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TACO LASAGNA A Fantastic Ground Beef Weeknight Meal
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Apr 14, 2025
TACO LASAGNA Perfect for Taco Tuesday. A Fantastic Ground Beef Weeknight Meal. Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/taco-lasagna/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media
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hello everyone welcome back i'm
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Katherine with Katherine's Plates look
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who I have in the kitchen yep hello hi
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got Joseph and his girlfriend Megan now
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y'all have seen them before back in
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November and they made a really
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delicious dessert it was like an M&M
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candy for Christmas but today we are
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making You remember that yeah so today
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we are making taco lasagna it's a really
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delicious easy weekn night meal i'm
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going hands-free today they need to
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learn how to cook oh joy all right all
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right you guys we're going to go ahead
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and get started this is a Mexican
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cuisine now don't come at me with that
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okay it's more of a taco flavored dish
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layered like a lasagna so there's no
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Italian flavors in here all right we're
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going to get started i got to teach
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these two how to cook let's get started
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so in a large deep skillet Joseph is
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going to break up and start browning up
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two lbs of ground
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beef now while he's doing that Megan is
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going to take these onions and get those
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ready we're just going to dice them up
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to give it some flavor to the ground
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beef so I'm going to show her the first
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one just cut off the ends just like
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that and then just kind of do
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that and go down and then just peel that
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outer layer
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off there we go want to try the second
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one there you go and that's it and then
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just peel off that other layer
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and then what we're going to do is we're
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going to take our chopper we're just
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going to chop those onions up joseph
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says he wants a chopper
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it'd probably be helpful all right so
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what I want you to do is just cut it in
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quarters so just cut down the
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half mhm there you go and then just cut
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that in half and that in
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half get it all right now we're going to
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put it in here let's And then whack it
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you can get it there you
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go now that's pretty good for somebody
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that's never diced an onion before
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now what we're going to do is we're
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going to take the diced onion and we're
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going to add it to the ground beef so it
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can start softening down and adding some
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flavor now if y'all don't like onion you
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don't have to put it in but it does add
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a nice
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flavor now we're going to make this in a
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9 by13 baking dish
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i'm using the throwaway ones because
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when my kids come up here to get
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leftovers I never get the dishes back
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ain't that the truth
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so they can get this and I don't have to
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worry about it yeah you owe us some
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dishes there son yeah what happened to
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my 9 by13
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n what
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okay so we're almost done with the
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ground beef and the
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onion i'm gonna have Megan open up some
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cans here we're gonna be opening up one
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can of kernel corn you want the
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whole and then we've got two cans of
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Rotel tomatoes these are diced tomatoes
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with green chilies and we're using the
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mild
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today all right I'm going to take this
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and I'm going to go drain it all right
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your turn
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go Megan go
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okay it is time to drain out any excess
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grease that you have in your hamburger
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so Joseph's going to push everything
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aside and then Megan is going to put
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some paper towels in there and we're
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going to sop up any excess grease in
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there and then just push into the meat
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the onion releases a lot of liquid yeah
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it does and then depending on the type
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of hamburger you have 8020 or 7030 could
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release a lot of excess grease also
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there you go good job
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are y'all watching them look at these
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two aren't they the cutest they're going
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strong almost two years oh all right
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right so what we're going to do now is
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start flavoring our ground beef so we're
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going to add some water into it so
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Megan's going to add about 1/4 cup of
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water to the ground beef and then we're
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going to start
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flavoring now while she's adding that
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let's talk about our taco seasoning you
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can get two packets of taco seasoning
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from your store or you can put in six
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tablespoons of your homemade taco
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seasoning or if you have taco seasoning
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in the jar you can use that doesn't that
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look good right there smells good you
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can find my taco seasoning blend on my
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website
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catherine'splates.com make your own so
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Megan's going to add six tablespoons and
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then add that to there and then Joseph's
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going to stir it
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in and six
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and then while Joseph's stirring that in
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Megan's going to add in the corn that
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we've drained this is one can and it is
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15
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oz there you go and then we're going to
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add in both cans of Rotel now this is
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the mild right here
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i just made a mess as usual that happens
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in this kitchen these are Yes it does
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these are 10 ounces each don't drain
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them it's flavor there you go
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there we go there you go
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all right joseph's gonna get that all
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mixed up you're going to want to simmer
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this for just a few minutes probably
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about 3 minutes just get all the flavors
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together then we're going to turn it off
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okay so we're ready to start layering
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our taco lasagna so we're using the 9
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by13 that we talked about earlier and
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what we're going to do is put half of a
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jar of
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salsa into the bottom of the pan and
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then we're going to wiggle it around and
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get it nice and coated to prevent
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anything from sticking this is 16 oz so
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we're going to put about 8 ounces down
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there so I'm going to pass this on down
