Fifi's Fabulous Mexican Meals For Mutts (or Purebreds)

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 3/4 lb liver, cooked and chopped or cut into strips ("or" other meat that the humans don’t like, vegetarian pooches can substitute "meatless" meat, "or")
• 1 (8 ounce) jar mild taco sauce (take a quick taste of the stuff in the fridge- if it sends you running to your water dish, forget it)
• 2 -4 cloves garlic, minced (ah, who’s counting, anyway)
• 3 tablespoons chunky peanut butter
• 2 cups canned sweet potatoes or 2 cups chopped rutabagas, cooked and mashed
• 1 cup black beans, rinsed
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 2 teaspoons cumin
• 3 -4 bouillon cubes, crushed ("or" equivalent powdered bouillon)
• 8 -12 large flour tortillas
• 6 tablespoons your human's favourite mexican blend cheese, shredded
• 6 tablespoons your favourite vegetables, chopped (can be raw "or" cooked)
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped

Recipe

• 1 fetch a large skillet and heat the oil in it over medium heat until hot.
• 2 add garlic; cook and stir 2 to 3 minutes or until tender.
• 3 paw in the peanut butter, sweet potatoes or rutabaga, and beans; mash slightly (you can mash them with the tip of your nose, if it’s flat and clean).
• 4 add cumin, cinnamon and chili powder, beef bouillon; mix well.
• 5 reduce heat to low; add beef and taco sauce, cover and simmer 2 to 3 minutes or until thoroughly heated, stirring occasionally (don’t stir with your paws – they might get burned and you’d have to make an unplanned trip to the vet!) meanwhile, heat the tortillas according to package directions.
• 6 to serve, spoon and spread a pawful of the mixture across centre third of each tortilla with a strip or a few chunks of meat in the center.
• 7 top each with 1 tablespoon sour cream, 1 teaspoon cilantro, and 1 tablespoon cheese (spread to cover mixture) – i spotted a couple of overripe bananas in the humans’ fruit bowl, so i sliced them up and put them on top of the cheese – woof!
• 8 fold sides of each tortilla 1 inch over filling.
• 9 fold bottom 1/3 of tortilla over filling; roll again to enclose filling.
• 10 eat one to ensure that they are fit for canine consumption and place the others individually in small airtight freezer baggies – they freeze very well and will last about 3 months in the freezer – reheat the frozen ones in a 275°f to 300°f oven until they are thawed and gently heated through.