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http://www.budgetbytes.com

found a great recipe for fajitas there, and i'm about to go grocery shopping. i'm pretty sure the fajitas will be good.

awesome site rain, bookmarked

Oh man, fajitas. Steak ones or chicken ones, no best pick on that, it's a hard choice. A fajita cooking thing, learned over time: Grocery store beef or chicken will not brown. Water comes out and makes in stew and turn gray. The way around it is to get your skillet damn hot first with a little sizzling oil, then throw your marinated strips of tastiness in. Sear them up one side, then the other. Don't mix them up and accidentally turn it into a stir-fry. Roast/toast them up just Tex-Mex right. If you want to avoid the oil, you can get a slotted skillet that drains the water off.

Or find an ethnic grocery that has hunks of meat that might be dubious, but probably aren't injected with supermarket water weight. (Pools of water do not naturally flow from butchered mammal muscles. Please believe me-- I spent my high school days working live cattle in central Texas). If you want to go the market foraging route, you can find some good stuff. That's where you exercise your eye of the eagle and your fine sense of discernment. Also, your sense of smell.

But-- Before you started cooking up that good marinated meat, you have to get all of your sour cream, guac, salsa, lettuce and tomatoes cut and laid out how you like them. And, you're heating up and laThings are about to come out perfectly cooked and hot and ready to eat. Now is not the time for chopping lettuce and tomatoes.

While you're cooking up that fajita meat, be warming up your flour tortillas on medium heat. When the upside is showing some good bubbles and inflation, flip it over and let it do another puff up. Keep feeding them on, and putting them on a plate, covered by another one, to keep them warm and moist.

Hoo-wee, that's some good eating! If you're going to go to all that trouble, might as well invite a friend over to help out and grub wich you.

Thanks Khergit. I was planning to put it all in a tupperware and save it for later, for meee :-D

the injected meat thing explains a lot.

Will have to go home and lock this one in my computer. Challenge to come up with meals for the family after a while and this looks like a great resource.

Thanks for sharing, Rain!

Not to be rude but oven cooked fajitas..... NO!

Fajitas are best when you pan fry your meat, if grilling isn't something you can manage for a quick meal. Pre-marinate like you would for a BBQ. Keep a tiny bit of pink for best results. After the meat is done you can dry-warm your tortillas in the same pan.

The veggies are better grilled but you can work them lightly on a separate pan.


Fixins should be prepurchased if it's just you, or made from scratch for a group of people.

Well some some of those those certainly aren't cheap here in the north were only apples grow (barely I might add and the damn pear died on cold a few winters ago) but I'll give those a try.