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to Megan make sure it's exactly 8 o half
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the jar
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we're just coating the bottom in a
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little bit of the sides that way it
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keeps the tortillas from sticking we are
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using a pack of flour tortillas these
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are the regular size so they're going to
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cut these in half and then we're going
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to start lining our baking dish with it
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all right there's a there's a knife
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there
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now shuffle them like a deck of cards
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just like that
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now what you want to do is take your
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tortilla halves and then you're going to
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place the flat edge of it on the flat
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edge of your dish on the inside and then
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we're going to go around you'll have two
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on each side one on the small side
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each and then what we're going to do is
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we'll probably put two right
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here just to cover up this there we go
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and then just put one just like that
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there we go now what we're going to do
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is take the meat mixture and we're going
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to take one/3 of it and we're going to
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put it on top of the tortillas in the
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pan and then Megan is going to smooth it
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out got to smooth it out now this recipe
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can be halfed if you want to make it in
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an 8 by8 or 9 by9 and just make it for a
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smaller batch of people or for yourself
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that's totally fine and then what we're
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gonna do let's talk about the cheese oh
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my favorite part hold that oh please and
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thank you all right i got a lot of
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cheese there i'm gonna tell y'all what
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it is we're using Oh you go down a
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little bit there you go we're using a
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Monterey Jack cheese we're using a
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Mexican cheese blend and then we're
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using this Mexican three cheese blend oh
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look chahooa
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chahooa cheese oxoa and Coiah cheese all
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right don't come at me with those
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names is they're going to take about one
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third of that cheese and they're going
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to put it all over the top of that meat
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mixture i better take this bowl away
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yeah probably a good idea hey wasn't a
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third
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all
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right what's going on over here i don't
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know we're going to take some tortillas
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and we're going to do another layer
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another layer of the meat mixture and
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then top it with the cheese
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again all right is there anything y'all
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want to ask them
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yeah we'll answer i just got the eye
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lift over there from Megan just like
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what get that meat mixture on there huh
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it smells good doesn't it it does smell
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pretty good nope that one's preheated
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yep and then just divide the mixture
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what you have left in half and put that
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on top now the juice in here really
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helps get those tortillas nice and
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fluffy once they cook they're very
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tender and not chewy all right now we're
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going to flatten that out we're giving
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the cheese back to Joseph oh yeah
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all right y'all dive in more cheese come
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on Megan load it up grab some cheese
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Megan
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they love Mexican food
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all right all right the final
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layer let's see if we have enough if not
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we can cut some more
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oh I think we might have just enough oh
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we do
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all right joseph's gonna finish putting
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that meat mixture on there megan's gonna
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spread it out we're going to top it with
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some more cheese
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there you go just dump it on in yep
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all right pass that on to me outstanding
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all right smooth it out
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aren't they working great as a team heck
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yeah they
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are smells good it does smell good it's
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making that homemade taco seasoning in
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there m make your own it makes a big
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batch and you can use it for lots of
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meals y'all i love this too
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cheese cheese cheese all right you guys
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load it up
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[Music]
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cheese cheese we got Joseph over here
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it's going to be cheesed oh it is it's
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going to be cheesy
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it's going to be like a cheesy joke
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cheesy joke
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there you go guys you heard it it's
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There's still more cheese in this bowl
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hey whatever we don't eat for lunch
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y'all are taking home you said to fill
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it up add a little bit more anyway now
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I've got my oven preheated at
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352 52° where you getting that from oh
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you very precise temperature huh
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35250 for how long that is one heavy
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casserole oh it's going to be delicious
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though yeah we're going to cook this at
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350° for 20 minutes all we're looking to
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do is heat up the whole entire casserole
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get that cheese nice and melted we're
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going to be back we're going to give
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this a try for
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you all right we just took this out of
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the oven joseph's going to give it a
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little pop of color and some flavor
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we've got some cilantro here and then or
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you can also put green onions on the top
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too if you don't like the taste of
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cilantro yeah if you're one of the ones
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that's think it tastes like soap all
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right you guys we're going to get the
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biggest spoon we can find we're going to
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plate this up dive in joseph let's see
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that big cheese
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pull yeah there it is all right you guys
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we're going to grab some forks and we're
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going to give this a try all
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right here's our bites
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mhm cut i'm eating what's up that ain't
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no cut
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what do you think Megan it's good what
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do you think Joseph it's very good wow
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that is delicious like I said those
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tortillas are nice and soft
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fluffy and that meat mixture that's
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delicious oh yeah all right you guys
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i think Joseph and Megan think this is a
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keeper yep it's going in their recipe
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book
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it's in my recipe book anyway all right
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you guys we'll see y'all on the next
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episode yep bye bye
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