STEEMIT CULINARY CHALLENGE # 33: Berry Madnes! Bacon Wrap Tri-tip, ...

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For this week steemit culinary challenge we have to work with berries.

Also if you got them from the wild you have an extra bonus. So once me and my friend Dany went to play disc golf and saw some blackberry bushes we gave ourselves to the duty of collecting some for my food :)

hahaha as you can see for my darkened smile, they are completely edible since I'm here posting this couple days after <3

They were not the ripest berries around but hey all you had to do was to look around :) and we did end up with a lot of berries to eat and bring home for the challenge :D

I was trying to get the ripe ones :)

Anyway back to my food this week menu consisted of:

Beet greens, raspberry, California avocado, Aged White Cheddar with Raspberry Vinaigrette
Bacon Wrapped Tri-tip Steak, Roasted Vegetables with Wild Blackberry Sauce
Blueberry-Bananaberry Spelt Muffins

So here we go:

For the Raspberry vinaigrette we need:

1 cup of raspberries
1tsp coconut sugar (you can use white)
3/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup oil
1 tsp honey

first, we combine the sugar (whichever you choose) we don't use white sugar at all that is why I used coconut sugar and use coconut sugar for most of my sweets. But you can choose any sugar you want, and this is done to break down the raspberries and get the juices into the vinaigrette.

Mix the rest of the ingredients in a jar and shake pretty good until combined.

After couple minutes your berries should look like this and then we are ready to combine the berries and the liquids

shake pretty well and your vinaigrette is ready. This can be stored up to 2 weeks if you have a pretty hair tight container to hold it.

Then you can dress any salad with this marvelous vinaigrette :)

Moving to the main meal:

For this steak we need:

4 ea carrots

1 ea beet

3 slices of bacon

4 pieces of tri-tip

1 Tbs butter

6 oz blackberries

4 oz wine

And our little friends Salt and Pepper

Let's get hands on!

We start with the vegetables since this are hard vegetables they will definitely take longer to soften.Also, we have to make sure we peel them and make them look nice. ;) presentation.

Do not throw away the bigger greens I will use those for my salad, there is no reason to have such waste :) I will use as much as I can out of whatever I have to work with. That is a tio luis rule!

Help your pocket

I actually did blanch my beet for around 10 minutes to make sure it was tender on the inside. Because I wasn't going to roast it for 1 hour I was really hungry :D

after that a quick rub of oil and some salt and pepper and place them in the oven at 350° F

Meanwhile, we rub the steaks with a little salt and pepper, but before hand doing this make sure you trim all the silver skin, thick pieces of fat or other weird things that your steak might have since some stores do not sell them as clean as they could because that will decrease the profit. This will help to make it more tender and soft. This is not the best steak for this but right now it is the perfect steak for my pocket :D hahah

Wrap them with the bacon tightly if you can, I used toothpicks to help the bacon stay in place. You can use any other method you think will help, I was thinking about tying them but toothpick were easier.

Heat up a pan with a little bit of oil to cover the bottom and place the meat.

Sear the top and sides, you can cook the bacon as crispy or tender as you like.

Those are all the trimming pieces I had after cleaning the meat. Dog food, my girlfriend doggies will love it :)

That's me and them watching tv couple months ago.

After searing the meat, we place it in the oven and cook until the desired doneness. I just timed it to the vegetable doneness as well.
You can also place it on a flat surface that will help the bacon crisp on the sides since my girlfriend likes it really crispy.

Just get them out of the oven after doing as you like it. I'd say around 6-8 minutes for mine

Now to the sauce.

We need to decrease the pan aka, get rid of the extra fat and we will rehydrate all those little bits stick to the bottom of the pan because that is a huge source of flavor!

I added the berries to caramelize them a little bit and bring the sweetnes since they were a little tart but you can start with the wine if you have sweet enough berries.

Once some of the juice came out of the berries and it turn sweeter it was time to add the wine, you don't want to wait a long time because we have to reduce the wine as well and burn the alcohol in it. So we stir and reduce to half or as thick as we want it.

We add the butter to make it creamier and richer, and we stir until incorporated.

Time for dessert which I had first once we ate.

For the blue berry banana berry muffins (now that we all know banana is a berry thanks to @woman-onthe-wing :)
we need:

3/4 cup mashed ripe banana (about 2 medium)
1 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
2 cups white spelt flour
6 Tbs coconut sugar or other sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tspbaking soda
1/2 cup walnut chopped
2 cups fresh blueberries

These muffins are simple and easy to make. took literally like 4 steps! (pre-heat oven to 350°)

First we combine dry stuff in a bowl and mix, we do the same with the wet stuff (make sure you smash the bananas if they are not super falling apart ripe)

except coconut oil, blue berries and walnuts.

First we add the coconut oil to the dry ingrediants then we mix it pretty good until incorporated :)

now we mix wet into dry and fold it. I did a gentle fold since you don't wat to beat them a lot this spelt flour is prety delicated and for muffins you don't want to develop that much gluten.

fold in the walnuts and blueberries genlty cuz we don't want to break them a lot and place them on greased muffin pans

and now as a little kid we just see our mouth droll and think on how good those muffins will be because they SMEEL delicious!!!!

All I could do was to watch into the oven door hahaha

we bake for around 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean

Like this one right here.

After that we let out muffins cool down and take them out of the mold.

For my meal I made a bigger version of this cupcake size muffins. It is baking to the left :)

I want to thank our sponsor this week @haphazard-hstead @englishtchrivy and @rouketas for the prizes of this week :D

I would definitely wish there would be more prizes than just a 1st place and a prize bigger than 10 SBD so we can attrack more people and see whole lot of entries but I'm just happy to participate and thankful for you guys and ladies making this possible.

Ha look at this even my wine had some berry notes on it. ;) This is dedication hahaha

and my girlfriend loved it as well.

Although she said she did not want to be in the pictures hahaha :)

I really enjoyed this week challenge :)

Here are some more pictures of my meal

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And this are some pictures taken by my girlfriend hahaha she supports me on this. I kinda notice how she likes when I prepare this weekly meals for her <3 hahaha

And she loves to brag about my meals with everyone she knows that knows me! hahaha lol She even video called her grandparents and show put me on the screen so I could explain to them my meal hahahaha