So here’s a recipe I found for home-made taco seasoning that I’ve modified a bit.  It’s gluten free, and flavor-full!  

• ¼ tsp garlic powder
• ¼ tsp onion powder
• dash of cayenne pepper powder
• ¼ tsp dried oregano
• ½ tsp paprika
• 1 ½ tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp ground black pepper

You can replace the cayenne pepper with ¼ tsp of crushed red pepper flakes, and add 1 tbsp of chili powder to give it some more kick and flavor, but we prefer a milder spiciness.

Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl until they are well blended.  Then add to your meat after it is fully cooked, but still in the pan, with 1 cup of water and simmer until the liquid is gone.  I’ve also added the juice of ½ lime, and just under a cup of water, and it worked very well!

Enjoy!

Not that I don’t have confidence in my abilities, but I didn’t think I’d get them to the top spot! 

Dadanco, a Joint Venture with Mestek, is a supplier of Active Chilled Beams, an energy efficient method of delivering cool air.  They have other similar products that use induced secondary air to help increase the efficiency and comfort of traditional "all air" systems.  It’s pretty neat, even though I don’t fully understand it all.

So where am I going with all of this?  As the webmaster for Mestek, Inc.  I created the website for Dadanco from the ground up, and went back a few times to optimize the site for search engines.  I just followed all that I had read and heard about, and filled in the blanks with intuition.  All that work has payed off, and they hit Google’s numer 1 spot for the keyword they were most interested in.  Granted, there were a lot of contributing factors, but I had encouraged them all, if not done them myself.

Hopefully now I can keep them there!