Thread: Tacos, street size

Various species met their ultimate fate this way: whiting, spanish, redfish, trout, and sheepshead:

1. The protein, lightly breaded and fried per usual
2. Avacado lime sauce, kind of like a crema (avacado, lime pulp, greek yogurt, salt, pepper, garlic, cilantro, all blended)
3. Hot black bean slaw (black beans, onions, garlic, jalaps, shredded slaw mix, a few dashes habanero vinegar)


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I first heard of fish tacos in San Diego in 2000.
My son was raving about them (and he was raised on fish & grits ;-)
He took me to a place named "Rubio's"
And it was everything he claimed it would be.
I never dreamed of fish (or seafood) in a taco, and could not imagine all the ingredient combinations possible.

Yours' looks great!

Delicious looking taco, yum!
I will be stealing your guac sauce, oh yeah.

Rubio's Fish Tacos, one of the few things I miss in SoCal, along with In-n-Out Burgers and a select few others.
Brings back some memories.
Best move I ever made was to leave California back in '95.

Much appreciated coming from you two. I go to Vegas every year for a few days, for work. In and Out is always on the list.

Full disclosure: the sauce is a slightly modded recipe I saw on some guy's youtube channel. The black bean slaw was an accident...had a tiny amount of slaw, and a small amount of black beans...threw em together and warmed them on the stove with some added jalaps and a dash of spicy vinegar and voila: happy accident.

I lived in Los Angeles back in the first half of the 1970's and met the TACO then. When I moved back to the south I brought the idea with me and since I have always fished and loved to eat fish it was just one of many convenient ways to eat fish. I was dumb and did not know that it was a novel concept until restaurants in the south started advertising them as a "great new thing" several years ago. I have been feeding them to friends for years and always got positive feedback. Dressing them is only limited by your own imagination and I have used many many different types of fish and in them and never had a complaint. Personally I usually go with a little tartar sauce, chopped onions, lettuce, and salsa. If handy I will throw on a sliced dill pickle.