Via our new Flickr Friend JLT, this handy photo-guide to making tongue tacos at home. Click for the big version. JLT tells us they have made tacos using this recipe 3 times in the past year and they’ve been amazing! Let us know how it goes in your kitchen…

Tacos Al Pastor are one of Mexico City’s (and Los Angeles’) greatest taste treats. A Mexican-ized version of the classic Turkish/Lebanese shwarama, the melt-in-your-mouth pork flavors are complex and amazing. While it’s possible to make tacos al pastor at home without a proper vertical rotisserie, it really isn’t the same thing. Buying an industrial grade rotisserie isn’t an option for most people, so it seems that al pastor is destined to be a restaurant or taco table/truck item only.

Enter Andrew Galarneau of Buffalo, NY, who clues us into the Sunbeam Carousel Rotisserie, which is no longer being sold but is available on Ebay and other sites, usually for around $40. It’s a mini version of an al pastor spit, and Andrew used on to make his own homemade version of tacos al pastor. Check out the results on his site. If anyone out there in the TACO-sphere give this a try, please document it and send your story our way!

Recipe modified from Kraft Food’s African American Flavor Center for your taco-centric Hallowe’en party tonite:

Ingredients:
1 lb. ground beef
2 tbsp Mexican spice mixture
12 Taco Shells
3/4 cup Salsa
3/4 cup Sour Cream
1 can (2-1/4 oz.) sliced pitted ripe olives
Preparation:
Mix meat and spices. Shape into 36 (1-inch) balls; place in 15×10x1-inch baking pan.

Bake at 350°F for 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked through. Fill each taco shell with 1 meatball; drizzle with salsa. Top with 2 meatballs dipped in sour cream. Garnish with olives to make “eyeballs.”

Kat’s Margarita ~ Double Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup lemon juice

1 cup lime juice

2 cup Triple sec

2 cup White tequila

Optional: Grand Marnier

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