Picadillo!

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Guys Picadillo (peek-a-dee-oh) is a Latin American comfort food of hamburger with tomato and other things in it spooned atop rice. I made this version last week:

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Guys this was one of the best recipes I've ever made. Super easy and super easy cleanup. Amazing taste. Just thought I'd share you should try this it's a real winner!!

-Jay
 
If you like that dish, take it one step further and use it as an ingredient in the delicious Puerto Rican Lasagna called Piñón.
 
I thought you were saying, “peccadillo!”

Was gonna come back with “innuendo!,“ as my snappy retort, but then saw your recipe.

(That looks pretty good, JF. Thanks!)

Nope! Just got out of the virtual doghouse (I was suspended from the forum) for using a naughty word so wouldn't use one again! :)
 
Guys Picadillo (peek-a-dee-oh) is a Latin American comfort food of hamburger with tomato and other things in it spooned atop rice. I made this version last week:

Picadillo - How to Make a Beef Picadillo Recipe - YouTube

Guys this was one of the best recipes I've ever made. Super easy and super easy cleanup. Amazing taste. Just thought I'd share you should try this it's a real winner!!

-Jay

Darn, that looks good!
 
If you like that dish, take it one step further and use it as an ingredient in the delicious Puerto Rican Lasagna called Piñón.


Why? Has it got pine nuts in it? Where do you get those?

The only cooking shows I watch are Devon Windsor's vlogs on YouTube. But I may really try her recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Sure, I watch because she's among my favorite Victoria's Secret models, but she is a great hostess, whether she's cooking or going to Barcelona or showing her boyfriend catching marlin off of the Dominican Republic.


I have to say, that picadillo meal looks right good. All it lacks is Devon telling how to make it. I think I'd rather learn to cook this than that sweet potato gnocchi stuff she made. But watch that video, because the squash she made would go equally well with this picadillo dish. Yes, really. Or use zucchini squash and a good tomato-based sauce. Put more meat in the picadillo thingee and you'd have a really decent meal. Well, it has enough meat. Just would prefer a larger serving.

This leaves me hungry. I think I'll head for the kitchen and cook some broccoli, instant brown rice, and salmon. I just pour Wishbone Italian dressing on the salmon. I'm too lazy to make sauces. I just buy those like Ragu or Classico that come ready in a jar. There are several varieties. I like those with mushrooms and green peppers.

Jay, are you still in remote Central America, with the Air Force? I think I recall you posting recently about that. Do they use refried pinto beans much there, or is it all black beans, that far south?
 
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Picadillo is delicious. Everyone's recipe is a little different, but they are all tasty.
I use canned diced tomatoes, various spices - usually cumin, paprika, and ground or chopped chiles, onion, garlic, black pepper, sometimes red pepper, salt, and whatever else strikes my fancy at the time. I'm not a fan of raisins or olives, so I leave those out.

Only one problem - always eat too much of it.
 
Why? Has it got pine nuts in it? Where do you get those?

The only cooking shows I watch are Devon Windsor's vlogs on YouTube. But I may really try her recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Sure, I watch because she's among my favorite Victoria's Secret models, but she is a great hostess, whether she's cooking or going to Barcelona or showing her boyfriend catching marlin off of the Dominican Republic.


I have to say, that picadillo meal looks right good. All it lacks is Devon telling how to make it. I think I'd rather learn to cook this than that sweet potato gnocchi stuff she made. But watch that video, because the squash she made would go equally well with this picadillo dish. Yes, really. Or use zucchini squash and a good tomato-based sauce. Put more meat in the picadillo thingee and you'd have a really decent meal. Well, it has enough meat. Just would prefer a larger serving.

This leaves me hungry. I think I'll head for the kitchen and cook some broccoli, instant brown rice, and salmon. I just pour Wishbone Italian dressing on the salmon. I'm too lazy to make sauces. I just buy those like Ragu or Classico that come ready in a jar. There are several varieties. I like those with mushrooms and green peppers.

Jay, are you still in remote Central America, with the Air Force? I think I recall you posting recently about that. Do they use refried pinto beans much there, or is it all black beans, that far south?

I'm back on American soil. :)

They used white rice with seasoned pinto beans or lentils poured on top. Yucca (tastes like a cross between potato and carrots) was also a common side. I was in Panama and they had great food and I also got to better the community while I was there. A win win! :D
 
I should have been more specific. The dish is more accurately a sweet plantain casserole with the Picadillo as a layer, that is assembled much like a lasagna.

Plantain Pi~n'on Recipe - QueRicaVida.com

That looks really good! They had plantains in Panama too. They tasted like a tart unripe banana with some starchiness in there, I really enjoyed them!!
 
That looks really good! They had plantains in Panama too. They tasted like a tart unripe banana with some starchiness in there, I really enjoyed them!!

The Plantain has a split personality. When green and firm, they fry up crisp and starchy, and make a great snack with a Mojo sauce.

Let them ripen, and they fry up soft and sweet. Great alone as a side dish, or as a layer in the Puerto Rican Lasagna. :)
 
When I lived in Key West, we had picadillo and used yellow rice....had Cuban bread with it. We still eat picadillo and yellow rice a lot..about three times per month. Es muy Bueno!
 
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