Hello everyone!
I’m kind of lazy these days. Going out for lunch with my wife, and trying to learn how to drive (Yeah! I don’t have my driving lesson, yet…but we are working on it), but I cooked some stuff this week, I will try to post it here.
So, this week everything that I cooked was like, as we say here in Brazil “no olhometro” it’s when you don’t have stablished measurements. It’s just adjust to your taste. Easy and fast stuff.
As I said before I’m having driving lessons, and man…that is hard! I never wanted to drive, so I didn’t care to take my license, but now is kind of necessity, specially because public transport is becoming a real mess here in Rio (to go to work it can take 45 min of my day or 2 hours and a half, depending on the traffic stuck). So I need a car, but before I have to take my license.
Every day early in the morning I have those lessons…yeah I’m waking up early in my precious vacation. Ah! Just for curiosity, here in Brazil the majority of cars are manual, in the last few years that automatic cars stated to get popular, but it is still a rich people “toy”.
So I cooked something really fast, a steak with vegetable. So let’s stop talking and go to the recipe. It’s a “Keep it simple” recipe. There’s no exact measures, it’s all about your preference, your taste. A good beef just need salt and pepper, nothing more!
New York Strip Steak
Ingredients:
– New York Strip steak
– Olive oil
– Salt and black pepper
Instructions:
1 – If you want to take off any excess of fat or anything in the steak, that’s the time.
2 – Season the steak with salt and black pepper, both sides. Sprinkle olive oil (just the sufficient to rub the steak) over the steak, then rub it in the steak spreading the seasonings and the olive oil all over it.
2 – In a hot grilling pan, grill it until the way you like it (I always eat anything well done, I’m the guy who always care about safety. Raw beef? No, thanks!)
3- Let it just rest for a couple of minutes and serve it.
Medley of roasted vegetables
Ingredients:
– 2 large potatoes
– 1 carrot
– 1 small broccoli
– Rosemary
– Thyme
– Black pepper
– Salt
– Olive oil
Instructions:
1 – Wash, clean the vegetables and peel the carrot and potatoes (sometimes I don’t peel the potatoes)
2 – Cut all the vegetables in smaller parts, as in the photo. Put everything in a roasting pan.
3 – Mix the thyme, rosemary, salt and pepper.
4 – Sprinkle a little bit of olive oil over it, just to coat the vegetables.
5 – Cover with a foil and bake it in medium heat for about 20-30 min (IT will depends of your oven) or until fully cooked. Remove the foil and let it brown on high heat.
6 – Let it cool for a couple of minutes and serve.
So guys that was one of my vacation lunches, for me and my wife, this week, easy, simples that’s my philosophy nowadays: “KEEP IT SIMPLE!”
That’s all folks! See u later! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
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