Tinas Taco Salad Food

DANA'S TACO SALAD

Steps:

• Place lentils and water in a pot. Bring water to boil, reduce to simmer. Cook for 30 minutes or until tender.
• Cook the turkey in a skillet over medium heat until no longer pink, 8 to 12 minutes. Stir the cooked lentils, 1 cup of water, and the taco seasoning mix into the turkey. Bring mixture to a boil; reduce heat to low and simmer until liquid is nearly gone, about 5 minutes.
• Combine the lettuce, avocado, tomatoes, olives, kidney beans, lentil-and-turkey mixture, and Catalina dressing in a large bowl and toss until combined.

TINA'S TACO SALAD

Steps:

• Brown the hamburger with the taco seasoning, saving some of the seasoning for the dressing.
• Mix together the kidney beans, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, and olives in a large bowl.
• Whisk together Thousand Island dressing, salsa, seasoning, and sugar in a small plastic storage container.
• Combine the salad and meat.
• Pour the crushed Doritos over the salad.
• When serving, pour the dressing over the salad AFTER it has been put on the plate. Otherwise, the Doritos will get soggy after a while.

TINY TACO SALADS

Steps:

• Set a skillet over medium-high heat and add a little oil. Add the ground beef and cook, breaking it up with a wooden spoon, until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Drain off any oil and season with salt and pepper.
• Evenly distribute the lettuce among the chip cups. Top each with some ground beef, cheese, salsa, sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes and cilantro.

FAMOUS TACO SALAD

Steps:

• Brown and drain the ground beef. Set aside on a paper towel to continue draining and cooling.
• Dressing: Mix the can of undrained chili beans, the thousand island dressing and the taco seasoning in a bowl. Stir well and set it to the side. (Makes a mean dip for that open bag of tortilla chips you have sitting there! You are cooking dinner, you must be slightly hungry!)
• Obtain a LARGE bowl. In that bowl place the following: 1 head of torn lettuce, the shredded cheese, chopped tomatoes and olives.
• Put the hamburger on top of the salad mixings.
• Find a small child, or a small child at heart and place a slit in the chip bag to avoid a disastrous explosion. Have child smush chips to small pieces. I am sure that "smush" is a highly scientific culinary term! DO NOT MAKE CHIP POWDER, just small pieces. Dump the chips on top of the lettuce mixture.
• Pour the DRESSING on top of lettuce mixture.
• Mix well and enjoy. This is where you add the avocado if you are so inclined.
• Leftovers may be stored in airtight container in the fridge in order to create a congealed "taco salad mess" the next day. Not pretty but quite tasty.