Our own version of Navajo tacos
Have you heard of Navajo tacos? I hadn't until I moved here. It's a taco with fry bread and a chili sauce or bean sauce (depending on who you get it from). We wanted to make some cheap dinners this week so we made bread and doubled the recipe. We put half in the freezer for scones and the other half made fry bread. Then we topped it with taco stuff and made a dressing out of salsa verde and ranch. It was really good.
The fruit salad is just fresh fruit with strawberry-banana yogurt. I stole that idea from someone else.
But....here's an example of my geniusness (Mike says this isn't a word but I like it):
I put the dough in a bag with Crisco lining the bag so it wouldn't stick to the bag. I then just put the bag in the freezer. Unfortunately, I didn't think about the fact that it was going to mold itself to the rest of the stuff. We have an ice bucket in our freezer even though the ice doesn't work. I put the dough in the bucket. It got completely stuck. We had to cut it in half to get it out. Another lesson learned.
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We've had so many fruit salads lately--all sorts of dressings. My traditional one is to use equal parts strawberry yogurt and sweetened whipping cream. My MIL makes one with yogurt, whipping cream and pudding mix (with a can of tropical fruit). I tried one recently that really makes it very desserty: 8 oz. cream cheese with 1/2 a can sweetened condensed milk (mixed until smooth)--yum. My cooking class had one where you do cream cheese with pineapple juice and some other stuff, but it seemed a little tart to me.
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What day are you coming to Utah? Oh yeah,I had what you call Navajo Tacos on my mission once. We had zone conference one time on the Oneida Indian Reservation and the members of the Branch (all authentic native americans) made us some. They didn't refer to them as "Navajo Tacos" though. Maybe they are enemies to the Oneida indians. Nonetheless, they were delicious and I still like the Navajo people.
It is funny that Lance had them on an indian reservation where they were not called N. Tacos.
Look forward to you guys coming out. Want to see your three boys. I have never even met little Isaac. In case you are wondering, daddy Mike is a boy, too.
Dad Clark