sunday. i usually have sundays off. my husband has plans to cook his own dinner tonight. he found a recipe for beef fajitas that he wants to try out. some men look at porn after their wives have crawled in to bed, mine reads old cookbooks. yesterday he found a book i picked up a few weeks ago at a charity shop for 25p- 'new mexico cook book, 175 recipes from the land of enchantment' it was published in 1990. i know he has a thing for tex/mex southwest US regional cooking.

recipe
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juice of two limes
2 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 cup cilantro
1 medium sized jalapeno seeded and minced
2 cloves garlic finely minced
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2lbs skirt steak or flank steak
2 med sized avocados, peeled and sliced
1 medium sized onion thinly sliced

mix the lime juice, oil, cilantro, jalapeno, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper in a bowl. marinate the steak in this mixture, cover and stick in the fridge for at least 8hrs. remove steak and cook with sliced onions. serve with sliced avocado and warm tortillias, and salsa. supposed to serve 6

well in this house we don't have to serve 6. only my husband will be eating the fajitas. so we'll play around with this recipe and let you know how it goes. amounts will be adjusted, things added and things subtracted.

now the husband doesn't eat mac and cheese, so i needed to do something for his dinner. at the store today i was able to score some cheap meat. god i love cheap meat. i found some ground beef, 500g for £1.25. i think that works out to about a pound of ground beef for $2.35. i took about an inch off the end of the block and cooked that up plain so i could mix it into some veg dishes for my son. i divided the rest of the block in half. one half i set aside for dinner, the other half i divided in half again and froze those two lumps for future use.
dinner would be a quick meatloaf.

slacker loaf
1/2 lb ground beef
1/2 small onion finely diced
1/4 bell pepper, any color finely diced
onion powder, garlic powder, s/p, bbq seasoning

so i mixed up the meat with my chopped veggies. i sprinkled in various seasoning i happen to have in my collection, a bit of onion powder, garlic powder, some mexican flavored salt- it smells smokey, black pepper, and powdered bbq seasoning. once everything was mixed up i put it in a small baking tin and banged it in the oven at 350 for like 30min. basically it's like an oven baked burger. husband ate half with another serving for eating later.
i used half of the ground beef i cooked for my son in some veggie lasagna, i chopped up the lasagna really fine and stirred in the meat. the kid ate it up.