Fun Diego Family loves to cook and share recipes. Many recipes highlight some of our favorite cooking tools like sous vide, Big Green Egg and Instant Pot.
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Birria is a Mexican dish that can be hard to find in U.S. restaurants. However, beef birria has a rich history in Tijuana and it is growing increasingly popular across the border in San Diego. This is an Instant Pot beef birria recipe. Go To Recipe Apparently birria originated in the Mexican state of Jalisco. …
At Fun Diego Family we try and eat grass-fed beef whenever possible. Unfortunately, this can get quite expensive. For the past two years, we have helped control our budget through a monthly subscription to Butcher Box. This is our Butcher Box Review. Overview UPDATE: We were informed that during COVID-19 there was a waiting list…
We are always looking to add vegetables to our meals. This Instant Pot Quinoa with Sausage and Kale is a complete one pot meal. It can be prepared in just a few minutes at a very low cost. Go To Recipe My son loves quinoa and so I have been learning how to add it…
Store bought ground beef is convenient. However, for not much more cost and effort you can grind your own beef. If you like hamburgers cooked to medium or less, you should definitely look into do-it-yourself ground beef. From that point you can upgrade to a dedicated meat grinder and look at expanding into sausage-making. Why…
There is this restaurant in San Diego that lets you add all kinds of items into your hamburger. This gave me the idea to create custom burgers where everyone can pick what they want to add. This is my recipe for build your own stuffed burgers. Go To Recipe The restaurant in San Diego where…
Our family loves experimenting with hot peppers. Habanero peppers are a favorite, but they can be overwhelming. This recipe calls for soaking the peppers in alcohol and cooking with the sous vide method. This sous vide habanero chicken is full of flavor but has a reasonable level of spice. Go To Recipe The inspiration for…
As our children have gotten older, they have come to appreciate spicy food. Habanero peppers have a great flavor but can be extremely hot. I learned a method for taming the heat of habanero peppers by soaking in alcohol. This recipe not only tames the peppers but it makes a habanero vodka. We have done…
Beef Stew is a family favorite. For 2020 our goal is to incorporate more grains such as barley in quinoa in our meals. We started the New Year with a Beef Barley Stew. This is a recipe perfectly suited for cooking in the Instant Pot. The entire stew can come together in little over an…
When preparing a prime rib roast, we remove the bones before cooking. Instead of throwing the bones away we use them to make a wonderful beef broth. This is our guide to making homemade beef broth. Go To Recipe For Christmas, our traditional meal is prime rib roast. When making prime rib I follow the…
Our traditional Christmas family dinner is a prime rib roast. Over the years I have experimented with multiple ways to cook prime rib. For Christmas 2019 I decided to cook the prime rib two ways: sous vide and a traditional oven method. When estimating how big a roast you need the general rule of thumb…