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Sol Cerveza Fajitas

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Sol Cervesa Fajitas in the skillet

This recipe comes from the mind of my girlfriend. She’s brilliant in the kitchen and 1/3rd the reason that I have the shape I do.

Our Sol Cerveza Fajitas are a great addition to the end of your hard day at work or for having some friends over for a barbeque. These fajitas taste lightly of Sol and are simply delicious. Great to fill up on and wash down with the remaining beers!

This recipe makes enough for two large Fajitas each leaving enough for lunch the next day.

Ingredients:

1 large grilling steak whole if grilling on the BBQ cut in to ½ cm strips if roasting in the oven.
1/2 sweet onion sliced
2 Cloves of minced garlic
1/2-1 tsp Red Chili Flakes
1/2 tsp of Salt
1/2 tsp of Pepper
Juice of 2 limes
3/4 of a bottle of Sol Cerveza
1 Jalapeño Pepper
1/2 Green Pepper
1/2 Red Pepper
1/2 Yellow Pepper

  • Put the steak, onion, garlic chili flakes, salt, pepper and lime juice in to a Ziploc bag and fill with beer. Remove all the air from the bag and mush it all around to cover and place in a bowl in the fridge (incase of leakage) for 1/2 hour to 3 hours. Add a small amount of lime or lime juice to the remaining beer and pass to the closest Thirsty Mate.
  • Pre heat your grill or if using an oven a cast iron skillet to 500 degrees and let the skillet heat up for at least 20 minutes.
  • If your skillet is large enough or you’re using the barbeque you can combine the next two steps. Add a pinch of salt to the skillet and one tsp of olive or vegetable oil for lubrication add the peppers and return to the oven for 5min or until cooked but not soft. If using the barbeque grill to the same perfection then set aside.
  • Add the steak to the skillet once it’s had a chance to heat back up in the oven and roast till med rare (or well done if you’re crazy)
  • Add peppers to skillet and toss. Return to oven till all is nice and hot and ready to serve.

Serve on large tortillas with cheese, sour cream, salsa and the remainders of the six pack of Sol Cerveza. Don’t forget to add any remaining lime to the beers!

Hint: Cut your slices of lime thin enough to slip back out of the bottle when you’re done your beer so that it’s less messy at the beer store and they won’t attract any fruit flies in a few days time.

Sol beer is clear and pours with little to no head. Although is best enjoyed outside from the bottle with a slice of lime. Coming form a brewery near Mexico City called “El Salto Del Agua” (the water fall). During it’s conception the German brew master noticed that a ray of sunshine fell in to the brewing pot and the name was born. In the beginning it was marketed to the working class because it was much more refreshing than the traditionally heavy European style beers available at the time.

Guinness is moving

Friday, May 9th, 2008

guinness is good for youDiagio (the makers of Guinness) have reported that they’ll be closing down two factories in Kilkenny and Dundalk.

Don’t worry your heads though Guinness fans they’ll be opening a larger facility worth and estimated whopping 520 million pounds! That’s somewhere around 1 BILLION USD! Drinkers of the black stuff in England and Ireland won’t have to worry about different water polluting the taste of their beer though. They’ll still be getting their brew from the historic St. James Gate brewery, although the workforce there will be cut by half.

The St. James location has been in operation 1759 when Arther Guinness started brewing his first stout next to the River Liffey.

David Gosnell, Diageo’s global supply director, told a Dublin news conference that the company even thought about closing the St. James Gate production facility but after public outcry decided that it meant too much to Guinness fans.

The closings and new plant aren’t supposed to be fully finalized until 2013 so the picky drinkers who believe different waters make different beers need not worry too much about the subtleties of their stout changing any time soon.

What?

Friday, May 9th, 2008

This picture (recently posted on The fail blog) brings up some questions to me.

  1. Are these kids learning from seeing their parents and if so
  2. How much do their parents drink in front of them? OR
  3. What kind of parent sets up such a photo if it’s NOT learned behavior?

Babies Drinking

After those questions briefly pass through my head I laugh.

Facebook = Popularity

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

With the popularity of facebook and the ability for people, corporations and brands to spread the word through the world here’s some links to some facebook groups and fan pages:

These are just a few of the groups out there. If you have some fav’s that aren’t on the list why not leave them in the comments section?

It’s Official!

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Beer Rings

Molson has announced that they have been chosen as the official supplier of beer of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games!

I feel sorry for the athletes in from Europe (and even Canada) when all they’ll be able to crack open after stepping up to the podium (if we let them that is) is a Molson Canadian.

In a deal worth between $3 and $15 million dollars Molson is securing it’s place as an official supporter along with the official diamond, bakery and heating insulation.

Multimillion dollar deals like this help take fundraising pressure off of the federal and provincial governments and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (also known as VANOC).

It’s good to see the major labels contributing to our country’s tourism and the Olympic spirit.