Clareified

Gather round kids: Here’s a tale from our good friend Astin, who lives in the Mexico of the North:

I’m easily distracted.
This can be a problem when preparing dinner.
Like last night.
I decided I’d pull out a steak for dinner. The thing about deciding this at 6pm is that it needs to thaw somehow. On goes the oven, out comes the cast iron and foil. So, with the steak thawing in a warm oven, I pushed back the unit and got to work. Cables hooked up, testing commenced. Hmm… that isn’t working. Try something else. That works. But why not the other? Back to the other… still not working. Figure it out and stick with the second option. But now the remote needs to be reprogrammed. And while I’m doing that, there’s those other things I wanted to fix on it. Wasn’t I doing something else?
SHIT! Steak! 2 hours later!
Waste of a nice piece of meat… sigh.
So comes together a marinade. Vinegar, horseradish, dijon and smokey mustard, ketchup, hot sauce, honey, worcestershire, sundried tomato + hemp pesto, oil. Steak gets sliced and dumped in. Inside is still red at least.

So to recap, Astin’s “wasted” meat is prepared with homemade marinade.

In Dawn Summers’ America, wasted meat has burned to a paste of charcoal at the bottom of her one good pan as the neighbor is reassured that calling the fire department is unnecessary.

Oh, and also, in North Mexico, remote controls are evidently plugged in.

I want to go to there.

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