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Cilantro Lime Pulled Pork Tacos

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Cilantro Lime Pulled Pork Tacos on a red platter

If someone told me they didn’t like tacos my first thought would be ” Who the heck doesn’t like tacos?” my next thought would be ” I don’t think we can be friends anymore”  #sorrynotsorry lol .If I had to eat one thing the rest of my life it would probably be tacos. They are versatile and can be made from any kind of meat or even with veggies. Anytime we give our kids a choice of places to go eat they almost always chose a Mexican place, some places better than others . To say the least we all love Mexican food and it’s flavor but no matter what  margaritas always make everything better and so do tacos !! These Cilantro Lime Pulled Pork Tacos are not exception.

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French Bread Taco Pizza with Chipotle Ranch

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A slice of taco french bread pizza on a plate

When I was in my early twenties I was  full of energy and enthusiasm . I thought I wanted to live in the big city of Houston , work at a major hospital helping save lives and stamp out disease. To make a long story short I am a small town girl and that only lasted about a year before I headed back to Louisiana . In that year I lived with my cousin Cathy Lynn and those are memories I will cherish forever.  Some of the fondest memories I have of that time is late night pokeno games with my grandmother and Aunt and then it would be Cathy Lynn and I whipping up meals in a tiny kitchen on a shoestring budget. We needed money for our weekend trips and shenanigans , not groceries lol. This was in 1995 so only rich people had computers and Pinterest didn’t exist yet  and all we had was our imagination . One of the things we made often was french bread pizzas , it was delicious and affordable. Taco french bread pizza was one of our favorites and this is just a little more grown up version of what we made back then. It is still just as yummy and affordable.

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