Marinted beef strips served in a flour toritilla. Serve with taco cheese, salsa, guacamole and sour cream.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 to 2 lb skirt or flank steak
2 yellow onions sliced 1/2 inch thick
1 green bell pepper seeded and  cut into strips
1 red bell pepper seeded and cut into thin strips
1/3 cup tequila
1/2 lime, juiced
4 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon oregano
1 tablespoon fresh cilantro
Pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Flour tortillas

Directions: 

1.  In a shallow bowl, whisk tequila, lime juice, olive oil, garlic, oregano, cumin, cilantro and red pepper flakes.
2.  Reserve 1/4 cup of the marinade (refrigerate until ready to use)
3.  Add meat to the bowl & rub marinade on all sides.
4.  Cover & refrigerate at least 2 hours. Can marinate overnight.
5.  When you are ready to cook the meat, pre-heat your BBQ.
6.  Grill beef – using the marinade you had set aside to brush onto meat every couple of minutes until beef is done.  (about 9 or 10 minutes for medium rare)
7. If you have room on your grill, as the meat is cooking, place a piece of aluminum foil large enough to cook onions & peppers.
8.  Brush onions & peppers with olive oil and season with a pinch of salt.
     Cook 3 minutes and then turn and cook an additional 3 to 4  minutes or until browned.
9.  Heat flour tortillas in the oven or on the grill.
10. Cut the meat in thin slices.
11.  Mix the meat slices with the onions & peppers.
12.  Serve on flour tortillas with your favorite accomopaniments.

Tips: 
   
Add chopped cilantro to your fajitas
Onions & peppers can be cooked prior to the meat in a pan & kept warm on low heat.
Replace the meat with chicken strips.

Steak Fajita Recipe is a post from: Taste for Cooking

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Tortilla’s have become the 2nd most popular bread type, with sales estimated at $950,400,000 in 2008…wow that’s a lot of tortillas!

Tortilla Facts:

• Mission Foods is one of the leading tortilla producers in the United States.
• Gruma, the parent company of Mission Foods, revolutionized the tortilla-making process by creating Maseca corn flour that allowed for convenient mass production of corn tortillas while preserving their authentic taste.
• All of Mission Foods tortilla plants are kosher.
• The word “tortilla” comes from the Spanish word “torta” which means round cake.
• According to Mayan legend, tortillas were invented by a peasant for his hungry king in ancient times. The first tortillas, which date approximately 10,000 years before Christ, were made of native corn with dried kernel.
• NASA has used flour tortillas on Space shuttle missions since the 1980s. They use tortillas in the place of bread because of the easy clean-up and because the bread crumbs can cause a lot of trouble in space.

Nutritional Information:

• Flour tortillas are a low-fat food and contain iron along with other B vitamins. They have about 115 calories with 2 to 3 grams of fat per serving.(3)
• Corn tortillas are a low-fat, low sodium food and contain calcium, potassium and fiber. An average serving contains about 60 calories and only 1 gram of fat.(4)

For quick, nutritious and versatile meal solutions the entire family can enjoy, log onto www.missionmenus.com.

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Picadillo is a popular beef dish made with a delicious sauce of tomato, pepper, onions, garlic & spices, typically served over white rice with fried or sweet plantains.

Ingredients:

1 pound ground beef
1 large white onion, diced
1 cup green pepper, seeded & diced
1 potato, peeled & diced
6 large garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 /2 cup white cooking wine (Vino Seco)
1/4 cup white vinegar
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
1/2 cup water

In large skillet, saute ground meat, onion, pepper and garlic in large skillet over medium heat with a small amount of oil until meat is browned. Drain fat if necessary.

Add tomato sauce, potatoes, wine, vinegar and remaining ingredients. Cover and cook over medium low for 15 minutes. Uncover and cook for an additional 15 minutes.

Tips:

1. Variation:  Add 1/2 cup raisins
2. Variation:  Add 1/4 cup pimento stuffed olives
3. Variation:  Add 1/4 cup diced pimentos
4. Variation:  Add 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
5.  Leave out the potatoes & use the left overs for empanadas or taco filling

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