What are you having/did you have for dinner? ( Archived) (84)

Real cooking doesn´t really take much more time then packaged food cooking. It´s all about good ingredients and simple preparation.

The meal I cooked today was about 10 min prep and ten minutes cooking. Earlier today I cut my veggies into med. strips and threw them in a ziplock bag with Marinade. Also put the steak in a ziplock with marinade.

Simple marinade is 3 parts acidic to 1 part olive oil and what ever seasonings you like. The acidic is usually vinegar... I prefer balsamic but it can be a mixture... when I cook chicken I like lemon juice, with pork I use orange juice and if you have a tougher cut of meat adding pineapple juice to the marinade helps tenderize it... pineapple juice has an enzyme that breaks down the fibers in meat. And I love garlic so I always put plenty of crushed garlic in my marinade. Then I just throw it in the fridge until I´m ready to cook it.

Get the grill nice and hot put your steak on first, how long it cooks depends on how you like it... I like rare so it´s about 3 to 4 minutes on each side. When your steak is finished remove and cover in aluminium to keep warm and let it rest. If you don´t rest meat before cutting into it all the juices come out, if you let it sit the meat re-absorbes the juices.

You can do this with any kind of meat, chicken, fish, shellfish. The only thing with fish and shellfish is to use opposite proportions of oil and acidic as acid will cook fish and shell fish, and only marinade about 20 min.


Then put your veggies on the grill about 1 to 2 minutes each side, and your done.