As my last post for 2011, I decided I had to do something great! I had to write about my most favorite food of all time! Taco salad! This salad has been around as long as I can remember, probably since the invention of Doritos. It combines ground beef, onions, kidney beans, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, black olives, ranch dressing, and crumbled up nacho cheese Doritos! This is seriously the way to present a salad to either a child or a grown up man-child that refuses to eat anything green. Just cover it in Doritos crumbs. This salad has evolved along with me through my life. When I was little, there was no variance from the above listed recipe. Then I became a vegetarian. My mom and I switched out the ground beef with ground Boca “meat” and didn’t tell my Dad or brothers. They were none the wiser. Then, I decided ground beef is too fatty and not good for you. So, I switched to ground turkey. No matter what I have substituted in or out, this salad has stood the test of time. So, I am celebrating the end of another year and the beginning of a new one …

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