This one's for you Amy!
I don't really care if this food is super good for me or not. I just know that it's really good! A lot of fresh vegetables are used which means it is at least somewhat good for you. :)This little meal is a family favorite.
Carne Asada Tacos
-3 pounds steak tenderloin
-1/3 cup of white vinegar
-1/2 cup soy sauce
-4 cloves of garlic, minced
-2 limes, juiced
-1/2 cup olive oil
-1 tsp. salt
-1 tsp. pepper
-1 tsp. garlic powder
-1 tsp. chili powder
-1 tsp. oregano
-1 tsp. cumin
-1 tsp. paprika
Mix these ingredients together in a shallow bowl. Marinate the steak for 1-8 hours. When ready to cook it, cut the steak into small bits. Cook in an iron skillet until lightly brown. Serve in small authentic corn tortillas with the following:
-mashed avocado or your homemade guacamole (avocado, cilantro, salt and lemon juice is good)
-homemade salsa (recipe below)
-cilantro
Homemade Salsa
-3 fresh tomatoes
-1 whole yellow or white onion, cut into a few large chunks
-3-4 cloves of garlic
-2-3 serrano peppers, seeded
-1 bunch of cilantro (or less if you aren't a huge cilantro fan)
-2 tsp. of salt (to taste)
-2 tsp. lime juice
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place tomatoes, onion, garlic, and peppers on a pan. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with a little salt. Roast for about 30 minutes or until softened. Put the roasted vegetables as well as the rest of the ingredients in a food processor and blend to desired texture. Taste and add any extra salt or seasonings.
*If you prefer using the Fire Roasted canned tomatoes instead of fresh you can subsitute 1 can for 2 of the tomatoes and just use 1 fresh tomato instead. Voila! Perfect salsa.
The last recipe is great for tortilla chip dip or to use on basic ground beef or chicken tacos. It's soooooo good.
Cilantro Dip (can you tell we like cilantro?)
-1 8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
-1 TB. sour cream
-1 can tomatillo salsa (preferably the green kind)
-1 tsp. pepper
-1 tsp. celery salt
-1/2 tsp. cumin
-2 tsp. garlic powder
-1 bunch of cilantro
-1 TB. lime fresh lime juice
Add all ingredients to a food processor and blend well. Put in the refrigerator to allow thickening. Serve with tortilla chips. To die for!
Joy, this is for you! :)
15 years ago
6 comments:
OOOO Yummy! We make something similar to your carne asada but its pollo and we grill the meat and shred it. I'm SO excited to try your salsa and cilantro dip recipes. Yumm!
sounds amazing! I'm totally going to make this. I think it's wonderfully healthy, too. Especially if you use grass-fed beef and you could even do cultured cream cheese/kefir in the cream recipe! :) UBER healthy!
Em
I hope you guys love it as much as we do. And yes, Emily, we only use grass fed beef here. I don't add all those details because I think people would get annoyed with me. Same for organic. You can always assume the ingredients are organic, fresh, grass fed, antibiotic free, free range, animals, vegetables and fruit. :) Aren't you starting a health blog sometime?? If you do let me know. I'll link it on here...not that many people read this. :)
Joy, I totally know you guys use all the best...I was just being annoying! :) But, I did branch off my main blog and start a health one too. It's called Nourish :: Body . www.nourishbody1@blogspot.com
I'd love that! Thanks! :)
OH MY GOSH! I am just now reading this!!!!!!! I LOVE LOVE Cilantro too! Oh man Oh man... I am going to make this...Especially the Cilantro Dip???? Yum! The thing I hate about cilantro is the picking it off the bunch.. it takes foreva!
Love you!
Thanks for the shout out on your Healthy blog... I was just looking at your FB profile interests and thinking... Hmm, I don't really do a whole lot of earth friendly living. Hmmm, I don't really get into holistic nutrition. Hmm, I don't really get into language so much.
But I do love to travel and I do love orphan care. So 2 out of 5 isn't so bad I guess! :)
You are seriously such a BF to me! I love you friend!
Amy, after washing the cilantro take a knife and sort of scrape off the little leaves instead of individually pulling them off. I found that it is much faster !
Thanks for the sweet love my friend. :) :)
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