Carne asada

I discovered that the butcher I usually go to carries flank steak a while ago. The price was appealing, so I picked up a slab and made carne asada with it.

Carne asada is a fairly simply dish to make. The trick for great flavour is to let the flank steak soak in the marinade for at least four hours and preferably overnight.

Carne asada with baby gems and sautéed potatoes

Steak on the bone

I picked up what was billed as T-bone steaks from the butcher's last week. When I was preparing them for dinner last Sunday, I wasn't quite sure what I was given was in fact T-bone. I mean, where is the T in the bone? 

Grilled steak on the bone, roasted garlic, potato wedges, steamed broccoli

Minute steak with chips and asparagus

Husband went to the shops last weekend and came home with a few things, minute steaks being one of them. The last time I had a minute steak was nearly three years when I was in the hospital. While the meals were generally good in the two weeks I was in there, that minute steak was overcooked, resulting in a piece of chewy, tough meat, thus ruining my impression of the cut.

Minute steaks with romaine lettuce, hand-cooked potato chips, asparagus with balsamic vinegar

35th birthday dinner

organic strip loin, rosemary potatoes roasted in goose fat, sugar snaps, cheesy garlic biscuit, salsa pepolata

dark chocolate chai cake

Rib eye steak

A few friends and colleagues have raved about the quality of fresh produce at Aldi and Lidl. While I don't usually shop there, mainly because they don't ever seem to stock most of my regular grocery items, I did pop in Aldi on my way back from the Beacon Hospital last. The Aldi out in Rockbrook is very neatly laid out and well stock. I had a look at their fresh meat section and was pleasantly surprised to find some quality cuts. I picked up a couple of Angus rib eye steaks (which I had never bought or cooked before) and Wicklow lamb rump steaks along with a few other items.