Bistec a la Parrilla con Lima y Chile

Circle the calendar, folks! It’s Monday night and guess what?? I COOKED DINNER! While yes, camp was just as tiring as it always is, I had prepared ahead and made sure that we had enough ingredients in the house to make multiple meals this week. Granted, one of the meals this week is “just” going to be pasta with sauce, but tonight, I had a major desire to grill out. The beautiful weather helped, thats for sure!

Tonight, I made (in case you couldn’t translate the title) Grilled steak with lime and chile. I’m a HUGE fan of the chili-lime combo, and I’ve even made a chile-lime pork tenderloin but this one had a bit of a different technique. The main difference was the fresh lime juice (limes were $0.05 a piece!) and chopped garlic instead of crushed. So, here’s my recipe for:

Bistec a la Parrilla con Lima y Chile

Ingredients  

• 1 1.5 lb. flank steak, trimmed
• juice of 5 fresh limes
• zest of one lime
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 Tbsp. chili powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/8 tsp. crushed red pepper

Directions

Combine all ingredients except the steak in a shallow pan or ziplock bag. Score the steak against the grain about 5 times on each side, then add the meat to the marinade. Allow to marinate at least 30 minutes up to 3 hours. Grill on a hot grill until cooked to your liking, though for flank steak, medium to medium-well is perfect. Slice against the grain, and serve with fresh corn tortillas.

I made some grilled red peppers to go with this delicious steak, and ate strips of peppers with the steak wrapped up in the warm tortillas. Seriously a great meal! This meat would’ve been great by itself, but these tortillas we got yesterday really made the meal. There may or may not have been was also a McD’s hot fudge sundae as dessert… it was cold, fudgy, and just what I was craving!

Now, meet our new friend, won today at Safari Land to keep us company. His name is Mr. Monkey. Say hello, Mr. Monkey!

Mr. Monkey took about 30 rounds of the game “Smokin’ Token” to win (which, has a total double entendre for its name that I JUST got… did you get it?) He kept me company on the bus ride home, and is now happily living on our sofa. Mr. Monkey, just so you know, has a “big face” and “floppy tail” and was hugged by each and every camper on their way out today. (note to self, Lysol Mr. Monkey.)

Tomorrow, dinner will take a bit of a trans-Atlantic flight to Italy… bet you can’t wait!

Camper quote convo of the day: Camper 1: “Mara, I know we just eated lunch, but can we get pizza? And cotton candy? And soda?” Camper 2: “No, silly, we don’t have enough tokens to buy that stuff! Lets just play games.” Camper 1: “Ok!”

Mara Out.

Tagged as: beef, camp, grilling, simple recipe