Steak Salad

Nothing more than your favorite salad.... with the steak (and mushrooms) thrown in instead of on the side.  In this picture the steak was grilled, and the mushrooms cooked in foil on the grill, but pan seared steak and sauteed mushrooms work too.  However you like it :)

I split and grilled a roll to go with it this time and also had some sunflower seeds/nuts :D that I sprinkled on and finally I had some Green Goddess dressing again, it's kinda hard to find these days.

chipped beef with a twist

I had some leftover cornbread that I had added cheddar cheese and bacon to and a craving for something kinda like chipped beef on toast....

so I made some alfredo sauce
then I took a wedge of the cornbread and sliced it in half
laid some pieces of virginia ham sandwich meat on top of the cornbread
ladled the alfredo sauce over that
put a piece of pepper jack cheese on top and microwaved the whole thing til the cheese was melted

it hit the spot lol

Enhanced corn muffins

 

I used a complete corn muffin mix which required only the addition of 1/2 cup milk or water

and instead I added

1/2 jalapeno pepper, chopped
chopped fresh cilantro
~ 1/3 cup shredded mexican cheese
~ 1/3 cup sour cream
~ 1/3 cup milk

and cooked according to package directions which was 15-20 min. at 400 degrees

These were very good.

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Pan Fried Steak with Hot Sauce

 

Add a small amount (1 T) of olive oil to pan and a chopped clove of garlic
pan fry the steak at high heat until perfectly done to your liking or perfectly not done to your liking lol

I used about 1/2 cup of leftover fresh salsa and another 1/2 jalapeno pepper sliced tossed in the hot pan after removing the steak, once this 'stuff' had loosened all the good pan drippings and reduced a little bit I added about 1/2 cup of a slurry to that mixture (slurry - about 1 T flour mixed well with 1/2 cup water), this thickened the sauce nicely and I then added a heaping T of sour cream

Yum

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Cast Iron & What to do with lots of Chicken

This post may be a little bit stranger than my average post and well... we're all strange but strange is relative... lol

ok
Lots of chicken to cook 'whole cut up frozen chicken 4-5 lbs' worth of lots of chicken to cook.

1/2 of it gets browned in a cast iron dutch oven with only 1 T olive oil and a chopped clove of garlic and all the chicken gets salted and peppered as it browns.  Then put the lid on the dutch oven and put it in a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

Looks like this when it comes out


and chicken like this needs rice and gravy




and stir fried veggies


the rest of the chicken went in this pot


and got turned into soup, chicken salad sandwiches, and added to bread pizza

the soup used the leftover rice and stir fried veggies too :)

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pizza sauce

take these ingredients:
can of whole tomatoes, chopped clove garlic, basil, oregano, salt, pepper
and
cook the tomatoes with the garlic and spices until enough liquid cooks out of the tomatoes for it to reach a sauce consistency... I tear the tomatoes apart when I first dump them in the pot, do this by small pieces carefully or you'll squeeze tomato stuff all over yourself... lol

of course if the tomatoes are already diced there is no need to tear them apart...

this time I did something a little different as well...


I used my new magic bullet blender and pureed my pizza sauce... mmmm