Liz’s Healthy Table Podcast Episode 35: Taco! Taco! Taco! with Sara Haas, RDN + Cookbook Giveaway
August 22, 2018
If recipes like Creamy Avocado Sauce Chicken Tacos, Apricot Maple Pork Tenderloin Tacos with Pickled Pineapple, and Mexican Grilled Corn Tacos sound good to you, today’s show is sure to hit the spot.
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My guest is chef and registered dietitian, Sara Haas, RDN, and she joins me with tips and recipes for making fast, healthy, and delicious tacos for you and your family. We’ve got a taco for everyone. And if you’re like me and LOVE S’mores, wait till you hear about Sara’s recipe for S’mores Tacos.
“Don’t buy the taco kits. Make your own taco seasoning on your own.”
– Sara Haas, RDN
Cookbook Giveaway:
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Taco!Taco! Taco! Over 100 Recipes for Everybody. (This giveaway is U.S. only, please.) To enter, post a comment at the end of this post and tell me about YOUR favorite taco recipe and/or why you would love to win this book. Giveaway ends September 5th, 2018 at noon EST. Good luck!
Mexican Grilled Corn Tacos. Find the recipe on the LHT blog.
Show Highlights:
- What is a taco?
- Does a taco have to be in a traditional taco shell?
- Corn tortillas, flour tortillas, soft and crunchy tortillas. There are so many varieties!
- Sara shares a whole wheat tortilla recipe from her new book, Taco!, Taco!, Taco!
- Should you use store-bought taco seasoning or make your own?
- Sara shares an easy taco seasoning recipe.
- Tips for preparing and cooking fish for tacos.
- Healthy tacos can also be very flavorful and delicious!
- Combinations of cuisines are included in Sarah’s taco recipes. Mexican. Asian, you name it!
- Liz describes Sara’s Mexican Grilled Corn Tacos from page 148 of Sara’s book. It’s on the blog.
- Flat-bottomed tacos make filling shells easy.
- Sara shares how to make S’mores tacos and gives tips for making the shells.
- Allow your kids to “build” food and experiment in the kitchen.
- Sara shares all about Kids in the Kitchen
- Follow the #kidsinthekitchen on social media to see what people are posting.
- Sara shares an awesome, yogurt-based taco sauce recipe.
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Links:
My email: liz@lizshealthytable.com
- Super Healthy Kids
- The Parents On Demand Network
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I love black bean and sweet potato tacos. Winning the book would be amazing since I only make those!! I need to try new recipies!
This was so much fun Liz! Thanks so much for having me on your show!
I would adore winning this cookbook! My favorite taco at the moment are fish or shrimp tacos! Protein, mango guacamole, pickled onions, cabbage or sriracha sour cream. The possibilities are endless! I would love to get new ideas from this cookbook that would incorporate new ingredients for my kids to try. We love to camp, so tacos would be a neat meal idea for that too!
Tacos are one of my favorite foods and leftovers are rare at my house!
I love all tacos! But my favorite are traditional ground beef with black beans. I would like to win the cookbook to try some new taco recipes.
I would love to win this book because tacos are one of my favorite foods especially fish tacos.
I’m w/ you on the fish tacos! My favorite too.
Hi, there! Loved the show!! Would love to win this cookbook to gift to my grandson who is now on his own finishing @ university. He loves tacos. I think he would really enjoy having all kinds of healthy, tasty & easy options for cooking a meal! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love tacos but need inspiration and some ideas for creativity! We had ground turkey tacos tonight with the usual fixings. My 1 year old and 3 year old girls devoured their dinner. This book sounds like it’s full of yummy and innovative recipes to keep my family satisfied!
What kind of taco shells? Soft flour? Soft corn? Crunchy?
Crunchy, but we like soft flour too. Interested in making homemade tortillas after listening to the show!
I want to learn how to make different kinds of healthy tacos.
I love my tacos with ground beef, cheddar jack, onions, guacamole, tomatoes, black olives, lettuce and tomatoes.
My favorite taco has grilled fish, cabbage, tomato, green onions, avocado cream, and pico de gallo.
