Yesterday I got delivery of a salad and fancy french fries from @bubbakoosburritos and it was good, but I didn’t take a picture. But I’ve of the things I do when I’m ordering delivery is try to get something to make a future meal. Maybe a pasta dish or fried rice that will freeze well for lunches. On this case, I ordered a side of beans and rice.
Another meal I made and didn’t take a picture of was a breakfast of steak and egg. I don’t usually eat this, but I had a thawed steak and had slept late enough on Saturday that I was only going to eat one meal that day. So I sliced the steak into a flat top half and bottom half and pounded the thinner one with some seasoned flour and shallow fried it.
I took the other hall of the steak and sliced it into ribbons and marinated it with Penzey’s Southwest seasoning, corn starch, baking soda, soy sauce, and broth.
And that brings us to tonight!
So I shredded up the last of the lettuce (romaine) in my house and started with that in the bottom of my bowl.
Then I sliced and cooked some button mushrooms. Once they released their liquid and were Browning, I added some sliced onion and jalapeño. Once that was cooked, it went into the salad.
Then I added some oil to the hot skillet and seared the beef strips. Into the salad!
Quickly add some already hot water to the pan (so I wouldn’t warp it) and scrape up the fond, and then I added the beans and rice (breaking up the rice clumps) and let everything heat up and get a little toasty.
While that was cooking, I pulled some quick pickled carrots out of the fridge and added them. Then I kind of scooched all of the lettuce and stuff over to one half of the bowl so that I could fill the other half with the beans and rice.
I also happened to have some zhoug/zhoug/schug (Yemeni chili-based condiment), so I microwaved it enough to take the chill off and poured that on top.
And I added some cheese of course!
So that’s the point at which both pictures were taken (just different perspectives). When I was eating, I also had strained yogurt and tortilla chips