatoes and snapping the green beans.  Then it’s time to wake up our daughter who is sixteen and can sleep till noon!!! We finish getting ready for the day; we get the meal together and packed up to take to her Mom and Dad’s house.  Then we spend the rest of the afternoon at Mom & Dad’s, eating and having fun.  It’s always a great day and so much fun.  I truly look forward to it every year!!

GDR #1 - "Taco Night"

Tonight in my house was “Taco Night”.  These awesome tacos are cooked by me at home, using an Old El Paso Hard & Soft Taco Dinner kit, ground chuck beef, & shredded cheese.  We use the hard and soft kit because my wife likes the hard shells, I like the soft shells, and our daughter likes both types of shells.  Our tacos are a little on the plain side since all three of us like them with just the meat and cheese inside the shell.

          The main ingredients besides the taco kit are obviously the meat and cheese.  The beef that I normally use is regular ground chuck, the 80 percent /20 percent kind, which we usually purchase at either Target or Wal-Mart.  Tonight, the ground chuck that I used to make our tacos came from Target.  Target’s ground chuck beef is a product of the USA and Canada, it is a product of the Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. from Wichita, Kansas. 

          The cheese that we always use for our tacos is Kraft Finely Shredded Mild Cheddar Cheese.  We like using this type of cheese because the fine shreds melt easier over the seasoned beef.  Another reason we use always use Kraft cheese is because of the consistent quality of the cheese.     Kraft cheese always seems to have the freshest taste with a creamy texture when it melts in the taco shells.  We also like to use Kraft because it is made right here in the USA.

          The third and final component of our amazing tacos is the Old El Paso Hard & Soft Shell Taco Dinner Kit.  Besides the “shell” reasons I expressed earlier, we use this specific taco kit is because we like the mild flavor to the seasoning that is used on the beef.  All three of us also like the taste of the shells.   When we combine these three components with the quality time we get to spend as a family sharing this dinner, it’s a great time I look forward to every time we have “Taco Night”!