Taco Lasagna

Yet another variant on the Mexican layered casserole thingy that never fails to appeal to me.

Recipe via Veg News, see it here.

Delish and satisfying.  Leftovers, too, always a plus in my book.  It didn't plate very well, but definitely edible.

One note is that the online recipe does not include a baking time.  I baked mine for 40 minutes and that was just about right.  The top layer of tortillas was starting to crisp and and it was hot throughout.

Keeper.

Get Thee Some of This

I stopped at Whole Foods mid-week and had a few samples of this:

Hol-ee cow, it's delish.  I am new to the almond butter game, and this is a delightful intro.  Kind of like candy cigarettes are the gateway to real ones, fruit and flavor-laden almond butter is the gateway to full-on almond butter.  Or something like that.  Lots of flavors to choose from, too.  I have been enjoying this on banana slices, thin on banana, heavy on the almond butter.  This would also be excellent stirred into oatmeal.  Or just eaten by the spoonful, and I can't say I haven't done a fair amount of that, too.

Dessert fail

It's such a bummer when something like this happens. You see a recipe and it looks really good on paper (and in pictures, in this case), so you go to the effort of assembling the ingredients and then preparing it and then...disappointment. For some reason it's worse when it's a dessert.

So I ran across the recipe a week or so ago. Chocolate, peanut butter, pretzel crust, what could go wrong? Not to mention that I was spurred on by my already-professed love of these:

 

But go wrong it did for reasons I haven't been able to specify. They sure looked tasty, though.

Maybe it was too much of  a good thing.  The crust was a little mushy and overall I think it was just too much.  These things filled a regular-size muffin cup, so they were the size of a cupcake.  Even a Justin's pb cup would be too much in that size.  Granted, these were not purported to be a pb cup, they are pb pies.  I couldn't even finish one.  Lori finished hers but later said she did it so she wouldn't hurt my feelings.  Oy.  I mean, it's dessert.  It's optional.  If it's not good, for Pete's sake, don't eat it!

 

I'll be backing off the peanut butter desserts for quite awhile.  I didn't blog about it, but I also made a peanut butter ice cream pie a few weeks ago (with a Nutter Butter crust, no less--again, what could go wrong?  But it did), which you'd think would have taught me a lesson.  But, no.  I shall stick to what I know, and that is Justin's pb cups are the gold standard.  Lesson learned.