60: Steak Fajitas (Food Network Magazine)

I received my first copy of the Food Network Magazine that Viv gave me for my birthday last month. I'd been meaning to try one of the recipes but my mum came to stay and since she cooks such great food I had to take advantage of that as often as possible. Although I am still missing pho and I ate instant noodles every day since she left for an entire week because I'd a) forgotten how to cook, b) decided I really didn't want to clean the dishes, c) I was mourning the loss of my mother and d) I was just stressed. Right now I still don't remember how to cook, still don't want to clean the dishes, still mourning and I'm still stressed. But I decided to cook anyway. Who doesn't love Mexican?

This recipe required beer though. Says the recipe, not me. I left out the beer since I didn't have any in the fridge and I didn't want to receive any strange looks if I bought one can of beer. But since I don't like the taste of beer I don't think I really missed out on anything. The steak was great. A little spicy but mostly tangy from the chimichurri sauce. The recipe says that it takes 1hr and 50 mins, but 1 hr is spent just marinating the meat. I don't think the rest of the preparation took 50 mins.

Unfortunately alot of the recipes in this issue were salads or lunch food. Neither of which I'm fond of making.

I'm pretty excited that two movies I'm really excited to watch are coming out soon. "500 days of summer" is coming out in 2 weeks. And "Julie and Julia" which was initially how this all began. The trailer looks pretty hilarious, as all kitchen disasters are (when they happen to someone else).