{"id":24507,"date":"2015-11-03T16:54:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=24507"},"modified":"2015-11-03T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:54:28","slug":"making-cheeseless-childhood-mac-cheese-tacos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/making-cheeseless-childhood-mac-cheese-tacos\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Up For My Cheeseless Childhood: Mac and Cheese Tacos"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a kid, my body didn\u2019t really do dairy all that well, and my doctor suggested I cut dairy from my diet completely. Five-year-old me learned this meant she couldn\u2019t eat mac and cheese anymore. Tears ensued. Luckily, I was eventually able to reintroduce dairy into my diet and found that cheese no longer any problem. So in this blog series, I’m trying out wacky, kid-friendly recipes, hoping to give families with cheese-loving kids fun, easy, and delicious meals to make together as I search for dishes that adequately make up for my cheeseless childhood. Missed last week’s post on Ramen Grilled Cheese? Check it out!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Growing up, I was a really, really<\/em> picky eater. I had a bagel and cream cheese for lunch every day in elementary school. I only ate pasta with butter because I hated tomato sauce. My parents would bring a carton of eggs to a relative’s house on Jewish holidays because they knew my brother and I wouldn\u2019t eat anything else. We even opted for eggs on Thanksgiving<\/em> because we wouldn\u2019t eat turkey. (See why giving up dairy was such an issue? I was basically only eating eggs even before mac and cheese or pizza was out of the picture.)<\/p>\n

With my straight-up boring eating habits, there\u2019s no way I would have been interested in Mexican food or any type of meat that wasn\u2019t chicken cutlets at five years old. But, as a much less picky eater sixteen years later, I couldn\u2019t help but try out the mac and cheese taco I found while researching recipes for this blog series. While I\u2019m sure I would have turned down a taco shell filled with pulled pork at the time, the addition of mac and cheese filling certainly would have piqued my interest. Now that I think of it, my parents would have definitely been a lot more successful with their attempts to get me trying new foods if they just threw some mac and cheese on top.<\/p>\n

Well, they may have missed out on that opportunity, but I still get to put mac and cheese in foods it was never intended to go into. My recipe inspiration for these tacos comes from Blog Chef<\/a>, except I replaced the ground beef with pulled pork because I haven\u2019t shed my pickiness completely and ground beef is just not my thing. I also cheated a bit and used pre-made pulled pork that just needed to be microwaved, but it worked out.<\/p>\n

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