It’s Friday and so that means we have several reasons to celebrate. We can be happy that the work week is finally coming to an end, for many of us, and we can get excited that it’s time for another installment of my favorite segment on the blog, Cheers to the Weekend. Over the course of this segment I’ve brought you breakfast recipes, appetizers, desserts, and of course cocktails. All perfect for entertaining or just living life on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This time around though I’m bringing you something from my childhood. A dish you can make for your family on a Saturday or Sunday evening. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned on here that my grandparents were from Nicaragua. I didn’t grow up speaking Spanish much or knowing a lot about Nicaragua in general, or my grandparents for that matter, as they passed away before any of my sisters and I were born, but I did grew up eating a few Nicaraguan dishes here and there that my mom would make for us. Although she was born here, she learned a lot of those dishes from her mother and so she made them for us when we were growing up. One of those dishes was this salpicon I’m about to tell you all about. Salpicon is probably a word you don’t hear often, if ever, but it’s a dish you should most definitely become familiar with because it’s super easy to make and incredibly delicious. If you have a food processor, and half an hour to spare, you can make this dish with no effort at all.
It’s basically finely chopped steak mixed with finely chopped bell peppers (red or green, although we eat it exclusively with green bell peppers in my family), onion, lime juice, salt and pepper. That’s it. It’s really not at all fancy and rather inexpensive to make, but it’s out of this world. My family eats it cold from the fridge— almost like a ceviche with the lime juice and salt, although the beef is fully cooked here—served with steamed white rice on the side or on top of it. As a kid, and to this day actually, whenever I eat it, I always end up mixing the salpicon and rice together to form one mixture. Something about that hot rice and cold beef mixed together that makes it a delicious combo. I can go on and on about it, but I still l won’t do it justice. You just have to try it for yourself, so you can understand what I’m talking about. Let’s Cheers to the Weekend with your new favorite dish! A little bit of my childhood straight to your own kitchen!
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