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Quick-Seared Poblano Beef Tips
Meat and potatoes, Rick Bayless-style. This easy recipe from Mexican Everyday features deliciously tender… tenderloin… dished up with potatoes and full-flavored, slightly spicy poblano peppers. We don’t cook tons of red meat and aren’t fans of huge slabs of beef, so this was a nice treat. The potatoes took a lot longer than suggested in […]
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Ropa Vieja with Vegetables
I’ve been in a meat-mood all week, so last night I made this shredded skirt-steak recipe from one of our favorite cookbooks, Healthy Latin Cooking. The steak is slow-cooked in wine and broth until it’s tender enough to easily shred with a fork. This recipe is made lighter than the traditional by the addition of […]
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Nicaraguan Churrasco
Our main dish tonight was this grilled beef tenderloin, with chimichurri sauce and grilled sweet onions. Tender, highly flavorful, and surprisingly quick. Both the steak and chimichurri recipes are from Healthy Latin Cuisine. Nicaraguan Grilled Beef Tenderloin———————————-1 lb beef tenderloin, trimmed of all visible fatsalt and ground black pepper1/2 onion, thinly sliced1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf […]
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Pepper-Beef Stir Fry
We were rushed for time tonight, so this recipe from Cooking Light’s SuperFast Suppers cookbook sounded perfect — it was on the table 20 minutes after cracking open the fridge. The sauce thickens nicely and certainly doesn’t taste “light”. Pepper-Beef Stir-Fry——————— 1 (5 oz) package Japanese curly noodles (chucka soba), uncooked 1/3 cup low-sodium soy […]
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Surin’s Thai Beef Salad
Jenn sent us this recipe for Spicy Thai Beef Salad, the way it’s made at Surin of Thailand in Atlanta. We liked this version better than the one we made a few weeks ago — it was a lot easier, and the meat cooked a lot faster on the grill since it was already sliced. […]