2 Ways to Make Taco Night Feel Fancy

We are lucky to have neighbors who are eager to share their harvests with us!  We've gotten tons of tomatoes, sweet peppers and jalapenos.  I'm determined to not let a single thing go to waste so my menu has been heavily influenced by all this yummy produce.

We did Taco Tuesday this week and I did two really easy things that made our tacos feel so fancy.

1. Make a fresh pico to top the tacos

2. Slice fresh jalapenos to add to your tacos

This pico was SO GOOD!

I had some fresh corn leftover from the night before so I added in and it was the star!

Recipe:

Fresh tomatoes - I used a mix some golden tomatoes, grape tomatoes and then bigger ones.

Fresh corn

Diced onion - I used yellow and would have added in purple if I had it.

1 green bell pepper

juice of half a lemon

salt and pepper to taste

There's no way to mess up this combo of these ingredients.  Just use what you have and chop everything up into bite sized pieces.  It's best served fresh, but it also keeps for a day or two in the fridge.

We enjoyed this pico on soft tacos, nachos and little taco pizzas all week long.

For the fresh jalapenos, I love the crunch of them and Kevin loves the heat.  I remove the seeds from my half and leave the seeds in for him.  It's super easy.  Cut the stem off and then slice about half the jalapeno as is, deseed the remaining half and slice it up.  Best of both worlds!

 

It's a delicious time of year!