Food 2.0: Super-Simple Awesome Fish Tacos

Today I met with my friend Dave for a simple Saturday lunch. After four years of living in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood, I'm pretty bored with the restaurants in our area. Although I love Thai food especially at Thai Kingdom, such a heavy lunch did not seem appropriate on such a sunny spring day. So instead Dave and I shopped at Trader Joe's together and collaborated on the Food 2.0 fish tacos. Our lunch could have been a Giada De Laurentiis cooking episode if TJ's were a farmer's market and I were a beautiful Italian chef with time on my hands to cook my friends lunch...It may not have been Everyday Italian, but the fish tacos stayed true to their name as super, simple and awesome.

Just a note, this recipe makes two tacos each meaning two fish sticks per taco.

Super-Simple Awesome Fish Tacos

4 frozen fish sticks
2 corn tortillas or 2 crisp taco shells
1/2 cup corn salsa with green chilies or pickled jalepeños mixed in
2 tablespoons tartar sauce
a handful of fresh greens or shredded cabbage

Note: If you can't find corn salsa at your grocery store, mix together a 1:1 ratio of canned or defrosted corn kernels with salsa and add in jalepeños or green chilies to make it spicy.

1. Cook the fish sticks for 3 minutes in the microwave or in a toaster oven according the directions on the box. Warm the corn tortillas in the microwave by wrapping them in a damp paper towel and heating them for 10-20 seconds. You don't want them super hot, the warming is meant to soften the tortillas so they don't break when you pick up the taco.

2. Spread 1 tablespoon of tartar over each tortilla. Coarsely chop of the fish sticks and add the fish sticks to the tortillas. Top the fish with the corn salsa and the lettuce greens. For soft tacos, roll up the tortilla and eat.