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Mini Tacos: Chicken & Cheese
| Quality | 7 |
| Quantity | 10 |
| Price | 10 |
| Value (Average of quality, quantity, price) | 9 |
| Ambient | N/A |
| Accessibility | 5 (Costco) |
| Vegetarian Options | — |
| Tuesday Deal | N/A |
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Let’s face it. As much as we’d like to, we can’t go out every Tuesday and enjoy the abundant tacos Tampa Bay joints have to offer. There will be Tuesdays where you have to accept the fact that you won’t be going out of your way to enjoy happy hour with a pair of tacos, or to your local Taco Bell if you’re so desperate enough. The solution?
Who says staying at home will take away your taco experience? Recently at Costco (in Brandon) I came across some samples–as you do in any wholesale environment. After sampling, and being unimpressed with salty queso & chips, super sweet mango salsa, I bumped into the lucky vendor handing out mini tacos with guacamole. They were good. Really good, actually. So I got a box! I knew there’d be a moment in time where I wouldn’t be able to go out for my tacos, and I’d need some emergency tacos at home. Today happened to be that day.
On my way home for the day, I knew I would need some guacamole with these tacos if I was going to go all out for this frozen meal. Luckily, Chipotle was on the way. We haven’t gotten to Chipotle’s delicious guacamole yet, or their great tasting steak and tofu, or even their great value for their burrito bowls. One day. For now, I can tell you that their guacamole is whipped in a perfect storm of ripe avocados, onions, cilantro, lime–all of these flavors can be found on your taste buds.
As for preparing the Mini Tacos…
They are microwaveable, but I wanted them made to perfection. What’s the path to perfection? Conventional oven.
And now we wait…
And wait…
And wait…
And wait…
You know the saying, “when you watch a pot boil, it takes longer”?
I just really wanted these tacos…
They came out hot and crispy after 12 minutes in the oven. The ooze you see flowing out of the tacos isn’t quite liquified, it seems to be more sauce-like.
I set these mini tacos in a way to be my dinner, not appetizer. I suppose they are meant to be more appetizer finger foods rather than an actual meal…
Inside these moist and crispy mini tacos, you can find whole chunks of white meat chicken, cheese, and miscellaneous sauce. Not overflowed, the sauce found in these mini help them be filled to the brim. “Bite size” is a bit of an overstatement, if you’re not the size of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, I’d say they’re two-bite sizes. This means I needed quite a few tacos to make this a dinner meal. I can’t imagine the microwave heating method to be superior than the conventional oven. The conventional oven allows for prime crispiness.
Don’t forget to dip and enjoy!
Taco Tuesday Tampa Bay 