Cooking for Zo

Taste Level: VGR
Cost: $20 and under
Serves: 4
Prep Time: 5-10 min.
Cook Time: 15-20 min.
Difficulty: 1

Want some of the best non-traditional tacos you will ever have? Of course you do! We had remnants of burrito meat and lasagna meet that needed to be cooked. We thought we will just add it together and suffer the outcome. Together we tinkered with spices and ingredients in what must have appeared to be two children pretending to cook. Adding a dash of this here, a spill of that there and laughing all the way until we took our first bites. Well... I took my bite first, being that I was the test bunny. I said, "Zo take a bite of this now!" She thought I was pretending and just trying to get her to take a bite until I finally convinced her that I was not fooling around. After we both finished, we had seconds and I snuck thirds! Get your skillets ready and enjoy!

Ingredients:
Tacos
Corn Taco shells
1 cup coastal English cheddar (shredded)

Meat
8 oz Hot Italian sausage
4 oz Angus lean ground beef
1/2 of a medium sweet white onion (chopped)
1 jalapeno (diced)
2 tbsp fire roasted green chilies (chopped)
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp smoked paprika
Pinch of cayenne pepper
pepper (to taste)
2 tbsp olive oil

Sauce
1 tbsp olive oil
1/4 onion (chopped)
1 8 oz can tomato sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp New Mexico (Hot) chili powder
Fresh Crack Pepper (to taste)

Meat
In a medium skillet heat oil and saute onions until translucent over medium high heat (5-7 minutes). Add meats and all other ingredients and cook until meat has browned, stirring frequently (7-10 minutes.)

Sauce
In a small sauce pan heat oil over medium heat and saute onions until translucent (5-7 minutes.) Add remaining ingredients and let simmer together for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Tacos
Heat taco shells according to packaging. Add meat, sauce and cheese to shells and enjoy some of the best tacos ever!