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Hey hey, everyone and good Sunday Morning.
Feeling right chipper today!
Sorry, let me try that intro again.
“Welcome to Jackass! I’m yeah right and I call this one ‘Airbag Deployment!’”
So yeah. When I initially laid down the “bare bones” for today’s episode I was feeling pretty goddamn chipper. Apparently too chipper for Fate’s fickle ass.
Then motherfucker turned left in front of me while I was driving on the way to work and here I fucking am.
New doctors, soon to be new car, new attorneys, I’m beat to shit and my forearm look like a goddamn horror movie as the chemical burn from the airbag is now slowly sliding right off my fucking arm.
Long sleeves are fashionable this year!
But who really gives a shit when…
It’s Euro Travel Week! I do have to work Monday dammit but we’re off to Paris on Tuesday. Weather looks partly cloudy, not a real chance of rain with daily highs in the upper 60’s and a low at night around 50 degrees. Fucking perfect April weather.
One of the best things about renting a property instead of a hotel room is having a washer and dryer in the unit. Shit, I only have to take like 3 changes of clothes and can travel light as a motherfucker!
It’s go time!
Got a real quick, easy and delicious meal for you today. Think of a “taco skillet” or “Mexican style beef and bean bake” or maybe “Nacho ready topping” dish or shit, all of the above. You can do whatever the fuck you want with it from nachos to burritos, you can roll it up in enchiladas, you can drop this shit directly in a taco shell. Hell, you can grab a tortilla and just grab scoopfuls directly from the skillet and shove it in your face.
Do YOU! Be weird if you want!
We went the tostada direction for service today and also just used some tostada pieces to scoop our food item right out of the skillet.
Versatile, quick, inexpensive and goddamn delicious. Plus shit’s easy as fuck to clean up too! AND it’s all done in one motherfucking skillet. From burner to stove.
Who wants some?
Let’s fucking go!
While I was initially inspired by Recipetineats.com – yet again – I adapted this one with my very own flair so I’ll take ownership of this bastard.
Mexican Style Skillet – Uh, Thing!
Some olive oil – couple “too tree” tablespoons
1 onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely minced
1 green chile pepper – poblano or pasilla – fire roasted and diced
1 red bell pepper – fire roasted and diced
1 lb ground beef, pork or whatever protein you like
14 oz can black beans, drained
1 8 oz can of tomato sauce
Some pickled sliced jalapeño – you decide the amount
Some grated cheese – I used 4 cheese Mexican blend
Spice Blend
1 1/2 tsp cumin powder
1 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp dried Mexican oregano
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 tsp kosher salt
Let’s go ahead and purchase/judge some store bought salsas while we’re at it. Why the fuck not?
Two types of salsa to fuck around with today. These are 2 very different salsas, pineapple habanero and 3 chile green salsa. While researching store bought salsas – of course – that exact salsa you see on the left was prominently mentioned. Yes that exact one. Simple Truth is the Kroger generic brand and the article I read mentioned Simple Truth pineapple habanero specifically. It was right there in stock at my local Ralph’s. This shit was ranked like in the top 3 of all pre-made salsas.
For good reason too. Fucker is damn tasty and has a legitimate kick.
The green salsa? Not so much. I’ll get to that later.
We are going to start off today by fire roasting our peppers.
The red bell first.
Go all scorched earth on its ass. Blister that damn thing.
Do the same thing with the poblano (pasilla) pepper.
Cover with plastic wrap while they cool, thus steaming the blackened skins loose.
People? I do this shit all of the time.
After they’ve cooled and you’ve removed the blackened skins give them a good hacking.
Combine them with a diced onion thus giving us a Mexican or Southwest “Holy trinity.” This is a real actual legitimate thing that I made up all by myself. I think.
Our dish today will be started on the stove top and finished in the oven. Go ahead and preheat the oven to about 375.
Sweat the veggies down for 5-7 minutes in a cast iron skillet that’s been lubed up with some olive oil.
Add in the ground meat of your choice.
Cook until the meat browns.
Add in the spice blend and bring to a simmer for 3-4 minutes.
Then we add in the drained black beans, the garlic and the tomato sauce.
Stir to combine and simmer for about 5 minutes or so.
Top with as many or as few pickled jalapenos as you would like. I just did a scattered handful.
Cheese that fucker up!
Bake in the preheated 375 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes until the cheese gets melty and bubbly.
See! You can do anything with this shit!
Grab a 12 pack and a napkin and get down with your bad ass selves.
We used the now familiar tostada “chips” and made real tostadas.
If you will please notice the red and green salsas have both been employed.
But you can do whatever the fuck you want with it.
Doesn’t that look fucking delicious? It really, really was too! It’s super goddamn tasty. Beefy, beany, cheesy, crunchy. This shit does it all. Adjust your heat levels for your guests and everyone is going to love this fucker.
The bite with the pineapple habanero was a much better bite than the green “three chile” salsa. It was fine and did have that chile verde thing going but this particular brand came across as a little too astringent for my taste. Green chile salsa should also have more of a kick. It was fine but if you trust my opinion there are much better green salsas out there.
Or you could, you know, make your fucking own!
Leftovers from our dish today are perfectly fucking awesome as well. It makes a quick batch of nachos really simple to do.
Today’s “Fun” holidays courtesy of “A Bit of Good News”: “April 12 is International Day for Human Space Flight, National Grilled Cheese Day, National Licorice Day, National Only Child Day, Drop Everything and Read Day and Hamster Day.”
Basically everyday is “Drop Everything and Read Day” for this here motherfucker. I suppose I could make a grilled cheese to celebrate though. Sure. Why not?
We will be having a substitute teacher – I’m pretty sure? – in this space next week since my ass is off to Paris! Treat the new teacher well or I’ll send your ass to Detention when I return!
Best wishes everyone and enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
See you on the other side!
PEACE!
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