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Food Nostalgia

Food Nostalgia

When you become a foodie or when you go to culinary school or you’ve kinda just decided to widen your horizons in food sometimes certain things you used to eat get ruined but I still believe there are some places or thing that we eat 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone and happy holidays for anyone else who isn’t celebrating. I hope every one is sharing these awesome days of happiness with the people you love and the friendships you cherish. I’m so grateful for you all and I hope you have an 

Carne Asada, Dinner Today

Carne Asada, Dinner Today

Lime marinated carne asada soft tacos with cotija cheese, lettuce, and cilantro served w/ roasted onion and Roma tomato Spanish rice

 I put a little of this and a little of that but for the most part here it is

3 limes cut in 1/2 and juiced
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 white onion
1 teaspoon Salt
cracked black pepper
1/2 bunch of cilantro minced
1 tablespoon cumin
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon dried chili powder
1 tablespoon red chili flakes
2 tablespoons garlic powder
2 tablespoons onion powder
4 splashes of soy sauce or you can use Worcester sauce too

about 1 and a half  to two pounds of flap steak which will have some silver attached to the back you need to clean it very well from all that connective tissue or you’ll have tough carne asada.

Add all the dry ingredients and wet in a small bowl and mix together. This is what i used I’m pretty sure I through things together quickly but you may like the marinade more spicy but so you know this is a spicy marinade to begin with or to have more acid so make sure you make the marinade aside from the meat and taste it to see if you’d like more fresh herbs. Recipes have to be adjust to personal taste that’s always my philosophy use this as a base and add things you love.

After you’ve tasted it then add the meat, you can toss in the lime rinds for extra flavor, and onions to the mixture toss and leave in a plastic bag up to 24 hours. This marinade actually is not very very wet so just make sure every things saturated. If it looks too dry add a bit of water or stock to it which will keep meat moist for holding overnight but you shouldn’t need it.

I didn’t put any oil in this which i thought was kinda weird but it still came out really good

Then drain off excess moisture and grill or what I did cause I don’t have a grill is just use a grill pan and heated an oven to 450 cooked the meat for about 7-9 minutes and moved the pieces around about 4 minutes in and done. Slice up the meat on a bias which means against the grain of the meat. Another technique that will keep the meat from getting though.

Carne asada let me know how you like it if you decide to try it 🙂

Veggie… fied
Use Zucchini, Chayote, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote Bell peppers, and Red Onions, Even Fried Tofu, and marinade them with the spices i have up there for the beef

just as good even better

Food Projects as of late… enjoy

Food Projects as of late… enjoy

Peperonchio and Pomodoro(red pepper and tomato) Braised Rapini and spinach Linguine Beef ribs braised in orange ale and bay leaf cinnamon butternut squash empanadas fideo with roasted tomato, corn, and cilantro braised chicken thighs with chayote squash and pasilla chile Spaghetti pomodoro, basilica, il manzo 

Pad Thai and Brother in Laws Birthday

Pad Thai and Brother in Laws Birthday

Pad Thai I made from scratch pad thai 3large meal size/5 small sides Servings ________________________________________ 1/2 lime 1 egg 4 teaspoons fish sauce (if you don’t want to buy a whole bottle of fish sauce you can use soy sauce it will taste different but 

Latest Meals

Latest Meals


Blue Corn tortilla, spanish onion, black olive, and colby jack cheese Chili Roja enchiladas with mashed pinto beans and cilantro onion white Spanish rice

Chili Roja salsa

re-hydrating peppers


Red Cabbage and sweet white corn chowder

simple yum! Chicken with pan gravy and biscuits roasted carrots and mash

Gnocchi

Marinara

Sunomono

Beef, celery, and scallion wontons,potato croquettes, Chicken Katsu, tofu, white rice, and sunomono

Cheers

Unrivaledkitch