We went to the store today to pick up a few things for dinners & lunches this week. I spent about 40 minutes this morning trying to menu plan for the week and came up with nothing. The hardest part of cooking is what to make right?? I decided I would figure it out when we got there. We shop at Aldi because its a smaller market with fewer choices. I don’t need 10 different types of everything to choose from. We basically only buy some produce, proteins and gluten free items there. When you shop at a farmers market things aren’t available and you just buy what’s in season. That’s another blog post another day. Yes we have to go to big supermarkets to pick up some things you can’t get anywhere else and I hate it. If I had a nice little market in our town like some of our wholesale customers markets own I would shop there daily. Would I spend more no. Would I waste more no. Would everything be fresher yes! Would I be a nicer person….YES!
Minding my own business in the produce area I heard a ripe avocado say “hey you!” I actually turned around and went back to the avocado section. I looked at them skeptical because they are usually hard as rocks and by the time it ripens I forget about it and its bad. Sound familiar?? I wasn’t looking for an avocado or ingredient for a Mexican meal, but I picked up one that looked perfect, looked around to see if anyone was looking and gave it a gentle squeeze. A tiny one. It was perfect. I still wasn’t sure what was going with it until we got to the meat section. I chose a package of country style boneless beef ribs that were $2.89 a pound. Everything else in the beef area was considerably more expensive.
Cuts of meat like these boneless beef ribs along with chuck roast, bottom round, rump roast etc are not pieces of meat you can come home and slap on the grill. If not cooked long, low, slow or under pressure they will be tough AF. I decided I would make Barbacoa Beef for tacos. I got out my pressure cooker and started my dinner. The meat was done in 23 minutes! I made my crunchy turmeric cumin rice, cut up some toppings for the tacos and called it dinner. As soon as I figure out how to share recipes I use I will add the link and eventually there will be a recipe section. That is in the near future. Today Marty figured out how to let people subscribe and comment!!!! This was a big deal after trying to figure this WordPress out.
When you go into a store shop like a chef does, let the ingredients speak to you and be ready to listen…the rest will fall into place.
Looks delicious! Do you make your own tacos?
I have, but definitely not on a Monday night! 😂 Good reminder for me to get out my tortilla press. I miss flour tortillas so much since we went gluten free in 2010 and haven’t made corn ones forever!! A 2021 project will be buy masa flour and have at it!! Thanks so much for reading!!
Yum!!! I think I’ll go out and buy a pressure cooker! Look forward to seeing the recipe for this one. 🙂
It was delicious
Spontaneous meals can be wonderful! I used to use a program called “Master Cook” because it would calculate nutrition values for me. I think it’s still available and might be able to send files to Word Press. I got the last version I used through Amazon as download only. It also came pre-loaded with a bunch of cookbooks for inspiration.
I”m looking forward to the recipes. I really like your blog so far. Congrats!