My quest is finally at an end, and happily for me my quest has finally met with some success. My mother bought me one of Rick Bayless' cookbooks because I had been wanting to develop my Mexican cooking repertoire. Unfortunately for me a huge number of Rick's recipes call for hanger steak, something which seems to be unknown, even at several good butcher shops. I was told time and time again by the many butchers behind the counters that I should use Flank Steak but I persevered because the good Mr. Bayless said that flank steak would just not do.
Finally today I contacted a butcher on Granville Island in Vancouver who told me he had skirt steak, my spirits lifted as I remembered Rick's book Fiesta at Rick's said that skirt steak was a great subsitute.
My meat is on order and I pick it up this Saturday, hurrah!
This same butcher got me out of a bind once previously as well when I was looking for veal bones.
Check him out at Armando's
I'm going to try and make Rick's recipe for a fajita like concoction wrapped in lettuce instead of corn tortillas. I'm doubly excited about this because I love meats wrapped in lettuce wraps, mostly from my experiences dining on delicious Korean BBQ, and also because it is going to be nice and lo cal.
Cheers for now
K
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