Too Hot Taco Pizza
As a request for my mother, I took a break from my experiments today to make her a taco pizza. Unfortunately, this pie has taught me a hard lesson about being in a hurry in the grocery store.
As I typically don’t stock the ingredients it takes to make my taco pizza, Ihad to make a late-night run to the store for taco sauce, taco seasoning mix and refried beans. In a buzz, I grabbed everything I needed and headed to the check out. The next day, as I was laying everything out for the pizza, I noted that the Ortega taco seasoning mix had the words “Hot and Spicy” written across the envelope. I paused, but continued with the process of browning the meat, taking a “we’ll see” approach.
Once I dumped the seasonings into the ground beef, I could see that this taco mix was much different than the mild mix that we normally used. There were spices in the mix which looked like dried hot peppers. A taste of the meat told me that the “Hot and Spicy” mix is a totally different flavor than what we had used in every other pie.
Despite all of these warnings, I went forward with the pizza. I figured it would either blend quite well and taste delicious, or it would over power the pizza and ruin the enjoyment. To my dismay (and to that of my mother) the latter occurred. The pizza was too spicy for anyone in our household. We each ate a slice or so then I wrapped the rest up and offered it to my neighbor. He claimed to like hot stuff, but I’ve received no word yet on how he felt about it. Shame.
