simple chicken tacos

Twenty years ago, I started this website because I wanted a place to share recipes I was excited about, as it’s practically coded into my DNA to be an unfettered yap about the things I love. [This is me.] The larger context was that upon reaching so-called adulthood, I’d found that while I knew how to cook, there were still so many things I hadn’t figured out, such as: how to turn a can of tomatoes into not just an okay pasta sauce, but a spectacular one; how to make really good meatballs; perfect hummus; and a crumb cake I’d want to make forever. You’d think that 20 years and more than 1400 recipes later, I’d be closing this chapter. What could there possibly be left to know? Haven’t we kale salad-ed and tomato soup-ed and apple pie-d our way to fulfillment yet? Well no, absolutely not. In fact, most days, I feel like I’m just getting started. For example, a while ago I realized that I really needed a recipe, or at least a technique, for making chicken tacos on a weeknight. Ideally, it would come together quickly in a skillet, not force me to marinate anything, not expect me to dump a jar of salsa into a slow cooker, or to pull out a stand mixer to shred the chicken (it’s real; it...