Chimichurri steak

After indulging all weekend at a family wedding in Louisiana, felt the need to whip up some detoxing salsas to help flush our bodies!

Chimichurri is a great detoxer because it's full of cilantro and parsley, both great green detoxers. 

With that in mind, I decided to make one of my favorite dishes lately.

Chimichurri steak.

For the chimichurri sauce-

I put the following in a blender

1 bunch of cilantro 

1 bunch of Italian parsley

1/2 red onion

4 garlic 

Juice of one lemon

Salt

Pepper

Olive oil

Red wine vinegar

 

Blend it up

Taste and adjust seasonings if need be

Refrigerate 

Use it on everything... I'm gonna try and eat as much of it this week as I can. 

I'll too it on my steak tonight, then you can use it over eggs in the am, salad dressing or just dip with fresh veggies...

For my steak, I used a flank steak

 

Marinated it  

Worsteshire, pick a pepper, salt, garlic powder, lemon pepper and red pepper.

Let it marinate in the fridge until I was ready to grill.

Let it get the chill out for about 30 mins prior to grilling.

Grill

 

Then for this dish, I like to slice it, top with sliced avocado, grilled green onions (I grilled with my steak) and then top it with my chimichurri sauce!

 

 Yummmmoooo!!!

With this, I made some pinto beans and rice for my girls and corn on the cob!

For me, I like it just like this! So good!!

Burnt Roast

If you make one recipe of mine, I would make this. If you ask my kids what's their favorite meal, it is roast, rice and gravy. It was one of my favorites growing up and pretty much a Crawford classic. 

Start by rinsing the roast and putting it in a baking dish. I like grass fed beef, rump roast or top of the round. My mom always taught me to pick one with a nice big hump.

 

Then I stuff the roast with garlic cloves. 

Take a pairing knife, make a hole, stuff it with the garlic clove. 

 

Then I chop onions and carrots and add them around the roast. 

 

You can also add chopped potatoes if you would like too.

After you have all your vegetables all around, it's time to season it all. 

I season the vegetables and the roast with worsteshire, kitchen bouquet, salt, garlic powder, lemon pepper and red peppers. Rub it all in. 

Then you want to add some water, about halfway up your vegetables. This will create the natural gravy. 

 

(Making the videos on Instagram, I always forget to take pics!)

Bake at 350 for 3 hrs!

Roast will have a burnt look on the top! That's when you know it's done! When you slice it, it should fall apart. Slice roast over rice, top with the vegetables and gravy! 

 

Yum! 

This is also easy to eat low carb

 

Just no rice....

I will say most of the time, I don't miss rice all that much....but this is the one meal that I do miss it!!

Mama's Favorite

We all have our favorite dishes that our momma cooked. I remember whenever momma picked us up from school and we got home, we would always go to the stove to see what she was cooking for supper. Sometimes, she would say we're having Christina's favorite tonight and it would be this dish-

 

Beef and Lima Bean Stew

I know, what child loves lima beans? Me?

 

So to start, I sauteed onion, carrots and bellpeppers in olive oil.

 

Then I sliced up a flank steak I had in the freezer. You would preferrably use lean stew meat but flank steak is what I had in the freezer and needed to use. Remember the best advice...use what you got!

Season with salt, garlic powder, lemon pepper, red pepper, oregano and basil.

Stir and make sure the meat has browned all the way through.

Then I added some yellow and red cherry tomatoes (optional, I had them and they needed to be used)

Let those cook and smash with the back of the cooking spoon.

Then I added the jar of this jar of tomatoes.

Season again.

Let the sauce cook for a while on medium heat and let the sauce come together, about 30 mins.

Then add lima beans. (If you use dry beans, you will need to soak them over night in baking soda and water)

I used 3/4 of this back of frozen lima beans.

 

Then let that cook for a good hour.

Taste and reseason if you need.

Then add fresh oregano and basil if you have it.

Serve over rice.

 

My girls love this just like I do. Jerry is a fan too!