Meal # 24 Green Olive and Onion Sauced Steaks with Wild Mushroom Noodles

As I was planning this meal it did not bother me at all that I was preparing a Mediterrean dish with a Chinese side dish. It does get under my skin now talking about it. I must have broken a sacred cooking rule. Anyways neither where exceptional. The noodles with all different kinds of mushrooms where...mushroomy. I also while preparing this dish, didn't cut off the stems so they basically turned to rubber and I couldn't even CUT them off when it was chow time. I am mushroom ignorant and I guess I just learned lesson #1. The steak with green olives would have been so much better if I hadn't dumped so much hot sauce in it. I mean, you can't enjoy any food with your snot running into it. I didn't really eat mine and my poor husband's face was red for about an hour. I guess the main lesson I am learning is that sometimes, sometimes, you don't have to measure. But sometimes you do. How will I learn when I can and cannot dump things in? Rachel Ray makes it seem all to easy with her "twice around the pan" nonsense.

Nevermind Rachel... I take it back. You are awesome.

Tiff

Meal # 22 Onion Pork Chops with Corn and Potato

I got a new cookbook the other day. Rachel Ray's 2, 4, 6, or 8 people recipes. Very cool. I chose a recipe from it today and enjoyed following her recipe directions. It's like, a little of this and a eyeball of that, mix, chop or whatever floats your boat kinda recipe. I invited Suzette over for Bible study and dinner and I think she liked the meat and corn stuff but not crazy about the onions. I however, loved the onion sauce, because I love onions. Sauteed onions with a little butter and salt are one of my favorite thing, it's not everyone's though. But this is a food challenge, people, if I am not challenging you out of your food box, who will? Speaking of food boxes, my whole life I have hated mushrooms. They always taste like dirt and rubber. I cooked them (because they are on my list 30 times! Amanda!) the other day in butter, and loved them. I was so surprised to see my taste-buds changing in this experience. So we ate and picked corn out of our teeth and enjoyed good food. What can be better than that?
Stats:

Gabriel- 4
Tiff -4
Suz - she didn't vote but I bet she would say 3 because of the onions

I can't help it! I love onions!

Tiffions