Healthy-Healthy Taco Salad to Ease Angry Birds and Angry Abby

I really should have titled this "healthy-esque" taco salad, considering I usually top it with a gallop of sour cream and hot-sauce and cheese. But if you omit those things, this is a great healthy meal. Although, in my opinion, it's a very filly lunch, and a not-so-filling dinner. If serving for dinner, I would serve it with a quesadilla or something a little more hearty if you have a hungry bunch.

Completely off the topic of food, but my husband is obsessed with the Angry Birds app on the iPad. I thought I was obsessed as we were fighting over it and beat all the levels in what seemed like record time. But then I learned what obsessed really was: he is googling and downloading tips and codes on how to get to the secret levels and the golden egg levels and blah blah blah. I mean, I guess it's only fair since I am blogging that he have the iPad to play Angry Birds on, but this is getting a little out of hand. That game makes me want to throw the iPad out the window sometimes when those stupid pigs won't die and just get a black eye and then smile all smug at you. Stupid pigs. I hate them. Angry Birds = Angry Abby.


Cheesy Factor (1 no cheese, 10 all cheese): 1 (this must be a record: like 3-4 recipes in a row with no cheese)
Time Factor (1 shortest, 10 longest): 3
Dummy Factor (1 easiest, 10 hardest): 2

Taco Salad for Two
1/2 lb ground turkey
1 package lettuce of choice
1/2 package of taco seasoning
Catalina Dressing
small can of corn
small can sliced black olives
shredded pepper jack or mexican blend cheese
7-8 grape tomatoes, sliced and diced
Tortilla chips
Sour Cream
1/3 cup of mix of chopped green pepper, red pepper, onion
chopped jarred jalapenos (optional)
Chalula hot sauce (optional)

In small sauce pan, heat corn. In saute/fry pan, add ground turkey, and pepper/onion mix. Brown meat, then add taco seasoning and cook as directed on package. In a large bowl, combine lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, and dressing, toss to coat. Top with meat mixture, corn, olives, (probably won't need whole cans, so eye ball the corn and the olives), then top/garnish with jalapenos (to taste), hot sauce, sour cream, and crunched up tortilla chips.

This is really a hodge podge recipe as things are really too hard to measure out. But I am guessing if you are reading a cooking blog, you have made a salad before and can figure out the proportions of lettuce to everything else. If you use a package of lettuce, a half lb of ground turkey, and a half package of taco seasoning, I think you will be okay. Everything else, just eye ball it as you are mixing it together. It's dang good though. And it's a nicely deceptive dish, meaning it looks like you cooked, but really, all you did is brown meat and toss a bunch of crap into a bowl with it. Presto!

And don't give me the bologna about ground turkey not tasting as good in tacos/Mexican dishes. You can't taste the difference in this, or most things, and you are full of it. I put you up to the taste test challenge any day of the week.