Everyone in my house likes tacos. I like them in theory, but taste-wise the ones we make are blah, with refried beans, romaine, shredded cheese, and hot sauce.
What do you put in your tacos? My notes on this thread include pineapple, cabbage (cooked? raw?), squirrel, and some porkish object. Other suggestions?
I have always considered Tacos open to interpretation.
Sometimes I cook a pork roast in my instant pot and season it with pork broth, cumin, chili powder, chipotle powder, fresh garlic, fresh onion, fresh oregano, fresh cilantro (cilantro optional) and salt and pepper. When it's cooked, I shred the pork and fry it in a cast iron frying pan to get crispy parts on it. I usually serve this with steamed corn tortillas, shredded cabbage, mango salsa, tomatoes, avocado with crumbled queso fresco or queso añejo. You can generally find Mexican cheeses in the same area as cottage or ricotta cheese.
A different day, it's wash, rinse repeat but instead of using a pork roast I use a beef roast and beef broth. A cheap cut is fine because you're going to pressure or slow cook it and then shred it. For this one I fry the corn tortillas and fold them like a traditional taco. Instead of shredded cabbage I use shredded lettuce and instead of crumbled queso I use a combo of jack and cheddar cheese that is finely grated.
Instead of a roast you can use ground beef or ground chicken or shredded chicken.
My key "go to" spices for any kind of taco are ground cumin, chili powder, ground annatto, garlic powder, onion powder and sometimes if I want a bit more heat, chipotle chili powder.
As a topping, consider a black bean and corn salsa.
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