Breakfast Tacos

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I made a post a few weeks ago about how I have been taking my extra free time during quarantine to cook more and learn new recipes that I likely would not have tried to conquer otherwise. Learning about tacos and constantly watching Mexican cooking videos on YouTube has caused Mexican food to sit at the forefront of my attempts — more specifically, breakfast tacos and burritos.

I’ve had a fair amount of breakfast burritos in my life, but only once before I started whipping up my own had I actually eaten breakfast tacos — or had even seen them on a menu. During Spring Break last year, my friends and I visited our friend Izzy’s hometown of Houston, which essentially became a Tex Mex food tour (and bar crawl) like no other. One morning when we were feeling a little worse for wear, Izzy took us to this amazing Mexican breakfast restaurant and that was the first and only time I had seen or had breakfast tacos.

Crazy, right? Evidently breakfast tacos are an absolute phenomenon and I had lived twenty-one years in complete ignorance. When I saw the video above, in which Bon Appetit’s Alex Delany goes on a crazy huge breakfast taco tour in Austin, TX, I thought: hmm, I guess this is actually a thing? And then in American Tacos, Ralat dedicates a whole chapter to breakfast tacos and, when I saw that, I thought: okay, this definitely is a thing, so why the hell hasn’t New Jersey gotten on board?

So then I started making myself some breakfast tacos! Don’t get me wrong, my quarantine efforts have nothing on that delicious meal from that restaurant in Houston. But there’s just something about putting everyday breakfast foods inside a tortilla that makes them so much better.

The only negative of my exposure to and subsequent slight obsession with breakfast tacos is that, now, I don’t even want to eat eggs if they’re not in taco form — seems like a waste of time!