Little Chuckle For the Day

Not everything that sounds like a great idea turns out to be one - especially in the kitchen.

I don't know about you, but I try to be pretty creative in the kitchen.  I still want everything I wanted before, but maybe in a healthier version.  So......I saw that you could make taco shells out of cheese!!!!  (I saw you could do bacon ones too, but that just sounds wrong!!!)  How simple - just a little cheese in a skillet or on a plate in the microwave, cook it till it gets a little crispy, form it over the end of a wooden spoon and you would have perfect low carb shells of crunchy cheese heaven.  Right?

Yeah - not so much.  First attempt was in the microwave.  I came away with a disk of melted cheese, floating in an ocean of oily greasiness.  I was able to pick it up and put the dripping mess over the end of a wooden spoon, and it did harden and form somewhat of a shell.  I next tried the cheese in a frying pan.  Another floating monstrosity.  I threw this one in a bowl to form hopefully a bowl shaped conveyance for taco meat goodness...and pretty much got a blob.

In a stroke of brilliance, I decided to try the cheese on some parchment paper on a cookie sheet in the oven.  And these looked much better.  I let them sit for a few moments before trying to mold them, but they never became anything resembling a hard taco shell.  Mostly a cheese tortilla.

Now - of course they were delicious (with the exception of the bowl blob).  How can baked crispy (somewhat) cheese be anything but delicious.  But I'd consider it an epic fail!  I wonder if I have bacon at home.......

Now I want some cheese :) if you use the bacon you could braid it into a basket design put it over a bowl and bake it in the oven or maybe add some crumbled bacon to the cheese??? Dang now I am really hungry :) good luck. 

Time to do a taco bowl and enjoy the cheesy crispies.

You can do that if you use low moisture cheese - like Parmesan, not very thick layer. Sometimes I mix mine with some flax meal..(for extra fiber  - but not too much of it)  

http://www.livestrong.com/article/432205-how-to-use-cheese-to-make-a-taco-shell/