Tri-Tip turned Burritos

Damon apparently showed his co-workers my cooking blog. I now feel the pressure to be entertaining. Crap. =X Hi Sonal! :)

Yesterday I was talking about how hard it is for me to use up leftovers. We seriously toss out TONS of food from week to week because there's j/too much of it to eat. My coworker asked me why I don't just serve it again, but I told her I get bored easily. Take that tri-tip I made on Monday. It's been sitting in the fridge because I don't want to microwave it and serve it again. Damon took some of it in a sandwich on Tuesday and there's still a huge hunk left. She told me to just change it up -- serve it with a different side dish, throw it in another main dish, whatever. She says she always uses her meat to do tacos, fajitas, flautas, whatever, and a roast will last her to Wednesday. Genius, I say!

I had put some leftover chicken drumsticks that I had frozen to defrost yesterday -- I was planning on trying out a recipe for chicken karaage (Japanese style fried chicken). But when I came home today (an entire hour late), I found that it was supposed to have marinated for 5 hours. Oops. So here it was, 5:50, Damon's going to be coming home in 10 minutes and I had nothing to make for dinner. But then I remember my conversation with said co-worker. After rummaging through the pantry and the fridge I came up with dinner:

Tri-tip burritos with Spanish rice! And it took all of 10 minutes:

- I cut up the leftover tri-tip and heated it in a skillet for about 10 minutes with some paprika and cuming to make it more burrito-like.
- Damon chopped lettuce
- heated a can of beans
- made the spanish rice
- took cheese and salsa out of the fridge



Super low-budget, entirely unhealthy and not at all gourmet. But hey, it's food!

Note to self: I should've added some chopped onions to the meat to really pick up the flavor of the paprika and cumin. The meat didn't absorb the flavor as much since it was already cooked.