Flank Steak Wrap

Well, the first thing I was going to get started on was a sesame onion marinated flank steak

Yum, yum. And then I thought we could slice it up and make lettuce wraps

Love it. All right, so let's come on down here. And what I'd like for you to do is zest one lime for me

And I need the juice of one lime. Yes, ma'am. And while you're doing that, I'm going to chop these onions

and I'm probably, you know, in a marinade, there's no... There's no real measurement

No. You just throw it in there and see how it comes together. Right. So tell me what you've been up to since I saw you last

Well, you know, these wild book tours that I've been on, they've taken me here and there

But you know what I love? No matter where I go, people want to know about food and they want to know about Mimi, my grandmother

They want to know about the family and what I've got growing in my garden. So, honey, I just tell them

All right. Tell me about your Mimi. All right, Mimi is just one of my favorite people in the whole world

As Mimi is supposed to be. Absolutely. Well, Mimi told me that we eat with our eyes first

And so no matter what we do, we've got to make it pretty

Now, I'm going to just put my onion over in here. Yes, ma'am. Then I'm going to measure out five tablespoons of soy sauce. Perfect

Three teaspoons of the rice vinegar. three tablespoons of brown sugar, about a half a teaspoon of red pepper flakes

two teaspoons of the sesame oil, and a tablespoon of garlic. All right, can we whisk that up for you

Please, please. All right. And we are going to take our steak

and we're going to put it in a little baggie. All right And this is just a little flank steak Now you know I grew up on a cattle farm so steak close to home Did you I did in Hawkinsville We even had a buffalo Uh His name Marvin

He would get out, and he'd walk into our swimming pool. All right, so you want to have about half of this in here

About half of it. All right, is that good? That's good. All right, perfect. Because we're going to save the rest of that by dipping sauce

Good stuff. You know, and I like to kind of turn mine, James

Oh, yeah. It's time for our flake steak. All right. I think that it's time to get this

You want to stick that in the sink? Yes. All right. Now, we're probably going to have a lot of smoke here, y'all

because remember, we marinated this in brown sugar. Brown sugar. There's some oil in there

Yeah. Yum. Yum, yum, yum. There's the smoke, I promise you. There it is

I love it. Now, remember, we're going to slice this on the bias

and we're gonna make wonderful lettuce wraps. I'm gonna start putting together

some of our lettuce wraps, y'all. It's pretty. I have carrots. I've got some bean sprouts

I've got some water chestnuts for a crunch. I've got some green onion

That marinade that we had for our flank steak. We reserved some

We reserved half. Perfect. So I use that to just drizzle over our lettuce wraps

This is guarding the table right here. It absolutely is. Look at that

Have one. Have one, my dear. I will have one. Mmm. Mmm

This one is so fresh. I love the soy sauce. And you know, I think if you'd put it on bread, you'd have lost some of that essence

You would have. That lettuce wrap is so fresh and delicious. Yum, thank you