Taco Meat Recipe

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As I waited for the meat to turn greyish-brown, I mashed and chopped it into tiny bits to fit inside the thin taco shells later on. I opened a fresh box of taco shells afterwards and popped them into the toaster oven as the taco meat was about ready to be served. After two minutes had gone by, I opened the toaster oven and carefully pulled out the sizzling-yellow, lightly burnt taco shells with metal tongs and propped them onto a paper

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