If you don’t like tacos, I’m nacho type! Love tacos!
I am not sure that I have a favorite type of taco… I just know that having chopped avocado or guacamole on it is a must. I’d love to get more creative with fillings for tacos and this cookbook would be perfect!
We love tacos with our own homegrown beef!
Homegrown beef? Wow. Where do you live? #jealous.
I love a taco with shredded chicken in a green salsa! Green salsa is my favorite!
I would love to win this book so I can make new taco recipes for my family. We all love tacos and it’s so hard to decide on our favorite one, but I would have to say it’s a grilled fish taco with cabbage and fresh avocados and lime juice.
Thats smores taco sounds delicious! Thanks Sara! I love me some tacos 🙂
Right now chicken tacos are the go to at our house. I would love to learn some new recipes as tacos are a favorite of my kids!!
My fav are tongue tacos
I ? all things tacos ?! I think the avacado sauce mentioned in the show sounds amazing! My family and I do taco night every week and it’s a total win every time. This book looks like a very great resource and inspirational guide to use weekly! Love it!!
I LOVE TACOS!! Our favorite lately is grilled strips of bell peppers and onions coated with olive oil and homemade taco seasoning with guacamole, sour cream, cheese and salsa!
Oh I love tacos. I would love this cookbook so that I could learn more ways to enjoy them. My favorite tacos are grilled shrimp tacos!
My favorite recipe for tacos is spicy shrimp tacos that I love because of the chipotle peppers used in the marinade along with fresh lime juice and honey. The addition of a slaw mixed with a little mayonnaise, lime juice, lime zest, and chili powder adds to the flavor of these tacos. I would love to win this book because tacos are something that we eat on a weekly basis, and I love experimenting and trying out new recipes.
I would love to win the taco cookbook! I need some new ideas for sure. Keep having the beef tacos all the time and need a change. Thank you for the opportunity to win!!
Love tacos fish, oyster, chicken, and some many others are my favorites. I would love the cookbook to make them at healthier alternatives.
I love to cook fish tacos for my family and top it with plantains. Our family loves all tacos and I would love to get fresh ideas for new tacos and toppings!! Thank you!
I would love to win this book because we love Taco Tuesday and need some new ideas. We always put the same old boring things in our tacos
Fish tacos are my absolute favorite! I also live to stretch ground turkey with veggies – o usually do sweet potatoes, beans, onions, tomatoes – whatever I have on hand 🙂
Tacos are great! I need some new pizzazz to my ordinary ground beef or ground turkey tacos!
My go to taco is ground beef with black beans lettuce and salsa. I would love some inspiration for new taco recipe ideas!
Ground beef with refried beans , lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream is the best
I love black bean, Poblano, and sweet potato tacos! I also love traditional carne asada street tacos with creamy spicy green sauce! Homemade turkey Chorizo, egg and potato tacos, shrimp and mango salsa tacos with creamy lime sauce…yum! I’m pregnant and the only consistent craving I have is tacos. I’ll eat anything in a taco shell! This book would give me even more recipes to try with my 9yr old son, he loves tacos too!
Tacos are so fun! I would love to win this book of creative recipes!
I love tacos! I think that my favorite is a salmon taco with a corn & cabbage slaw but I am always seeking another perfect taco recipe so I really need to dive into Sara’s new book!
We usually make our own taco seasoning mix. I like to make baked tostada shells from corn tortillas.
We have chicken or beef tacos about once a week, but I could seriously use a bit more *spice* in our taco routine!
Would love to win the book. Tacos are a delicious way to eat more vegetables.
I don’t ever follow a recipe for tacos as it is mostly leftover food we use. I would like to change that 🙂
I love making fresh fish tacos topped with cole slaw and avacado sauce. I bake the fish in the oven with a liytle olive oil and seasoning and they are so good that even my two little girls love them.
I like making tacos with zucchini, yellow squash and black beans
We like tacos with grilled fish and cabbage slaw
I would love to win this book because we could sure use some fresh taco ideas
My family loves tacos but we are in a taco rut. We keep making the same taco recipe! I’d love to win this cookbook so we can try some new ones!