Gringo Taco Salad!

Well, tonight I made another DELICIOUS meal!

Tonight's special was a twist on a taco salad that ANYONE can do.

First; start by browning some standard chuck meat (ground beef) in a 10" skillet. Once browned add garlic, onion, jalapeno peppers, chili powder and for that extra kick... cayenne pepper. Once this is all mixed in add a cup of green chili enchilada sauce (you can use canned if you don't have a frozen supply.)

As this is reducing, you want to cut up your favorite salad toppings. I used lettuce, of course, tomato, cheese, and because it is a taco salad of course you have to have a little salsa!

Warning: This recipe isn't for the people who don't like spicy I will tell you that! You can of course skip on the jalapeno peppers chili powder and cayenne peppers.

Once all is done, then place a hand full of tostitos restaurant style chips down and crush them with your hand. Then, on top of that put the ground beef with a little cheese to help it melt. Then create your salad on top! See the pictures below and let me know what you think.

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Salmon & Asparagus With Some Wine

Well, this is my first meal that I am posting!

Tonight's meal consisted of a Lemon Garlic Salmon and Asparagus paired with a fantastic Pinot Grigio.

First, about 3 hours ago I set the salmon filets into a marinade of lemon juice and garlic seasoned with a little pepper (This step is not necessary to do for 3 hours, minimum of 20-30 minutes should do the trick). Once I was ready to cook I heated up 2 skillets. One, super hot, the other just over a medium heat. As soon as I was ready to cook the salmon I melted two (2) table spoons of butter in the super hot skillet, placed the salmon in the melted butter to brown then down immediately to a medium heat. After about two (2) minutes, make sure that the salmon hasn't stuck to the pan. After cooking each fillet on medium for only about 5 minutes on each side they were done! Also, while doing this I prepped the other skillet with EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil), Minced Garlic, Salt, and pepper to taste. Once this was mixed and heated up to medium heat I placed the asparagus into the pan and cooked until they were "flippy" but still crispy!

As soon as everything was done, plating was a breeze! Be sure to wipe the plate off to give it that professional chef presentation! Take a look at the pictures to see if your mouth waters as mine does!

Dakota thought it was good also!

The Working Professionals Recipe Book

Well it is official, this is my first post on my new blog! One side of me knows that this is going to be an adventure, the other is telling me I will have a Julia & Julia moment where I start to hate blogging about food! HAHA

Just some background on myself; I started cooking when I was tall enough to reach the stove! I cooked for my great grandmother and have loved it ever since. My family is Hungarian so it is just a custom to cook and eat and eat and cook! Im starting this blog just to give a different side to... whoever... about cooking after work and to give some different options. Some recipes are original some are stolen from friends and I will be sure to give credit to their owners. The real point of me blogging about food is to start giving working professional people like myself with tight schedules different options for cooking dinner. I know we are custom to just hitting up the local Jack In the Box or Taco Bell on the way home, but dinner should be better than that! A lot of this food you don't have to have a HUGE knowledge of cooking but at least have a desire to learn.

So lets get cookin'