Christy from A Lil Rare Welshbit offered up another recipe for us. (She has a great food blog too).
This recipe is from my archives, but it's one of our all time favorite summer grilling recipes. It's easy and delicious, plus you get to drink margaritas with the leftover tequila. It's a win-win, really. Except for those of you who don't drink...maybe you could borrow some tequila from your neighbors and then pay them back with a bite of steak! (What Christy doesn't know is that none of our neighbors have tequila either!) ;)
Marinated flank steak with tequila lime sauce
Flank Steak Marinade
4 garlic cloves crushed and chopped
2 tbsp fresh lime juice
2 tbsp orange juice
2 tsp chili powder
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 tsp brown sugar
3 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp chopped cilantro
1 tsp liquid smoke
Refrigerate in bag in the fridge for 2-4 hours before grilling. When you grill, be sure to remove the bits or they'll stick to the steak.
Grill for 5 minutes on each side for a hot pink center (or longer if you're like me and need it well done)! Then brush with marinade prior to serving.
Tequila Lime Sauce
1/2 cup white tequila
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
2 tablespoons minced shallots
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 turns freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup heavy cream
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut up, at room temperature (1 stick)
Combine the tequila, lime juice, shallots, garlic, cilantro, salt and pepper in a saute pan over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce by half. Stir in the cream and simmer for 3 minutes. Whisk in the butter and remove from the heat. Continue whisking until all of the butter is incorporated.
Dribble over steak and serve immediately. Enjoy!
Thanks Christy!!! Can't wait to try it!
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Easy, Medium and Hard
We have Christy here with us again. Aren't we lucky to have so many great people posting shtuff for us?! I love this and it has the wheels of my mind turning.
Well, it's June 3, summer is here, and I don't know about you, but I've sort of forgotten about my New Year's Resolutions. Since we're now nearing the mid-way point of the year, I've decided to dust off my goals, and simplify. So, I'm setting myself some attainable, short term (month-long) goals. Three of them: easy, medium and hard.
Does this remind you of the Do-Withouters who started off with a bang *me included* and then withered away? I know our fearless leader stayed the course (BRAVO - Standing Ovation from me!!!), but I am not sure how many others did. I had the best of intentions, but just wasn't able to follow-through...
So these short-term goals I'm talking about today don't necessarily have to do with food-intake or exercise or anything like that. They could be: learn to skateboard, do one self-less act a week, read a page of the dictionary a night, or start making my Christmas shopping list now and buy one item a month (Or am I the only Christmas freak here? No one else starts their shopping in the summer?!)
Here are mine:
Easy - Master one new meal. Any suggestions? (In May I mastered this super-duper easy and delicious one dish wonder: rosemary roast chicken - it's now part of our regular menu rotation and I suggest you try it out too!)
Medium - Get crafty. I used to needlepoint, scrapbook and just make things. I've gotten away from that. I haven't decided what to pursue yet, but by the end of the month I plan to be working on a new project. Probably needlepoint, but I'm not sure.
Hard - Stick to my triathlon training program, without missing even one day. 'Nuff said.
What do you think? Let us know - are you in? If not, that's fine. But if you are, share with us. What are your goals? Easy, medium and hard. Or just one. Whatever works for you.
Well, it's June 3, summer is here, and I don't know about you, but I've sort of forgotten about my New Year's Resolutions. Since we're now nearing the mid-way point of the year, I've decided to dust off my goals, and simplify. So, I'm setting myself some attainable, short term (month-long) goals. Three of them: easy, medium and hard.
Does this remind you of the Do-Withouters who started off with a bang *me included* and then withered away? I know our fearless leader stayed the course (BRAVO - Standing Ovation from me!!!), but I am not sure how many others did. I had the best of intentions, but just wasn't able to follow-through...
So these short-term goals I'm talking about today don't necessarily have to do with food-intake or exercise or anything like that. They could be: learn to skateboard, do one self-less act a week, read a page of the dictionary a night, or start making my Christmas shopping list now and buy one item a month (Or am I the only Christmas freak here? No one else starts their shopping in the summer?!)
Here are mine:
Easy - Master one new meal. Any suggestions? (In May I mastered this super-duper easy and delicious one dish wonder: rosemary roast chicken - it's now part of our regular menu rotation and I suggest you try it out too!)
Medium - Get crafty. I used to needlepoint, scrapbook and just make things. I've gotten away from that. I haven't decided what to pursue yet, but by the end of the month I plan to be working on a new project. Probably needlepoint, but I'm not sure.
