I may have over-done it on the lettuce this year. First-timers remorse and all of that. I have crazy wicked lettuce everywhere and it's going to be 90° for the next few days. Any ideas on how to use big bunches of lettuce up for party food? Sadly, salad does not mix well with alcohol... Perhaps a really easy taco dip? Help!

sorry this is so late...

You could make taco salads w/ the lettuce and serve margarita's. I don't know what kind of lettuce you have but just about any kind would work. I have even made taco salads w/ mixed baby greens and it wasn't all that bad.

Brown some ground beef and season appropiatly or use refried beans and have the lettuce w/ cheese, tomatoes, olives, avocado, sourcream...garnish w/ some taco flavored chips or even plain tortillas.

If you want a taco salad "bowl", you can bake one easy enough. Take some aluminum foil and make a baseball sized ball w/ it. Take a flour tortilla and place on ball of foil. Stick toothpicks in the tortilla through the foil to hold it in place and give it that taco salad shell look. Spray w/ non-stick spray or olive oil and bake in the oven until golden.

You can even buy special molds to make your own taco salad shells relatively cheap. I have 2 myself that I bought at Target.

You could also do the salad w/o the shell. Layer it in a pan, putting sourcream and/or groundbeef/refried beans on the bottom.

Have a mexican fiesta. Like a build your own taco/burrito type thing and have all the toppings (w/ the lettuce) out on a table so people could make their own. And have the dip on the side as well (using the lettuce)

Alcohol goes great w/ mexican food as does lettuce!

You could also make Hamburgers/gardenburger. Plain Jane I know but it would use the lettuce. Build a burger type thing. And alcohol would go w/ a burger.

The lettuce is all gone this year, but I will definitely have to try taco dip next year. ...Sour cream instead of the cream cheese I usually see is a great idea! I like the cream cheese but my husband won't touch it. He'll probably try the sour, though. Thanks!!