Tacos de bistec / Beef Tacos with green sauce

By: Karla Vadillo


After Mexico won the match against France during this World Cup, I offered @thewinehub to publish a mexican tacos recipe. Here it is! Hope you all like it, it is a very easy and delicious way of savouring tacos.

Servings: 2

Main ingredients:

500 grms of beef (arrachera, vampire or prime rib)
Corn tortillas (the soft, round ones)
Pinch of salt
Olive oil
One onion chopped in thin slices

Salsa/sauce:
5 green tomatoes
1 avocado
Coriander
¼ of onion
Salt
Serrano chile, the amount varies if you like it hotter or less hot.
All goes into the blender with a very small amount of water or no water -if your blender can handle it- and mix, you can place the core of the avocado in the salsa to avoid browning (just remember to take it out before serving) or use some lemon to prevent quick oxidation.

Steps:

Set a pan on the stove, pour a little olive oil, and place the slices of onion in the pan.

Caramelize the onion (brown & caramel like after some minutes) take the beef and place it on the pan on top of the onions. Let it cook with a pinch of salt on every thin steak.

When the beef is brown, you turn it on the other side.

Note: you can either slice the beef before going into the pan or do it once it is cooked.

When ready -all cooked to the term you prefer- place 2 big tortillas or 3 small ones on a plate. I prefer corn but you can use flour ones even, whole grain ones. Separate the beef into 80-100 grams portions, depending on the size of the tortillas, and place each one on a tortilla.

Pour a bit of sauce on top or set it on a bowl aside for guests to choose how much amount of sauce they want in their tacos. If you and your guests love avocado, avoid it on the sauce and slice it on top of each taco.

Enjoy!!

Jonah Hex: the Comic Book Legend…Brought to the Screen

By Karla Vadillo



In the action-packed adventure thriller “Jonah Hex,” Josh Brolin brings the tough Civil War veteran and bounty hunter to life with a bad-ass attitude and wry humor. A man who has gone to hell and back and has the scars to prove it, Jonah Hex is not a typical hero. In his quest for revenge, he will take down any villain with a price on his head to rid the Earth of all the evil he has witnessed. According to Josh Brolin, the character is an absolute loner from every point of view, tortured, full of rage and guilt. He adds that his journey in this movie is personal: he wants reveange.

Megan Fox ("Transformers", "Jennifer´s Body") plays Lilah, the beautiful yet tough courtesan at a New Orleans brothel who becomes partner in crime of Johan Hex. Lilah joins forces with Jonah to bring down Quentin Turnbull, played by John Malkovich ("Being John Malkovich", "Dangerous Liaisons", "Con Air"), a former colonel in the Confederate army. The motive is clear: Turnbull killed his family so Johan will stop at nothing to see him dead too.



“‘Jonah Hex’ is a classic reveange tale with the future of the union hanging in the balance,” says producer Akiva Goldsman. “Jonah Hex has access to the netherworld. He can talk to the dead and is unstoppable, possibly even unkillable, though Turnbull will try. Jonah is a unique hero.”

“There is a spiritual element that follows Jonah everywhere he travels,” Brolin adds, “and no one really knows how he got that way. What is the truth? What’s not the truth? Half of his whole background is lore.”

The roots of DC Comics’ popular and long-running Jonah Hex comic book series trace back to the 1970s. Originated as a purely Western tough, the character has crossed boundaries and genres that steeped him in elements of the supernatural. It has been enriched while decades pass.


Based on the legendary character from the comic book series from DC Comics, Jonah Hex is an epic action adventure about one man’s personal quest for redemption against the canvas of the battle between good and evil.

The film stars Academy Award® nominee Josh Brolin (“No Country for Old Men”), two-time Academy Award® nominee John Malkovich. Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Will Arnett (“Blades of Glory”) and Aidan Quinn (“Legends of the Fall”).

Released today, I highly recommend this movie for people who love this comic, the story, westerns with a twist and Megan Fox.