For dinner tonight
I made this Picadillo recipe Picadillo goes with beer um oh
you're skipping that let me zoom out for you thank you yeah so Picadillo it's
actually just means mints okay I think yeah this is you know we would have had
this in Mexico Cuba and Costa Rica I ate it in all three places because in
different ways yeah in different ways and it seems that this is something that
all of those Spanish countries that you know Spain colonize they have a version
of this so it's a little bit different in every country oh you've got some root
vegetables carrots potatoes some peas no duh tomato a little bit tomato some hot
pepper and some beer so this is more closely associated with the Mexican
version and here's how I made it first thing I did was in a blender I put a
tomato
couple of jalapenos onion
cumin oregano and the beer and you could also throw in some garlic if you wanted
to that was like your base flavor that's the base flavor mix and I pureed that
until it was smooth and then in this cast-iron pan I browned off the ground
beef okay while that was browning I chopped up a carrot
and a potato
when the beef was browned in with the carrot potato and some frozen peas
okay stir that around cooked it for a little while and then I poured in the
the flavor mix also cook the flavor mixes cook right into the potatoes right
into it brought it up to a boil put a lid on and then I cooked it for about 15
minutes until the potatoes and the carrots were soft took the lid off just
to drive off some of the moisture and this is what we ended up with they've
got that comfort feel like a stew well yeah
it would go really well that rice dish you made the other day the red beans and
rice yeah definitely and you know what as much as I say this is pick a do and
this is something that is in all of the Spanish colonies apparently the Persians
they make in the Philippines is completely different although it has the
ground meat but it is such a comfort food I imagine there's a version of it I
mean my mom could be the filling for a meat pie meat right my mom made
something like this without the jalapenos like you when I was a little
kid so I mean it's it's sort of transcends borders we should take this
and have with the rice instead of just standing here eating it so take a look
for the rice recipe elsewhere on the on the site and this is pure comfort food I
own Stansbury's gonna go with it so let's get a couple of yes dude cool all
right
you