INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you order a taco salad from a restaurant, there's a good chance that you will receive it in a hard tortilla bowl (or "tostada") that looks a little like a giant, folded tortilla chip. You can replicate this at home easily. Just buy tortilla bowls from your local supermarket (your best bet is to look in the Latin foods section) and layer your taco salad inside the bowls instead of on a bed of lettuce. You can also make your own tostadas if you wish see our article on the subject for instructions. With its distinct flavor and reddish-orange color, there's no mistaking well-prepared Spanish rice. Prepare the rice on its own in a slow cooker or a separate pot (cooking times will generally be longer than for the beef, etc., so you'll probably want to start it first). Serve the rice on the side of the salad plate or use it as a layer in the salad itself. See our article on Spanish Rice for a selection of easy recipes. Beans are a filling side dish that round out a taco salad well. With their high protein and fiber content, they're also quite nutritious. Try serving your taco salad with a generous scoop of beans on the side and provide a few extra chips or tortillas to eat it with. Refried beans are a favorite often served at Mexican restaurants. See WikiHow's refried bean article for an easy recipe. Seasoned black beans provide a healthier alternative (see our black beans recipe). Adding a few spoonfuls of your favorite dressing to your vegetable mixture can give your salad a richer, more complex flavor for almost no extra effort. Simply stir, shake or toss the vegetables to mix the dressing in well, then use them in the recipe as normal. While there's no "right" dressing to use for this, the simple, tangy-sweet flavor of Catalina dressing tends to be a good choice. A good recipe is available here. Ground beef is generally the most common meat used in taco salads, but it's far from your only choice. Many types of shredded or ground meats can be substituted you may even like them more once you try them. Some choices (like ground poultry) will generally even make a leaner, healthier choice. Prepare these beef alternatives as you normally would: cook them in the pan, drain them, and season them before assembling your salad. A few ideas are below: Ground chicken Ground turkey Pork carnitas Shredded/pulled barbecue pork Flank/strip steak, chopped or sliced thin

SUMMARY: Serve in a crisp taco shell "bowl". Serve with Spanish rice. Serve with latin-style beans. Toss vegetables with salad dressing for flavor. Consider non-beef alternatives.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Figure out the points on which you both agree. Doing so helps maintain a sense of cooperation on the issue. It also helps you come to some sort of agreement. For example, you might tell your spouse, "We both want to move to an area where the kids can go to great schools. It seems like a low crime rate is most important to you, while diversity is most important to me. How about we look at quality schools in reasonably diverse neighborhoods that have low crime rates?" Close relationships often involve more collaboration than those between relative strangers. If you're trying to reach a compromise with your partner, family member, friend or coworker with whom you're on friendly terms, try the turn-taking approach. For example, if you and your spouse can't agree on which movie to watch, you might take turns and watch them both: one person's preference goes first and the other person's follows. If you and a coworker are trying to decide who'll buy lunch, you might say, "I'll get it this time, but you've got next." If it's equally important (or unimportant) as to who goes first, flip a coin. See the compromise like a gift swap. Basically, this method works with a "You give me this, and I give you that" mentality. Offer something of relatively equal or desirable value to the other person in exchange for what they give you. For instance, if you and your roommate are arguing over who does which chore, you might both decide which is your least favorite chore (e.g., mopping, doing laundry, washing dishes). Then, swap: you do their least favorite chore and they do yours. Remember to be flexible in the exchange. Allow the other person to negotiate. Compromise, after all, often requires both parties to give something up or to consider the other's needs. You might have a suggestion as to how something could be done better, but the other person is resistant to jump on board. If this happens, suggest that they try it your way for a short trial. If they don't like it, you can switch back at the end of the trial. Let's say you read an article that suggests disciplining your children a certain way, but your spouse isn't convinced. You might say, "How about we give it a try for two weeks? If it works, we'll keep doing it. If it doesn't, we'll try your way. Okay?"

SUMMARY:
Find common ground. Take turns. Offer an exchange. Do a trial period.