Meal # 39 Steak with Mashed Cauliflower

A friend of mine went on a health kick and it really affected me. We could never swipe a dessert on the way to a movie or grab a doughnut at church. I was afraid her healthy kick would end our friendship. Now, in motivation to save our relationship I asked her what I could cook for her so that I could make her dinner. She said a 6 ounce steak and a vegetable would be great. So I choose cauliflower and marinated the steak in soy sauce. I then wanted to mash the cauliflower but without butter or milk it was...very hard to say the least. I looked like I had just took a knife and stabbed it a couple of times. However, my friend was super grateful and loved the meal so I guess that it was matters. The steak was good and I almost always struggle to get it to be tender. Here is a piece of advice. If you plan to get healthy, go away to some foreign place to do it.

Tiff

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