Easy Shredded-Meat Tacos

This is delicious. And deliciously easy. Another one of my I'm-not-sure-how-much-I-use recipes, but since I don't really know and never go too wrong, I doubt you will, either.

You will need:
chicken or pork
salsa
brown sugar

Flavors will be enchanced with:
minced garlic (I buy it pre-minced, in bulk from Sam's Club)
dried minced onion (Yes, fresh would be yummy, too, this is my shortcut)
oregano
salt and pepper
cumin

Put a little salsa in the bottom of your crockpot. Put the meat on top. Cover the meat with salsa. Throw a bunch of brown sugar on top, followed by some minced garlic, sprinkle around some dried minced onion, oregano, salt, pepper, and cumin. You can't taste it now, obviously, but don't be afraid to be generous with spicing, it will taste great. If you only put brown sugar and salsa with the meat, it will still taste great.

Today I cooked about 1.5 lbs of chicken on high, and it took about 2.5 hours. Maybe less, that's when I checked. Lower and slower is always good when trying to get tenderness, but mine was just fine. For that much chicken I used about 1/3 cup of brown sugar and a couple of teaspoons of garlic.

SO EASY, DO IT! You dump a couple of things in a crockpot, and then at dinner time all you do is slice lettuce and tomatoes, warm some tortillas, go to all the effort of getting sour cream out of the fridge, and voila! Josh said he loves this food. It's the idea behind all of the Cafe Rio recipes, but way simpler. So, add to it what you want, serve with it what you want, but as for me and my pregnant self, I had a delicious dinner with 10 total minutes of work. Not bad.