I am so honoured to be the first guest post here at Peace, Love, Recipes. Thank you so much Courtney for the invitation to be a part of your wonderful blog! My name is Dawn and I write a blog called Addicted to Recipes. I have been collecting recipes for as long as I can remember, and have a cupboard full of cookbooks and a big binder full of clipped recipes. I have always loved to bake, and have a huge sweet tooth (cookies are my weakness!) but now that I’m all grown up with a family of my own, I can’t feed them baking all the time! I was getting tired of the same old meals every week, so in January, I made the resolution to try one new recipe each week so that I could start to expand our family’s meal repertoire. I started writing my blog at the same time, to highlight my adventures trying the new recipes. I have been having a great time writing my blog, and my family has certainly been rewarded with some fantastic meals! It’s certainly a juggle, being a mother to two boys (ages 5 and 9 months), a wife, a blogger, and so much more. I often wonder how I will “do it all” when I return to my full-time job this summer!
Recently , my Mother-In-Law shared with me one of her favourite recipes, which I prepared for my family and I am so excited to share it with you. Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
Steak & Marinade
1 lb steak, ¾ inch (2 cm) thick
2 tablespoons fish or soy sauce (I used fish sauce)
2 tablespoons lime or lemon juice (I used half of each)
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon ground ginger (I grated some fresh ginger)
Mango Pepper Salad
1 mango
1 sweet red pepper
½ cup sliced sweet onion (I used a purple onion)
1 tablespoon fresh cilantro, chopped
1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice (I used half of each)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Couple dashes of hot pepper sauce (I used Frank’s)
Instructions
- Steak & Marinade In a small bowl, mix the fish sauce, lime/lemon juice, ketchup, oil and ginger. Place steak in a shallow dish. Pour the marinade over the steak, and turn to coat. Let stand for 10 minutes, then turn and coat again.
- Start your BBQ. Once heated and ready, grill steak over medium-high, reserving the marinade. Close the lid and cook, turning and brushing halfway through. Cook steak to desired doneness. Remove from grill and rest, tented with foil, on a cutting board or plate for 5 minutes. Thinly carve the steak against the grain.
- Mango Pepper Salad Peel and pit the mango. Core and seed the red pepper. Slice the mango and red pepper into matchstick sized pieces. Place in a salad bowl, along with the onion and cilantro. In a small bowl, mix together the lime/lemon juice, oil and hot sauce, spoon over the salad and stir gently. Divide salad into portions onto plates. Place carved steak on top the salad and serve immediately.
Notes
Source: Canadian Living, June 1999
VERDICT:
This is a very pretty meal…and such a TASTY meal. I can see why it is one of Kim’s favourites! It was our first time having it, and it is one that I will absolutely make again. It was so fresh tasting and so summery (even though we made it in the spring!). The marinade sat just long enough on the steak to seep in and it truly was a “hint of thai” but the flavours were right there for us to enjoy. The onion, pepper and mango mix in the salad was so good too, as was cilantro (love!) and the light dressing on top.
