Recipe of Week/Name that Food

Recipe of the Week

Fajitas

2 pounds ground beef, lamb, or chicken breast cut into strips, about 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch thick

6 tbslp. extra virgin olive oil

1/2 cup lemon or lime juice

1/4 cup pineapple juice (optional)

4 garlic cloves, peeled and mashed

1/2 tsp. chile powder

1 tsp. dried oregano

1/2 tsp. dried thyme

1 red pepper, seeded and cut into strips

1 green pepper, seeded and cut into strips

2 medium onions, thinly sliced

about 1/2 cup olive oil

12 whole wheat tortillas

6 tblsp. melted butter

Make a mixture of olive oil, lemon or lime juice, pineapple juice and spices and mix well with the meat. Marinate for several hours. Remove with a slotted spoon to paper towels and pat dry. Meanwhile, mix veges in marinade. Using a heavy skillet, saute' the meat, a batch at a time, in several tblsps. olive oil, adding more oil as necessary. Use a slotted spoon to transfer batches to a heated platter and keep warm in the oven while completing preparations. Saute' veges in batches in additional olive oil and strew over meat. Meanwhile, heat tortillas briefly in a heavy cast-iron skillet and brush with melted butter. Serve meat mixture with tortillas and garnishes.

Garnishes:

creme fraiche

guacamole

salsa (recipe follows)

"Chismole" or salsa

4 large ripe tomatoes, diced

1 medium onion, finely chopped

juice of 2 lemons

1 bunch cilantro, chopped

1 tsp. dried oregano

Mix all ingredients. Cover and let stand at least 1 hour before serving.

Name that Food

Answer from last week's name that food: Slim Fast (Chocolate Royal Flavor)

Can you guess what this is? Skim milk, water, sugar, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, modified food starch, salt, sodium stearoyl, lactylate, artificial flavor, color added (including FD&C yellow #5)

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"The discovery of the first vitamins, in the early 1900s, began the era of modern interest in diet and nutrition. Pioneering chemists found that certain "unknown substances" in food were essential to life. The study of vitamins has not waned since the early days of research, and the subject of food science has proved to be far more complex than scientists at first imagined. The early discoveries led some researchers to conclude that all vitamins necessary to life could be supplied in their isolated factory-produced form as vitamin pills. We now know that vitamins do not exist as single components but as parts of a complex of compounds, each part contributing to the whole. Most vitamins produce optimum results in the presence of certain naturally occurring "cofactors," such as trace minerals, enzymes and coenzymes, as well as other vitamins. Well-informed nutritionists have come to recognize the futility of providing all factors necessary to life in pill form. While supplementing the diet with certain isolated vitamins has proven temporarily beneficial for many disease conditions, the best source of vitamins for most of us in the long term is properly prepared whole foods."

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Tomorrow, we'll discuss the best ways to obtain vitamins A, B Complex, C, D, E, K, and P, also called the bioflavonoids. It's NOT by taking your multi-vitamin!