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Many friends that I enjoy cooking for, sometimes ask why the food tastes so good. Is it the meat?
Or where do you get your ingredients?

Well let me share a little secret.

It's spicing the food, folks?

There are other things that will effect food other than salt and pepper.
Why is it that people are so afraid to toss some spices on their food?

Oh.....tooo spicy?

What's too spicy?

Spice it to your liking......figure out what you like and enjoy something besides unseasoned bland food.

Here is a little very simple seasoning that I use about 50% of the time. You can add or subtract to the basic mix depending on your liking. But at least try......eh? Will ya?

Dry Adobo rub

In a heavy 12 inch skillet toss in 3 Tablespoons of Cumin Seeds and on medium flame, heat until they start releasing their aroma. Keep the skillet moving so that they do not burn......Burn Bad!
As soon as you start smelling the aroma, about another 30 seconds more and that is about done. Take off the heat and let cool for a few minutes.
In a container, ( I use a zip lock bag for this) toss in the following:

4TBS of garlic powder
4 TBs of onion powder
1 TBS salt
1 TBS fresh ground pepper
1 TBS red chili pepper flakes.

\Now that the seeds have cooled, either grind them in your spice grinder, You do have a spice grinder don't you? or toss them in a molcajete and grind down to a fine power.

Toss into the bag and shake or mix well until thoroughly mixed.

This dry rub works great on pork, chicken, beef steaks, fish and almost anything you can thing of.....


Here is an easy beef steak recipe.
You can use pretty much any cut of steak that you like.

Take two steaks, run about 1 Tbs of the rub thoroughly on each steak, put into a shallow glass dish.
Squeeze the juice of a few limes on the steaks, then add about 1 cup of cider vinegar to the dish, after about 15 minutes turn the steaks so that the other side is in the liquid.

After 30 minutes remove, dry and toss on the grill and cook to your liking. After you remove from the grill remember to let the meat rest for at least 4 minutes otherwise the juice will flow out of the meat as soon as you cut into it.

Enjoy!