Turkey was not the main dish served this past Thanksgiving in our house as my family opted to go with something a little more traditional for us: tacos.
With the coming of each Thanksgiving weekend every year, families have only one thing in mind and that is cooking dinner. "It's such as big stress to worry about cooking dinner that most of us women don't even enjoy Thanksgiving," said my mom, Maricela Tafoya.
This year however, my family decided to not stress about it and find the easy way to resolve this problem which was to hire a "taquero."
A "taquero" is the Spanish name given to someone who you can hire to go to special events such as birthday parties, weddings, quinceañeras, graduations and so on, to make tacos for the guests. This is a sort of small catering business that is typical in Mexican families.
For the past years my family has always made the usual for Thanksgiving which consists of turkey, ham, pies, mashed potatoes and salads. This year however we wanted to try something completely different and bring back a little more tradition into the celebration.
The taquero arrived at our house at around 3:00 o'clock and he was scheduled to be ready and start serving from 3:30 to 5:30 pm.
He came well prepared bringing his own plates, napkins, salsas, chips, dip, rice, beans of course the many meats used to make the tacos. There was 5 different type of meats to chose from and they were pork, chicken, asada, carnitas and chorizo.
There were around 30 people gathered at my house to celebrate Thanksgiving and because of the large amount of people the taquero remained busy for most of the time. There was even a line at some points to be able to order tacos.
The drinks were provided by us and we made sure that each family that came brought some sort of dessert to share with the rest of us.
This was sort of an "experimental" Thanksgiving because it had never been done before by our family and I would consider it a success.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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