I impulse-bought an overly large steak at Costco. Okay, it was a two-pack of overly large steaks. I grilled them yesterday and ate some for dinner, but had plenty rare grilled steak for a few days of dinner, and tonight, I made Thai beef salad. I had to buy a new bottle of fish sauce because David threw out the old bottle, because “It smelled bad.” Ummm.

In a big bowl, put:
A couple cloves of garlic, finely sliced
A couple shallots, finely sliced
Squeeze the juice of two limes over it, and add two tablespoons of fish sauce and a tablespoon of agave syrup (most recipes call for sugar or brown sugar, but I had this and figured, why not?).

Add a grated carrot or two, a cuke, peeled, seeded and sliced, a couple jalapenos or serranos (red ones are nice for color but I couldn’t find them today) and some celery leaves. Toss all that and let it sit to let the flavors blend and the garlic and shallots to mellow a little.

Slice up your leftover steak or roast beef, as thinly as you can. Toss that in with the other stuff, and add some basil and mint. Or mint and cilantro. Or basil and cilantro. Toss all that to let the juices soak into the meat a little.

Then you can scoop all that over some lettuce. Or rice. i served David’s with rice because, well, he likes rice. Oh yeah. There were a few tomato wedges on there.

Most recipes call for about twice as much fish sauce and also soy sauce, but since I try to keep salt lower for my dining partner, I cut out the soy entirely and halved the fish sauce. I squirted some sriracha onto mine.