The Recipe There are a lot of recipes for chimichurri sauce on the internet. The one I chose seemed to have the same ingredients as the majority of the recipes I found so I assumed it was a good average of them all. A properly grilled steak is always good and the steak here was fine. My husband and I found the chimichurri sauce to be too vinegary to play well with the steak but didn't hate it. We had sliced fresh tomatoes with our steaks and found that putting chimichurri sauce over the tomatoes was incredibly delicious. We ended up eating a lot of chimichurri tomatoes over the next few days! Would I make this again? Yes, but with less vinegar.

Pork Chops with Bananas and Bacon Recipe This is where I hit my first real challenge in finding something to make. A lot of the recipes I found online called for okra and sweet potatoes and, well, I dislike both of those things intensely. Also, because these are islands, they have access to fresher fish and a wider variety of seafood than I do here in a remote rural desert town. I didn't feel that what I could get my hands on locally would do their seafood recipes justice so it took me awhile to find something with good ingredients I could get locally and would not require me to make substitutions to make it palatable to me. Anyway, the pork chops were delicious. The bananas wrapped in bacon were not for me. I like bananas but I'm particular about textures and the texture the bananas took on after being grilled was too mushy for me. Before the texture issue hit me, the flavor was okay, but not good enough to overcome the mushy texture. Would I make it again? I'll probably make the pork chops again but I will not make the bacon-wrapped bananas again.

Trinxat Recipe This one felt like a familiar comfort food with potatoes, cabbage, and bacon and it was very good. It was also very easy for me to acquire all of the ingredients locally, which is a plus. It didn't stand out as anything new or exotic but it was a pleasant and filling meal. Would I make it again? I'm not sure. It's taste profile is so similar to other things that I make that I'd probably just do my own thing instead. There's nothing wrong with Trinxat, it's just not really anything new to me. But it's good!