16.275 Mom’s Salsa Beef

Cycle 16 – Item 275

POST 5,754

7 (Tue) October 2025

Mom’s Salsa Beef

2.0

by me

at home

-Changgok, Sujeong, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea-

with IZ

For the first time in making this dish, I added cheese – slices of muenster blitzed in the food processor to approximate queso fresco.

Probably formulated to be served as a free dip with tortilla chips at beer pubs.

Alas the salsa wasn’t up to par.  Produced by Peacock, a food line from E-Mart.  Way too sweet, otherwise flavorless.  Did my best to Mexicanize it – e.g., with pickled jalapeños, chipotle sauce, ground cumin, etc. – but still fell short.

W and IZ will eat the grapes when they return from Busan on Sunday.

More important, with tonight’s dish – the culmination of careful meal planning over the past couple weeks – I managed to use up all ingredients in the fridge that would go bad over the next couple weeks, as I will be leaving the day after tomorrow for a scuba diving trip to Indonesia, returning on October 21.  More details to come.

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