One of my family's favorite dishes - the boys are super excited when this is on the menu. I use my trusted pressure cooker to soften the meat up real quick. You can stew the meat in a regular pot till the meat is tender. This is my version of the popular soup dish.

2 beef shank with the bone - about 5 pounds total. The bone and marrow adds a lot of flavor
1/2 medium onion
4 carrots - peeled and sliced into 1 inch pieces
1/2 cabbage
2 potatoes - peeled and sliced into 2 inch pieces
3 celery stalks - peeled and sliced into 2 inch pieces
handful of spinach
1 tsp black peppercorns
1 tbsp fish sauce

brown the meat in your pot, add onions and celery and peppercorns. Add enough water to cover the meat once the onions are translucent, add the fish sauce and turn the temperature up to high. If using a pressure cooker - follow the instructions and once it begins to whistle, turn down temperature to medium and keep it on for 1t minutes. If you're using a pot - bring the pot to a boil then turn down to medium and simmer until meat is tender.

After the meat is tender, add the cabbage, potatoes and carrots. Once the cabbage are translucent, add the spinach.

I made this dish tonight and I realized I was out of celery so there's no celery in there, I accidentally added green beans but that's ok too. I opted to use ground black pepper as my kids don't like to accidentally eat the peppercorns. I usually serve mine with fish sauce, lemon and spicy peppers on the side. Don't forget the rice!!

It's the beginning of the week and it's going to be a great week. :)

I went a little over today and I'm ok with that. I strive to prepare home cooked dinners at least 5 times a week. Most of the time I end up doing 4 because we end up eating out on Friday nights too. I make up for it by preparing dinner at home on Sundays. I grew up eating dinner at home most nights and only went out when it was our parent's pay day. My dad's choice would be Chinese and my mom is a little more adventurous. We enjoyed any opportunity we had to try something new. Food is like a time machine for me, it brings me back to my childhood.

I made red rice tonight. It should go with Baked or Fried Chicken. That's how I grew up. It was served weekly at any of the schools that I went to on Guam.

1/4 medium onion - dice
2 tablespoons oil - I use EVOO
3 cups of uncooked rice
6 cups of water
1 packet of Annato Powder
salt to taste

Add EVOO to warm pot, saute onions for a few minutes then add rice and stir
Add water and Annato powder
Bring to boil then turn down to low and keep covered, stir occasionally to keep rice from sticking to the bottom of the pot




Skill - Find Max Weight for the following complex
Power Clean
Thruster
Front Squat
Push Jerk

made it to 95#
I realized that I'm fearful of triple digits

WOD
10 min AMRAP
6 KB Swings (3 left and 3 right)
12 Ab Mat situps
24 airsquats
Completed 3 + 28