Sausage Apple Tartlets with Goat Cheese

• Heat oil or butter in a skillet over medium heat and add onions.

• Add salt so that onions will 'sweat.'

• Cook until onions are translucent, stirring occasionally.

• Add sausage, breaking up with the back of a spoon into very small pieces.

• When the sausage had just lost its pink color, add the apples. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the apples are crisp-tender.

• Remove the pan from the heat.

• Stir in the honey and the goat cheese, stirring to thoroughly mix.

• Fill tart shells with mixture and serve warm.

• 1 tsp. vegetable oil or butter

• 1 medium onion, diced small

• ½ pound mild sausage

• 1 sweet cooking apple (such as Golden Delicious), peeled and diced small

• 4 oz. goat cheese (chevre)

• 2 tsp. honey

• Tostitos Scoops tortilla chips or other tart shells

Optional Garnish: If you want to create a fancy garnish for these tartlets, you can finish them with fried sage leaves. Heat 1/3 cup olive oil in a large pan over medium heat. Test the oil temperature by placing one sage leaf in the oil – if it sizzles, the oil is ready. Drop 1/3 cup whole fresh sage leaves into the oil. Cook until the leaves are speckled and begin to turn very dark green. Scoop out the leaves and let them drain on a paper towel.