Tacos Pork Carnitas, Fish Salmon #TacoTuesday

Our family was never quite into tacos, burrittos, Mexican food and cuisine in general. However, this past year of occasional day-tripping and local travel opened up our travel food world to food trucks, especially taco trucks.

Though we prefer to have home-cooked food, having to depend on prepared/store-bought food while travelling has become unavoidable. However, eating out past few years has become very expensive. When you are travelling on the road, what is your go-to for food?

For us, it's tacos - definitely not those fancy-schmancy $8 tacos in restaurants but traditional authentic basic no-frills meat tacos topped with onions and cilantro. We are always excited to discover and try great delicious $2-3 tacos on our road trips, and try to keep our meal budget under $15 (for two people).

Semi-homemade: carnitas tacos with pineapple salsa, cilantro

There comes a time to take matters into my own hands with semi-homemade tacos at home, getting some good quality pork carnitas from the store, then putting it together at home.

Semi-homemade: salmon tacos with pico de gallo, cilantro

Semi-homemade because we depend on store-bought corn tortillas but making sure to get good-quality ones made only from stone-ground corn, water, and lime. They are not hard to come by and quite wallet-friendly, usually $1-$2 for a dozen. We also found one or two local tortilleria (tortilla factories) which makes them fresh daily (and sells blue corn tortilla as well).

Semi-homemade: salmon and black bean tacos with onions, cilantro

So many adventurous tacos days with pork carnitas, turkey carnitas, chicken tacos (leftover rotisserie chicken is great for this), shrimp tacos, fish tacos and still going strong.