Hard - Stick to my triathlon training program, without missing even one day. 'Nuff said.
What do you think? Let us know - are you in? If not, that's fine. But if you are, share with us. What are your goals? Easy, medium and hard. Or just one. Whatever works for you.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Welsh Pancakes
Ladies & gents (by a show of hands how many gents are reading this???), we are thrilled to have Christy with us today. She is a friend we have acquired through this here project we have going and we are quite taken with her. She's like a good Neil Young tune - has a Heart of Gold and writes 2 delightful blogs. This one is her personal blog (I LOVE this post [which features one of our dear Mavis's creations]. How can you not want to curl up and drool -affectionately- all over someone who says "I have a magnet on my fridge that says 'My goal is do something outrageous every day"...and it's true...that is one of my goals, EVERY DAY!!!'"). And she also has a food blog. I made this salmon last night and it was fantastic. My kids even devoured it. Christy is going to be posting recipes and other delights regularly so let's welcome her. Thanks for being here Christy!
Hi - I'm Christy, and I am thrilled to be guest posting here on one of my all-time favorite blogs today!
Since summer is coming (here on the east coast -- I understand it may already be hot out there in Utah where I believe many of you readers might live) I thought I'd share one of our family's favorite summer-time desserts: Welsh pancakes.
We're a British-American family after all - my husband is Welsh, I'm American, and our lucky daughter has dual citizenship. Since we currently live on this side of the pond, we try to incorporate as many British'isms and British meals into our life as possible, so my husband doesn't get homesick - and because I'm a Welsh-Wannabe. We watch rugby, drink wine with our meals, and eschew Hershey's for Cadbury, thank you very much. But one of my favorite British traditions are these pancakes - which look and taste a whole lot like crepes.
I admit, it took me a while, but now when I hear pancake, I don't think of the kind of stack you see at IHOP. I think of what I call a crepe. Mmm...
These pancakes are traditionally a dessert after a big dinner. Brits love them. Over there, Shrove Tuesday is also known as Pancake Day. For a quick, concise history of this day, click here.
But seriously. Pancake Day...how cool is that? Can you imagine our country naming a holiday after a dessert? If we ever did that, I'd lobby hard for Cupcake Day. Man, that would be great.
But back to the pancakes.
We think Delia has the best recipe, and we've adapted hers found here. Here is how we make them at our house:
Ingredients
4 oz of plain flour (about half a cup - if you have a scale, use that instead of measuring it in cups)
pinch of salt
2 large eggs
7 oz milk mixed with 3 oz water (same deal with the measurement here - 7 oz is about 3/4 cups, 3 oz is less than half a cup)
a few pats of butter
lemon juice (fresh or the fake-lemon plastic variety)
powdered sugar
regular sugar
Instructions
Sift flour into large bowl. Make well in center of flour and crack two eggs into the well.
Begin whisking egg and flour together with a whisk, or a fork. Slowly add milk/water mixture, whisking in between pourings. Mixture will be lumpy at first, but they will eventually disappear.
Melt the butter in a non-stick frying pan, which you will use for making the pancakes. We use a medium-sized pan, about 12 inches.
Add 2 TBSPs melted butter to the batter mixture. Set the remainder aside for greasing pan between pancakes.
Heat pan on high heat for about a minute or two, until the pan is really hot. Add a little of the melted butter. Then pour in slightly less than a 1/3 cup of the mixture (more than a 1/4, but less than a third...) to the hot pan. Swirl the mixture around the pan (lifting pan off burner as you swirl) to completely cover the bottom of the pan with the mixture. Cook for about 30 seconds. At that point you should be able to jiggle the pan and the pancake should come loose from the pan. You can carefully lift up the edge of the pancake with a spatula to check and see if it's lightly gold/brown on the bottom. When it is, flip it, and cook the other side.
When it's done, gently slide it out of the pan onto a plate.
We like to eat them immediately - they're toasty warm and crispy around the edges this way. We suggest enjoying the pancakes three ways:
1. Spread a small amount of butter on them, sprinkle with a little lemon juice and sugar. Roll, and devour. Mmm.
2. If you want to add a little color to your plate, mix up some fresh fruit. We like grapes, strawberries and blackberries all mixed together, along with a bit of vanilla yogurt (if we were making these in Britain we would probably use Creme Fraise - but it's definitely more healthy to use yogurt). Roll up, sprinkle with confectioner's sugar and enjoy!
