Fifi's Fabulous Mexican Meals for Mutts (or purebreds)

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 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

Directions

1. 1

   Fetch a large skillet and heat the oil in it over medium heat until hot.

2. 2

   Add garlic; cook and stir 2 to 3 minutes or until tender.

3. 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. 4

   Add cumin, cinnamon and chili powder, beef bouillon; mix well.

5. 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. 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. 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. 8

   Fold sides of each tortilla 1 inch over filling.

9. 9

   Fold bottom 1/3 of tortilla over filling; roll again to enclose filling.

10. 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.