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Elusive Spicy Mexican Orange Sauce Adventure

April 07, 2024 by Alyssa D in sides

One of our favorite taco trucks in the South Bay didn’t invent spicy, creamy, addictive orange-colored sauce, but theirs was the first we ever remember wanting to eat again as soon as humanly possible.

While enjoying a leftover loaded quesadilla the next day for a solo lunch, I shotgunned the extra sauce directly from the container. No regrets.

After following the truck to its new location, though, we noticed a sad handwritten note in the window: “No orange sauce today.” The sign stayed up.

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April 07, 2024 /Alyssa D
Mexican, Mexican cuisine, orange sauce, Mexican orange sauce, food trucks, chile peppers, guajillo peppers, arbol chiles, Tacolicious, tacos, vegan, vegetarian
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Vegan Adobo Tofu Adventure

August 19, 2021 by Alyssa D in main course

The city promised higher-than-usual July 4th fireworks for better visibility from home this year. In a swirl of holiday excitement, I promised our guests tacos. Scalable, flexible, easy-to-prep tacos.

Being seriously rusty on the entertaining front, however, I made a bunch of silly mistakes. The adobo tofu wasn’t one of them.

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August 19, 2021 /Alyssa D
tofu, vegan, vegetarian, adobo tofu, adobo sauce, Mexican adobo sauce, vegan adobo tofu, tacos, burritos, Mexican cuisine
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