Ribeye fajitas on my Weber kettle

As the price of flank and skirt steak has reached or exceeded $6/lb here, it's close enough to some other steak cuts that I'm willing to pay a couple bucks more a pound to try something else. Today I tried using some angus ribeyes from Sam's Club.

I whipped up a fajita marinade and soaked both steaks (first time I've ever marinaded a ribeye) as well as the veggies in gallon bags for about 8 hours. While the food was marinating, I went and brewed some beer. Oh yeah....and it snowed today, all day long. Between the brewing and the grilling I "enjoyed" the beautiful spring weather for about 5 hours today. :crazy:

When I got home I fired up the Weber kettle with a chimney of lump charcoal, brought the grill up to about 500*, and placed the ribeyes on the grill indirect for 5 or 6 minutes. Then I gave them about 2 minutes direct per side and pulled them off. It's been a long time since I grilled steaks on my kettle and I got them just a tad more done than I'd want them as whole steaks...however I think a medium doneness works well for fajitas.

Once the steaks were off I put on the marinaded veggies and some onions we picked up from the Mexican market. Some flour tortillas, sour cream, and colby jack cheese later, we had some pretty tasty fajitas for dinner. I think I'd use ribeye for fajitas again, though I think a nice thick tomahawk ribeye might fit the bill better next time. :thumb:

I wish I could've had a nice cold beer included in my plated pic, but I'm low carbing to try and drop a few pounds. In fact that's my wife's plate, I skipped the tortillas but had everything else.

Believe it or not, that's actually a salsa my mother in law made, though it does indeed have avocados in it :thumb:

And you're right about the tequila, definitely missed the boat on that one.

Kanco Connection said:

Solid work, S&S! Way to power through the weather

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From the time I started the grill to the time I pulled the veggies off, we probably accumulated another inch or two. Not gonna let some confused Missouri weather tell me when I can brew and grill.

TravelingJ said:

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I don't know if you have tried any of the low carb tortillas. For meals like this we just eat one that's loaded up, and then after that just filling. Makes it feel less like a diet.

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I have eaten those before, though I've never used keto strips to verify it doesn't pull me out of ketosis so I just passed on them this time. I'll have to try that out sometime and take some "measurements".