3. And for the most decadent dessert... my favorite...melt some semi-sweet chocolate chips in the microwave (stirring occasionally - takes a couple of minutes), spread on the pancake. Roll up, sprinkle with confectioner's sugar. Enjoy!
And here's what they look like when we're done. (I don't have a picture of the chocolate ones because we made these last night and we try to be healthy during the week!)
Yum!
I hope you try these out with your friends and family this summer. If you do, feel free to leave a comment here or on this recipe on my food blog, What We Eat . I'd love to hear from you!
Hi - I'm Christy, and I am thrilled to be guest posting here on one of my all-time favorite blogs today!
Since summer is coming (here on the east coast -- I understand it may already be hot out there in Utah where I believe many of you readers might live) I thought I'd share one of our family's favorite summer-time desserts: Welsh pancakes.
We're a British-American family after all - my husband is Welsh, I'm American, and our lucky daughter has dual citizenship. Since we currently live on this side of the pond, we try to incorporate as many British'isms and British meals into our life as possible, so my husband doesn't get homesick - and because I'm a Welsh-Wannabe. We watch rugby, drink wine with our meals, and eschew Hershey's for Cadbury, thank you very much. But one of my favorite British traditions are these pancakes - which look and taste a whole lot like crepes.
I admit, it took me a while, but now when I hear pancake, I don't think of the kind of stack you see at IHOP. I think of what I call a crepe. Mmm...
These pancakes are traditionally a dessert after a big dinner. Brits love them. Over there, Shrove Tuesday is also known as Pancake Day. For a quick, concise history of this day, click here.
But seriously. Pancake Day...how cool is that? Can you imagine our country naming a holiday after a dessert? If we ever did that, I'd lobby hard for Cupcake Day. Man, that would be great.
But back to the pancakes.
We think Delia has the best recipe, and we've adapted hers found here. Here is how we make them at our house:
Ingredients
4 oz of plain flour (about half a cup - if you have a scale, use that instead of measuring it in cups)
pinch of salt
2 large eggs
7 oz milk mixed with 3 oz water (same deal with the measurement here - 7 oz is about 3/4 cups, 3 oz is less than half a cup)
a few pats of butter
lemon juice (fresh or the fake-lemon plastic variety)
powdered sugar
regular sugar
Instructions
Sift flour into large bowl. Make well in center of flour and crack two eggs into the well.
Begin whisking egg and flour together with a whisk, or a fork. Slowly add milk/water mixture, whisking in between pourings. Mixture will be lumpy at first, but they will eventually disappear.
Melt the butter in a non-stick frying pan, which you will use for making the pancakes. We use a medium-sized pan, about 12 inches.
Add 2 TBSPs melted butter to the batter mixture. Set the remainder aside for greasing pan between pancakes.
Heat pan on high heat for about a minute or two, until the pan is really hot. Add a little of the melted butter. Then pour in slightly less than a 1/3 cup of the mixture (more than a 1/4, but less than a third...) to the hot pan. Swirl the mixture around the pan (lifting pan off burner as you swirl) to completely cover the bottom of the pan with the mixture. Cook for about 30 seconds. At that point you should be able to jiggle the pan and the pancake should come loose from the pan. You can carefully lift up the edge of the pancake with a spatula to check and see if it's lightly gold/brown on the bottom. When it is, flip it, and cook the other side.
When it's done, gently slide it out of the pan onto a plate.
We like to eat them immediately - they're toasty warm and crispy around the edges this way. We suggest enjoying the pancakes three ways:
1. Spread a small amount of butter on them, sprinkle with a little lemon juice and sugar. Roll, and devour. Mmm.
2. If you want to add a little color to your plate, mix up some fresh fruit. We like grapes, strawberries and blackberries all mixed together, along with a bit of vanilla yogurt (if we were making these in Britain we would probably use Creme Fraise - but it's definitely more healthy to use yogurt). Roll up, sprinkle with confectioner's sugar and enjoy!
3. And for the most decadent dessert... my favorite...melt some semi-sweet chocolate chips in the microwave (stirring occasionally - takes a couple of minutes), spread on the pancake. Roll up, sprinkle with confectioner's sugar. Enjoy!
And here's what they look like when we're done. (I don't have a picture of the chocolate ones because we made these last night and we try to be healthy during the week!)Yum!
I hope you try these out with your friends and family this summer. If you do, feel free to leave a comment here or on this recipe on my food blog, What We Eat . I'd love to hear from you!
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