Marinated and fried Smelts (fish). Paired them with a dijon, mango, cucumber, bell pepper salsa. DO lettuce wraps really need an introduction!!!! I THINK NOT!
This one takes some prep ahead time due to marination. once marination is done you can get it together in 30 min flat. TIME ME!!
We wanted to do taco Tuesday but did not want the extra carbs so we figured why not sub lettuce for the tacos and still enjoy some deliciousness. Of course the soy sauce in the marinade gave it more of an Asian flare. Still delicious!!! SO enjoy our take on Taco Tuesday give it a try and let us know how it turned out!!
Smelt are little fish that spawn in rivers and live their lives at sea, similar to what salmon do. They can be eaten whole, head, and tail. They are commonly fried the only way in my opinion to get the delicious crunch). They are usually sold frozen in the store and worth every penny!!!
If you are worried about over fishing, Smelts are actually underfished according to many ocean groups so the are more conscience choice for fish. So eat away my friends!! let your taste buds melt with smelts!!!! hehe pun?
Cant be forgetting this!!!!!
Being that these are lettuce wraps the logical route would be to go Asian as the idea for this came after seeing the Korean Ssam. But since the goal was to play with Taco Tuesday figured we should go the Mexican route. You can bet one of these days we will definitely go back to Korea for the Ssam!
The Taco, back to Wikipedia we go!! Yes I am aware Wikipedia is not considered a scholarly source!! its just so easy!!! So no do not use this for your academic citations!!! you will fail if you do!! Anyways.
Tacos according to Wikipedia pre date the Spanish arrival in Mexico. Apparently there is evidence to suggest that indigenous people living in the valley of Mexico region traditionally are tacos filled with small fish ( Wikipedia had no citation, haha!!
Anyho according to the Smithsonian Magazine. Taco origins are unknown. "Mexican silver miners likely invented the taco, Mexican Americans in the Southwest reinvented it, and Glen Bell mass-marketed it via the crunchy Taco Bell shell"
The cempasúchil flower, also know as the Flor de Muertos aka the Mexican Marigold with a unique scent is ubiquitous during the Día De Los Muertos celebrations. The flowers are an essential part of the offerings Mexicans prepare for the climax of the traditional celebration held to honor the departed. It is believed that the scent of the flower guides the souls of the deceased on the way to the offering that awaits them in the world of
Legend has it that two young Aztecs, Xóchitl and Huitzilin would spend all their time together playing. As they grew older they spent all their time together and of course fell in love. Xóchitl was the woman and Huitzilin her warrior lover. Top of a nearby mountain where they would offer flowers to the sun god Tonatiuh, they declared their love for each other even beyond death.
As life would have it Huitzilin, was called away to war and was killed in battle. When news of his death reached Xóchitl she was devastated. With her heart broken, she begged Tonatiuh to let her join her love in the afterlife. Tonatiuh, moved by her prayers shined his rays upon her turning her into the cempasúchil flower resembling the sunlight.
A humming bird landed on the newly created flower and touched it with its beak, opening the twenty petals. Releasing a unique and lovely scent that filled the fields. The hummingbird was her love Huitzilin, reincarnated. And thus, the two young lovers were reunited again.
"Legend has it, that so long as there are hummingbirds and cempasúchil flowers on the earth, the two lovers will be together."
Marinated and fried Smelts (fish). Paired them with a Dijon, mango, cucumber, bell pepper salsa
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