We’ve been on a try-new-things-for-dinner kick this week, as you may have ascertained. Last night we made Grilled Asian Flank Steak with Sweet Slaw. We served it with soba noodles.
We used two jalapeños from the freezer and I think we can now say our pepper plants were really pissed off last year. I’ve heard that the more hardship a pepper plant faces, the hotter the pepper. Our plants must have suffered mightily and became just short of hellfire.
The slaw was sweet but our peppers sort of overwhelmed the slaw. Not that I wouldn’t make this dish again, oh hell yes I’d make this again. I’ll just use one pepper instead of two. Or hope that our plants this year don’t feel so enraged.
Update: The better-half went out to meet some friends tonight so I had this dish minus the soba noodles for dinner tonight. I didn’t heat anything up, just took it out of the refrigerator, transfered it to a plate, cracked open a beer and dug in. The pepper didn’t catch up to me until the very end…their heat had definitely mellowed overnight. The second time around was quite tasty.