thenextmile

A majority of the food I make has a Mexican flare.  Including tonight’s meal - Grilled Steak tacos with fresh, homemade salsa.

For the steak:

1 lbs Hanger, skirt or flank steak, juice of one lime, cilantro, honey.Mix altogether and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.  Then put the steak on a hot grill.

As for the salsa,  I use a chopped onion, 3-4 chopped green onions, a couple cloves of minced garlic, a couple jalapenos (I use the seeds and membranes because I like it hot), cilantro, fresh tomatoes that have been seeded and chopped, 8oz. tomato sauce, and hot chili powder to taste.  I never used tomato sauce in my salsa until recently when my friend Delon came to visit and made us her version which uses tomato sauce.  Now I use it quite a bit, it makes a big difference.

Steak Tacos:

So, I skipped a bit ahead in marathon training.  My long run for this week is 10 miles, which I figured out this morning that I really need to do tomorrow to make sure I get it in with this hectic week.  So tomorrow, I’ll be up at 5am, running by 6, and then have to come home, shower and get ready for work.  While I was out this morning on a long walk, I am 99% sure that I saw some sort of cat, and I don’t mean a housecat.  Something sprinted across the road about 25 yards in front of me.  It was brownish - black, long and lean, and had a long thin tail.  At first I thought it was a fox, but a fox would most likely have a bushy tail.  It wasn’t a coyote.  It wasn’t a racoon.  And it was in a full out sprint, and it was fast.  I’m most certain it was a cougar.  There have been sightings up here, and I think that’s what I saw one night in our backyard last summer.  Yikes.