Main: Slow Cooked Mexican Beef
Delicious “Love to Eat” pg. 192
Dessert: Mango Galettes with Coconut Cream
Women’s Weekly Complete Cookbook pg. 310
Hi everyone!
This slow cooked beef is just another upmarket fajitas and what family doesn’t like fajitas. The meat is wonderfully tender and the flavour is rich and delicious. I recommend cooking this the day before as the flavours infuse really well. It called for tequila and as I have mentioned before, this blog is not about presenting recipes that are going to cost the earth and certainly if you go out and buy a bottle of tequila to use ¼ cup then it is not cost effective so I googled replacements and I used a couple of tablespoons of lime juice instead. Of course, if you have tequila or you are a tequila drinker then go knock yourself out. Please let me know how it tastes with the grog. With regard to the chilli and the jalapenos, you are not using the seeds so it is not as hot as it could be. I only used 1 jalapenos and it was quite mild so it is up to your personal taste. On the whole, very tasty but unremarkable and only scored a 7. The MAV loved it and continued eating it on toast when the tortillas ran out.
I am starting to think that maybe my fam is definitely becoming rather spoilt because when I served the dessert I was told that it did not “rate”!!!!! Hello! Excuse me! Brats.
The Mango Galettes are easy to do that is for sure, however, once again called for a liquor. I just used coconut flavouring with a dash of Grand Marnier which I had in the cupboard. The disappointing thing was that my pastry did not rise very well – pastry and I do not have a good relationship so that is something that I will be working on in the coming months. (I will let you into a little secret though, I realised that I forgot to prick the edges of the pastry – so keep that in mind when you try this.). MAV gave this 8/10 and he ate everyone’s leftovers.
Aiming for a 10/10 next week. Stay tuned.
From my table to yours with love.
