You can put vegetable in tacos!

(but to answer the question, yes.)

Other than coffee, you mean?

Annie

Love my tacos but my obession is dessert. Dessert is a MUST HAVE for me. : ) Love, love, love dessert...perfect ending to a simple or fancy meal for this guy. Not to forget a late/middle of the night treat....LOL!

David

This subject came up a bit in another recent thread...I DO have my phases. Luckily, my husband is an equal opportunity consumer, so if I give him mustard greens, Chinese broccoli & spinach all in one meal, he just eats it all, knowing I'm in the depths of a green veggie craze.

For a while, I couldn't get enough good quality dark chocolate, and got particularly hung up on Lindt's dark chocolate with a touch of sea salt bars. Now, I still like it, but wouldn't make a special, 9:00 p.m. trip to the store because I was in danger of running out.

I've been on a legume binge lately. Dinner doesn't seem like dinner if I don't have some.

I like good tacos (I also have an occasional craving for a truly bad, fast food taco) and will fill them with just about anything. Generally I make soft tacos, just because I don't want to fry all the time. Grilled vegetable tacos, especially with a nice, spicy,tomatillo salsa are yummy. Another favorite are fish tacos, made with Cajun marinated catfish cooked on the bbq (I make my own, but many grocery stores carry it pre-marinated), shredded cabbage, fresh tomato salsa and a cilantro-jalapeno cream sauce. MMMMMMmmmmmMMMMMmmm! I do those in flour tortillas usually.

Really, depending on what you stuff your tacos with, I shouldn't call them an unhealthy food choice. Yeah, if you fry your tortillas, the food Nazis might squawk, but there are worse things for sure.

rachelellen - when I saw this post I thought of you and your recent post on getting on a kick for things. LOL

I too get on kicks for certain foods. I hate sweets and I love sour - and tart - and salty. Cranberries are in season and I (gasp) eat them raw. I have been in withdrawal since rhubarb season ended in late July. Yes - I eat that raw also. Thank God I've discovered preserved lemons for the gaps between rhubarb and cranberry season. :-)

Black garlic EVOO salad dressing on tomatoes. Three times a day.

I have been doing that for a few months now.

dcarch

Pizza
Chocolate anything
Rare red meat

There are more, but these come to mind right off the top of my head LOL.

Becky

I go on binges with wanting things, eating them and then getting burned out on that particular item. What makes it really bad is when it is for a dish that a certain restaurant has. Presently it is a sandwich which is not something I usually want. A local restaurant has it and it's on restaurant made bread,and has chicken which has been cooked over a wood fire. Other items are in it of course such as roasted red peppers and arugula. Can't have enough of it.

If I can't have that, then I want pasta with any kind of sauce except red.

They say that when you crave some particular food that your body is telling you that you are deficient in a particular vitamin or mineral, or combination of other nutrients you need. I believe that is mostly true. I went on an egg and salmon binge wanting either all the time, in any form, meals, snacks, or just because. Found out from doc that I was quite deficient in Vitamin D, of which those two have high levels. Started taking supplements and now don't crave them but do still enjoy them.

Chocolate and chili peppers increase your endorphin levels, make you feel good mentally, and increase your appetite for other foods.

Nancy

Coffee and carbs.

I'm with Annie on the coffee. Sometimes I lie in bed thinking about the smell.

I think a person could live healthily on only tacos.

Not too surprised with some of the responses. I can totally get coffee...an addiction of sorts that the brain craves and if you believe every other study quite good for you as well. I can also see pizza, chocolate and garlic for sure.

I went on a pasta craze for quite a few years.....had to have it almost every night for dinner...now the taco thing. I don't think it is too bad...could be worse I suppose...and I just need to jazz it up with some other choices for fillings. It started when the home grown tomatoes and hot peppers were coming in ....and it's still an almost daily want. It will fizzle out and I'll be on to something else most likely....but for now: I MUST HAVE TACO'S (said in my best Homer Simpson voice!)

Duane

Nancy, I've often suspected that cravings come from a body in need of something and trying to let you know. Over the years I've learned to suspect that if I get strong cravings for citrus & dark green veggies at the same time, my immune system might be struggling with something. I was also one of those women for whom an intense craving for big slabs of red meat often heralded the arrival of my "friend." Dunno if that had to do with iron or some micronutrient or other, or just hormonal perversity, but it did happen.

If it is true that cravings signal needs though, the body's language or logic is somewhat lacking in articulation. I cannot imagine what it might be needing from Doritos, black licorice or chicken wings, all of which I periodically have spells of what can only be termed craving-madness. :D

Chips!!!
I have no idea what my body is telling me I'm needing, but boy do I love chips.
(At least I don't add salt at the table to anything I eat.)

Pretty much anything with salt. I will take salty snacks before chocolate.

I certainly do get on food kicks. Lately I have been loving Stacy's Naked Pita Chips (the plain ones) with Sabra brand classic hummus. I cannot get enough of this combination. If I lived alone I might eat just that, with some carrot & celery sticks added, for dinners.

Here's a stanger one that consumed me last year (thinking of it makes me want to make it again..) The Orangette Blog had a recipe for a stewed prune compote w/ citrus & cinnamon. I made up a batch & swirled it into my morning bowl of oatmeal and I was hooked. Something about the sweetness & texture of the prunes (I know -) and the tartness of the sliced oranges (you keep the rind on them) and the warm cinnamon spice. Pretty soon I was eating it at lunch over Greek yogurt and after dinner for dessert. I made about 1/2 dozen batches within a few weeks before I tired of it.

Luckily, most of my obsessive food spells involve foods with health benefits. But I could easily slip into decadence if there was a jar of Nutella in the house, lol.

Lately it's been that Sun Dried Tomato Cream Sauce Donna posted. With any type of pasta and any combination of protein and vegie

For years I lived with my Sweet Sixteen donut obsession. Got to the point I could not have them in my house at all. Now they hardly get a glance from me in the store.

Can't think of a current obsession.

For superb chocolate bars, Green and Black are fabulous, and expensive. I am usually a dark chocolate fan but their milk chocoalate is so smooth and rich! Some stores sell it in their gourmet/natural food section, away from the ordinary candy aisle--Wegmans does.
Nancy

Red wine and thai food. But not together. I could eat thai food every day. Especially if I could control the heat in the dish.

Not so much at home but I have two obsessions when I go out to eat.

The perfectly made hamburger and crispy chicken wings with the perfect spicy dipping sauce. I can't get past those two things on a diner/pub style menu. I'll order one or the other every single time.

Tacos? Love 'em!

My obsession must be red pepper sauces because my refrigerator is full of them. I am the self-proclaimed Condiment Queen anyway (although I have plenty of run for my money here!), but I have more of these sauces than anything, and I like to eat them on everything.

I have Mexican hot sauces, good ole Tabasco, homemade Armenian red pepper paste, Harissa, Korean pepper paste, Sriracha, Afghani pepper jelly (found at the local farmer's market), LindaLou's homemade fruit/chili jam, etc., etc! And I dearly miss the Indian hot mango chutney I used to find at World Market.

It's an addiction if not an obsession.