Hey guys, I want to show you guys how I style tacos at home
obviously with some really really great ingredients and
I'm gonna show you some food stylist tips also
first thing I want to get all of my
Toppings and ingredients for my tacos ready to go. So I like to do a wedge of red onion
it just is a really pretty shape this like half of onion when you do like a wedge or
What do you call that I keep the top stem
Intact and I keep the bottom root intact. I'm gonna just trim off that very end of the onion root
but still leaving it so it's still gonna all be attached and then I'm gonna just take my knife and
Go long ways this way to get that shape. So like this is not going to come apart
It's just gonna kind of fan which is just really cool and really pretty I'm gonna take those red onions
Slices and I'm gonna put them in
One of my prep containers my museum floss container
And I'm just gonna add some red wine vinegar to it
this is something that I do a lot when I food style the red wine vinegar just
Enhances the color of the red onions, so I added a little water to that to just to dilute it a little bit
So we're gonna let that sit. I have these really nice like pink and then like purple
Multicolored radishes so also when I'm thinking about my toppings for my taco my ingredients for the inside
I'm thinking about different shapes and how things are gonna look together. And so now I'm gonna do
the radishes in a thin disc thin enough that it's like
Translucent which is like really cool when you put your radishes and cold water
They'll actually Bend and I don't want my radishes to Bend. I want them to stay flat
So the best thing to do is when you prep them if they're gonna sit for a little bit
maybe you're making a taco bar or something or you're like me and you're prepping things out and you're talking to somebody and
There's a lot of you know time in between what's going on. Just cover them with a damp paper towel
That's all you need to do
I was just kind of in the mood for a nine a salsa e
Taco, but I do want to make a sauce
so I'm kind of making like a crema so I'm gonna do some sour cream and then I'm also gonna do
mayonnaise that's probably
About the same amount. I think there might be a little bit more sour cream then mayonnaise
So we'll say like a third a cup of each. I have an open container of
chipotles in adobo sauce and what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna take the adobo sauce and pour it into
my sour cream mayonnaise mixture
I'm not gonna use the whole Chipotle's they're very very spicy and I
am a wuss and it has this really nice like
pinkish
terracotta color which is
lovely, so
Talking about shapes of things that are gonna be inside of my taco. I think I'm gonna do a chopped
Avocado if you've watched my thing selling videos before I do share a couple hacks about how to keep avocados
Fresh and not turn brown and cut my avocado in half with the skin. So on it and then I'm gonna peel the skin off
The avocado it's super simple
and then I just do like three slices go back and forth with my knife and
do little chunks and then
Gently break those chunks up and then take my women. Oh, yeah
This is gonna be good see-through containers
So I don't have to tilt it so you can just see it like that
One of my favorite things to do for food selling tacos is to char the tortillas
Unfortunately with an electric stove you can't do that
so I'm gonna show you guys a little trick that I have for charring tacos when you don't have gas a
torch
Y'all know I love quite a fire right? So I just want to get it a little
Around the edges. Obviously. I'm kind of flexing right now. You can totally toast these and let's do it. No big deal
But this is pretty fun chard
Beautiful texture it smells so good too. So
I just have like some pork shoulder that I slow roasted for like a whole day
And then I crisped it up in the skillet
So now I have all the pieces that I need to build my tacos
And I've got a little photo setup going on back here played my taco
tortillas out
Place where I'm pretty much where they're gonna be. I'm gonna shoot this overhead with my
Camera phone so I'm gonna kind of be standing up and down to style them as I go
But we're gonna start with the carnitas
so I have some really nice like bigger pieces like so that show a really nice texture and then I have some small pieces, so
I'm just going to
Put them kind of randomly
Obviously the crispy like really golden
Part of the carnitas that got toasted in the skillet is the part that's like really appetizing
And that's the part you want to see and I'm definitely like not
Being super serious about keeping this clean. I think tacos are pretty messy anyway, and it's just really nice to
Sometimes style a messy environment
Versus it being like super clean and perfect and so now I'm gonna do my other toppings
I'm gonna start with my red onion because it's kind of like the biggest thing other than the the
Carnitas that I'm gonna put on the taco. I'm like kind of intertwining it with the
With the pork. I'm not just like laying it on top. I'm like
Incorporating it together. It's just like such a nice color
I don't know that I showed you guys since I took it out of the red wine vinegar
But it's like now it's sort of like a pinky color instead of like a dark purple. Now, we're gonna do that. It should
That's the same sort of thing. Sometimes it's hard to do the whole random bit thing, but
Just got to embrace it. That's me. Giving myself a pep talk. So now I think I'm gonna do my
Avocado, these are gonna Reese
he's hopefully gonna see take a really pretty picture but the point is to eat it and
Make it look nice. So I'm gonna do my coat eat and this not cotija queso fresco queso fresco
Cotija is also like a Mexican crumbling cheese. That's not what this is
So I do want to kind of keep it in bigger pieces to start probably about like that pick
It does kind of like look like feta and have that same sort of texture
But it's really creamy and mild and it's so good on tacos. So I'm gonna kind of be like
Random with the sauce. I want to get it on there and I want to see it
But I also don't want it to like cover anything up
I'm gonna do cilantro on top of the tacos, and I'm just gonna take
pieces off of the stick off the whole stem
I think this is really pretty to do with cilantro so you can see the whole leaf and basically to keep the cilantro fresh
I just wrapped it in a damp paper towel. I was pretty specific with the ingredients that I used in my chocolates today
But I just wanna let you guys know if you didn't already know
Use whatever you have tacos are so versatile and you can literally do
Anything with them and make them super delicious with any kind of stuff you have in your refrigerator. It doesn't even have to be like
Mexican or tex-mex themed on that I'm gonna add our lemon wedges lime lime wedges, okay
I'm almost ready to take this final beauty shot
I'm gonna show you guys what it looks like before I do that so you can see it in action. Here. They are
And so this is the angle that I'm gonna take the photo. It'll almost look exactly like that
Not great. So like there's all my stuff my set mess if you will and then there
is
my beauty food
and they pretty