May’s Featured Book
Each month, we have one book that is featured. This means it only costs you $5! Take advantage of this great deal to add to your collection and try some delicious new recipes!
This month’s book is Against the Grain. If you need gluten or grain-free meals or are on GAPS — or just want something different — this is perfect! Salisbury steak, beef tips with portobello mushrooms, chicken in sun-dried tomato-cream sauce, white bean vanilla cake and more! Eat and enjoy!
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We make our own taco seasoning also! Pretty much for the reasons you outlined and it's so easy!
My recipe is very similar, but with a touch of ground cayenne pepper and I go ahead and mix up about 1/2-3/4c. of it at a time and store it in a glass jar so it's ready to go when I need it. There's really no reason to buy the seasoning packets at the store, which have extra junk in them and are overpriced!
This is hilarious to me that I find this now. Literally, just the other day I decided to glance at the taco seasoning packet as I was preparing tacos, and was disgusted by all the crap I saw in there (dairy? it's supposed to be seasoning! Why is there dairy?). I was curious how I could go about making my own and ditching that prepackaged stuff, but hadn't yet bothered to research what's a good alternative.
I'm psyched to try it out now!
Thanks!
I love cumin and would probably add at least a tablespoon around here! Really-I take the shaker lid off and pour it in when I'm making Mexican food!
So, is this batch how much you use for each time you cook (like each taco dinner, etc)? And if I want to make more, just take this recipe time 10 or something?
Hi Crystal,
Yes, this is "one meal." I often do 10x as much and keep it in a mason jar, and just use about 2 tbsp. of the mix for each meal. Super easy!
I have a dumb problem, though…I usually cook with turkey or chicken (not beef) and those seasoning packs (creepy as they are) give the meat a dark brown color…the homemade version don’t do that!