Good food must be shared.

Firstly, here's an amazing dish that I've already shared, but that deserves to be here.

It's the Peruvian delight that is Lomo Saltado:





INGREDIENTS:

Marinade
beef (cut the ones made for steak kabobs in half for bite-sized pieces)
soy sauce (enough to cover meat)
cumin (use your nose to figure out how much to use)
garlic (simply crushed with back of knife)
Goes in the stove
a good sized yellow onion
2-4 ripe tomatoes (cut into wedges like apple slices)
bunch of cilantro
frozen french fries (not the shoestring, I'd go with steak fries or similar)
extra virgin olive oil (to throw onto the fries while baking)
cooking oil
salt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS:

1. In a handy gallon-size bag, combine the meat, soy sauce, cumin, and garlic. Then, put it in the fridge. That's pretty much all you have to do for 3-5 hours. I'm not completely sure about timing, some amount of time more than an hour but less than overnight will do.

2. About a half hour before you're ready to cook, I'd take the meat out to bring it down to room temperature and start prepping the vegetables. Cut the onions into healthy slivers, the tomatoes into wedges, and the cilantro into finely chopped pieces. Put it all aside.

3. At some point, preheat the oven according to the fries package instructions. Place them on a baking sheet. In addition, add some EVOO and garlic salt to the fries and stick them in the oven that way. Don't forget about them, though!

4. Now combine some oil and garlic in a heated pan. Before the garlic burns, add the meat medallions. Don't turn them too much but make sure to cook them thoroughly. Once they're done, set them aside in a bowl to add toward the very end.

5. Next come the onions to cook in the same pan. Add some salt and garlic if you'd like. I can't remember, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt. Don't worry about cooking them all the way because they will keep cooking along with the rest of the ingredients.

6. Everything else, you don't really have to worry about cooking. Add the meat back in. Then come the tomatoes--they don't really need to be cooked, just heated. You can also add some more soy sauce and cumin to the mix. At the very end, you can add the fries. Turn off the heat and add the cilantro to finish. (Sorry if this part is kind of thrown together. I also always forget these little details up to when I actually start cooking!)

7. Last but not least, make sure to serve this hot and nice and with rice! And it wouldn't hurt to add a healthy dose of butter and cilantro to the rice! It's absolutely divine.