Recipes on hiatus.

 Due to me injuring my foot stepping off a sidewalk, I am relegated to giving instructions to the replacement chef and sous chef. Which means, a lot of instruction and no pictures, not to mention any really complicated meals. Hobbling back and forth in a tiny space with a walking boot on does not make for quick or easy cooking.

We are having 'carne asada' or sorts today, using not flanks steak but a 'chuck steak' from Costco that was labeled as such. Just thinly sliced steak with a good amount of fat. 

First, had to glean some cilantro leaves from the garden neighbor since none of mine is ready to harvest again. Steak was marinated in a recipe from the pinterest, I never seem to have oranges or pineapple juice for doing that. Mainly because I don't know what I'm going to have for the month and then run out of money for 'extras'. 

'Mexican Carne Asada Marinade':

Skirt steak (or thinly sliced chuck)

1/3 c olive oil

1/4 c soy sauce

1 med lime juiced (I fudged and used a 1/4 lime juice from bottle

2 tbl orange juice (substituted 1/4 lemon juice and tbl honey)

2 tbl red wine vinegar

1/2 c onion, diced

1/4 cilantro chopped (didn't get the cilantro until after it was marinating)

4 cloves garlic, crushed

1 med serrano pepper (I used 1/2 a large jalapeno sliced)

2 tsp salt

2 tsp chili powder

1 tsp black pepper

1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes.

 

Me being in California all my life, Mexican food and recipes are everywhere. Those in the Midwest or North East aren't as familiar with what 'real' Mexican food is so I guess they had to label this to make sure people knew which variety of carne asada it was. (Insert confused questioning CA expression).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First of all, I was not able to double check to make sure the measurements used were correct. Given that you use 2 tsp of salt and a 1/4 cup soy sauce, this was rather salty. It was absolutely delicious though, cooking was not what I would have done either. 

As I was sitting in the bedroom resting my foot, I started giving instructions on how to cook the meat and it was too late. Substitute chef just dumped the entire bag of meat and marinade into the pan and was going to heat it up that way. This is how the packaged pollo asado is cooked that we get at Costco. This is not the way it should be cooked. But then, we don't have a grill handy either. My instructions were high heat before putting the meat in the pan with a little oil..... oh well. Boiled, marinated meat it was. I had mine as tacos, as usual, fresh made pico de gallo, sour cream and a little White Sauce with a spoonful of the marinade for extra flavor. Honestly, it was fine.

Also had garlic 'salsa verde' shrimp last week which was spectacular of course. We got a two pound bag of medium size shrimp, flash frozen so they were all individually encased in ice. A much better deal than the bag I was going to get at our usual store. So that's a do again.

Posts will be few and far between for the next four weeks. Enjoy what you have, have what you enjoy!