Comfort food: Fajitas

Tom won an award for this recipe. Okay, not really. We had fajitas out at the farm, and, for some reason, the meat ended up in two pans. Amy (Tom's sister) and Tom decided to have a cook-off, with each of them seasoning one pan of meat. Without knowing whose was whose, everyone tasted, and voted, and Tom's won. They are a staple in our house now.

Meat (I prefer chicken, Tom likes steak.)
onions
peppers (red, yellow, and orange all make it pretty and add a slightly sweeter flavor that I like. But, they are pricier, so we use green mostly.)

Cut it all in strips. Heat oil in a pan, and add the meat. After it cooks a little, add onions. Then, you start seasoning, and this is where the secret comes in- ranch powder. Dump a bunch of ranch dressing powder in. (We buy it in bulk at Sams just for this.) Yep, that's it. Yummy. We use chili powder (some hot and some mild to make it medium, but do it how you want) and ranch powder. After the meat is all cooked and tender, throw in strips of pepper. You want the peppers to go in last so there is a little crunch to them, but not much crunch.

Place in a tortilla. Top with the typical toppings- lettuce, tomato, sour cream, salsa, guacamole, olives, cheese. Sometimes, we put the meat and cheese on the tortilla and nuke it for a few seconds, or throw it in the hot oven for a few minutes, until the cheese is all melty and yummy.

So, not really a recipe, but the beauty of comfort food is that it can be made for how you are feeling in that moment.