To Beef or not to Beef. That is the Kabob. Huh? Bad joke, sorry guys. Anyhow. Jazmine and I made these beef kabobs. They were pretty tasty, an overall cheap meal with meat, super easy to make, and an even easier clean up (if you don’t attempt Yorkshire Pudding like me … see next post).

First: Cut up some veggies. We choose to use the green peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, and eggplant from Hollygrove Market and Farm.

Cut up some beef. We also got the beef at Hollygrove Market and Farm. It was nice and tender.

We were kinda unsure how to cook it since we were baking it rather than grilling, so we decided to broil it on low. We shoved it all onto the skewers and laid them over a broil-safe casserole dish to catch the drippings.

Trick: It’s best to skewer through as much of the skin of the veggies as you can. The veggie innards get sorta … soft. They may fall off without the support of the skin. Also, don’t squeeze all the pieces together, just kinda until they’re touching. This practice allows for each piece to cook more evenly without the other pieces interfering.

Then we added some Zea Thai Rib Sauce to half of the kabobs. Big mistake on 2 parts. Reason 1: it was almost completely corn syrup. I’m a huge hater when it comes to HFCS (high frutose corn syrup).  We had some Thai Ribs from Zea at a festival that were amazing, and didn’t taste anything like this food-colored corn syrup sauce. Reason 2: well, you can find out in the next entry where I attempted yorkshire pudding.

We put them an inch from the broiler for 10 minutes.

As you can see, the veggies still looked kinda fresh (very apparent in the green peppers). They weren’t quite done yet, so we did another 5 minutes.

Perfect! There some good blackening on the green peppers and some other veggies. The kabobs didn’t even need sauce.

The kabobs fed 2 people. With the drippings I tried to make Yorkshire Pudding … emphasis on tried to make.

In the end, the clean up (again, if u don’t attempt the yorkshire pudding):

• 1 casserole dish
• 1-2 cutting board(s)
• 1 knife

Not bad! Didn’t really need the second cutting board, I just put it on the other cutting board for the picture. I would’ve just put them into the caserole dish.

The ingredients:

• Beef
• Veggies of your choice

Also, add in some dispoable bamboo skewers to the grocery list.

p.s. I’m going to link to the yorkshire pudding entry after it goes up.