Cinnamon tacos

The other night Darr came home from work and started preparing dinner. On the menu for the evening - tacos. He wanted to try a new technique he learned to heat up the soft taco shells over the open flame of the stove and was in the process of prepping the taco fixings (e.g., sautéing the ground beef, grating the cheese). We used to get those taco seasoning packages at the store until we read the ingredients and figured we could come up with a combination that would be as good as what they offered without all of the additional preservatives. Our standard concoction includes salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, and depending on whether or not we have any onions on hand to fry up with the meat, onion salt. It's a pretty basic mix. But sometimes, when you've got a sweet but slightly distracted husband, you end up with a dish that tastes a little like the meatballs you ordered at Eleni's Philoxenia & Estiatorio and as you take your second and third bites you realize that you recognize the flavor and then it hits you that what you are consuming is cinnamon-flavored meat and cheese tacos. Because the cinnamon is right next to the cayenne pepper on the spice rack you recently organized alphabetically.