My boyfriend loves to joke around with me and will ask in what I call his "ebonics" language, "Yo yo yo! Whaz fo dinna babe?" For tonight, we're having Giniling na Baka or Beef Picadillo. Picadillo is from the Spanish word picar, which means to mince or to chop. Thus, you can deduce that I will be using ground beef. I didn't have to look that up since I took Spanish in high school and I am currently learning Spanish again. I'm on the intermediate level now, yay!
Because he's leaving again for his training in "the middle of nowhere USA," I as a good girlfriend, offered to cook him dinner the night before leaving. I asked him to go through the cookbook that I am using for this project and pick a recipe. I showed him the the page with all the suggested dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner but being a man, lazy and impatient, he took the book from me, opened a couple of random pages, and said, "This one. Okay, what else?" and moved on with the conversation. So I guess we're having beef picadillo which I have made a few times before. I think I will be more creative with this dish since it is a boring dish to me. I expressed my thoughts to the boyfriend but he doesn't care. He said he wants potatoes and beef. Such a typical man to want potatoes and beef but what the hey, I love the guy so I'll make it.
My goal is to spend $10 or less for a dinner for moi, the bf, and the two sisters. Being Filipino, I already have rice and a few other spices in my cupboard so that cuts down on the bill for tonight but this dish is still cheap even if you have to buy the rice and spices. 25 lbs of rice at a local Asian grocery store costs less than $20. Each person eats 1 cup of rice so 25 lbs of rice will last you a very long time. Try a Vietnamese grocery store instead of Japanese store because they offer better value for Asian ingredients. As for the spices, they are very cheap too.
So to the boyfriend out there, I just want to say, "Yo babe! Dinna is beef and potatoes tonight so ya betta eat it. Juz lettin ya kno"
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