Taco & Avocado Salad

I love me some avocados and apparently, right now, I love me some taco meat, too!

I'm not a huge fan of ground beef...or the taste of beef for that matter...but taco meat, seasoned correctly, lasts a long time for me, and so far, isn't getting old! I make a variation of this salad at least twice a week! Super fast, easy to take to work for lunch, and delicious!

Ingredients:

1 lb ground meat, organic/grass fed, hormone free
1/2 onion, chopped
1 tbsp coconut oil
Taco Seasoning: 1 1/2 tbsp cumin, 1 tbsp garlic powder, 2 tsp ground oregano, pinch of crushed red pepper (optional)
Salad mix
Avocado

Directions:

Saute onion in coconut oil. Add ground beef and brown completely. Drain fat from meat. Add taco seasoning and 1/4-1/2 cup water. Simmer for 5ish minutes.

To serve, put salad mix in a bowl, top with half avocado, fill avocado with taco meat. ENJOY!

Yummy Rating (1 being the worst & 10 being the best/closest to traditional recipe): 10

Why? To me, this IS a traditional recipe! I LOVE LOVE LOVE avocado, and the taco meat has so much flavor! This is a great meal! I hope you enjoy it, too!

Taco Pie...minus the Pie

I found a really promising recipe that sounded delicious -- pie crust + taco meat topped with avocado & lettuce? YUM! Problem...the original recipe called for Almond Flour (can't have nuts) and butter (can't have dairy), so I thought, why not replace almond flour with coconut flour and butter with coconut butter....not so much! I'll give you the original recipe, and if you have nuts & dairy in your diet, let me know how it goes!

Ingredients:
Crust: 1 1/2 cup almond flour + 1/4 cup butter, melted -- mix and pour into 9 inch pie pan & pat down
Pie Filling
1 lb ground meat, organic/grass fed, hormone free
1/2 onion, chopped
1 tbsp coconut oil
Taco Seasoning (the original calls for BBQ sauce, but there are so many things I can't have in BBQ sauce, and I know I just love taco seasoning, so I made this concoction): 1 1/2 tbsp cumin, 1 tbsp garlic powder, 2 tsp ground oregano, pinch of crushed red pepper (I'm technically not allowed red pepper, but I figured just a few wouldn't hurt!)
Lettuce
Avocado

Directions
Make pie crust. Use coconut oil to saute chopped onion. Add in ground beef, brown. Once browned, at about 3 tbsp of taco seasoning and stir well (add 1/4 cup of water, if necessary). Let simmer for about 5 minutes, then pour into pie crust. Put in oven for 30 minutes on 350 degrees.

Since we didn't enjoy the flavor of the "crust", we scooped the beef out and ate it on top lettuce with avocado -- a taco salad :-)

Yummy Rating (1 being the worst & 10 being the best/closest to traditional recipe): sans crust...9...with crust....2

Why? I liked the idea of having a crust...but the crust pretty much tasted like coconut flavored sand...but the taco beef was DELICIOUS!! I love this recipe! 

I will be uploading my absolute favorite taco recipe soon! Between this recipe & the one with veggies in it, I doubt we'll ever eat "normal" tacos again!