Taco Soup? Yes Please!

I got my crockpot back! My wonderful nephew brought it back the other night so.. time for the recipe I have been waiting all week to cook!! TACO SOUP! I have never had it. Honestly I have never heard of it but let me say this.. mmmm..mmmm..good! Zak and I had Lauren and Jason over last night for dinner. What a perfect time to cook some goodness. 

When I was getting all the ingredients out I realized that I did not have any taco seasoning.. No worries, Mady to the rescue! We made our own. and let me add, I she nailed it!! My recipe below.. It was better than any seasoning pack for sure!!

Pour in bowl, add sour cream and cheese, (I added red hot hot sauce.. my fav on everything!) Serve with chips

Slow Cooker Taco Soup

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 (16 ounce) can chili beans, with liquid
• 1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans with liquid
• 1 (15 ounce) can whole kernel corn, with liquid
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 2 cups water
• 2 (14.5 ounce) cans peeled and diced tomatoes
• 1 (4 ounce) can diced green chile peppers
• 1 (1.25 ounce) package taco seasoning mix

Directions

1. In a medium skillet, cook the ground beef until browned over medium heat. Drain, and set aside.
2. Place the ground beef, onion, chili beans, kidney beans, corn, tomato sauce, water, diced tomatoes, green Chile peppers and taco seasoning mix in a slow cooker. Mix to blend, and cook on Low setting for 8 hours.

Tweaks and Notes 

• I crossed off the ingredients that I did not use. I used pinto beans instead of kidney beans but I only used about a third of the can
• I, of course, add garlic powder
• I used frozen corn instead of caned corn. Cooked the corn first though
• I added a tad bit more water since I did not have "can corn juice"
• I used my own taco seasoning!

Mom and Madz Taco Seasoning

Ingredients (these are a guess of each amount.. I kinda just added by taste)

• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon onion minced
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon sea salt

Directions

1. Mix all together and set aside until time of use 

By the way, I am going to stop linking my recipes because I get the majority from allrecipes.com. I look at a few different, take what I like from each or just one and make it my own.