The other night I made a flat iron steak on the stove with a blue cheese sauce for dinner. It was really good. If you are a fan of blue cheese you will love this sauce on a steak or burger. I seasoned the steak with salt and pepper and cooked it in an iron skillet with olive oil on the stove at medium high. I cooked it for about 6 minutes on each side as we like our steak medium. Be sure to not put the steak in the pan until it has warmed up. It will smoke up a bit so have your exhaust fan on and ready.
Blue Cheese Butter Sauce
1 4oz. container of crumbled blue cheese
1 Stick of butter
1/4 cup of Worcestershire sauce
1 clove of garlic
Put all of these ingredients in a saucepan at medium heat and stir until cheese has mostly melted. Pour over a juicy steak or burger and enjoy.
This was Penelope's bento today. It is also my first entry into the Bento Blog Network weekly themed bento contest. This weeks contest theme is Birds.
Granola with chocolate covered raisins, 2 hard boiled eggs, open faced turkey and cheddar bird sandwich on flatbread, mixture of watermelon, honeydew, and cantaloupe, gummy worms.
I am no where near as talanted as some of these bento artists.
Granola with chocolate covered raisins, 2 hard boiled eggs, open faced turkey and cheddar bird sandwich on flatbread, mixture of watermelon, honeydew, and cantaloupe, gummy worms.
I am no where near as talanted as some of these bento artists.
Check out my green onions after just 10 days!
She chose Marigolds, Asters, Onions, and Parsley to plant. We will definitely be visiting the yurt again soon.
And here is the before shot...
Penelope is also getting a green thumb. There is a lady here that owns a yurt and holds workshops and play days for kiddos in the neighborhood and Thursday I took Penelope to the Worms and Seeds workshop. This was her very first time visiting the yurt so we were both a little nervous not knowing what to expect but as soon as we walked in Penelope's nerves quickly vanished. The inside of this yurt is a kids dream. It looks like a mini circus! With mats all over the floor, a trapeze and bars to swing on, a balance beam, tightrope and more. If you ask Penelope what she wants to be when she grows up right now her answer is a mommy, a nurse, and a tightrope walker. Tightrope walker? I don't know where she got this from but in any event she was absolutely delighted when she saw the inside of the yurt. Although she did get to play around with all the fun equipment for a short while she was there for the Worms and Seeds workshop so the majority of her time was spent digging for worms and creating planters out of toilet paper rolls to plant seeds in.
Here is Penelope's lunch for today.
Top tier: Blueberry yogurt with honey granola, kettle chips, baby carrots and ranch in the bear cup for dipping.
Bottom tier: Bear shaped ham and cheese sandwich, mini chocolate Teddy Grahams, red licorice balls in the bear cup.
So I was finally convinced to take a peek at Pinterest and while checking it out I came across this post about growing your own green onions. This peaked my interest because it claimed to be a way to never have to buy green onions again. I use green onions a lot in my cooking and while you people down in the lower 48 can get them pretty cheap (my mom says 4 bunches for a $1.00!) they cost us sometimes up to $3.00 a bunch. What?! Seriously when my mom was visiting last summer she refused to buy green onions at the grocery store because of their price. Anyway, I learned that if you save the bottom white parts of the onions along with the roots once you've used up the green parts, and put them in a glass with a little water they will continue to grow. (I never knew this!)
You gotta keep them in a sunny window which can be a little difficult here at times so I will let you know if I have any luck with this. The prospect of having free green onions whenever I need them sounds nice. So much so that I think I am also going to plant an indoor herb garden with Penelope this summer. Stay tuned for that!
You gotta keep them in a sunny window which can be a little difficult here at times so I will let you know if I have any luck with this. The prospect of having free green onions whenever I need them sounds nice. So much so that I think I am also going to plant an indoor herb garden with Penelope this summer. Stay tuned for that!
The letter of the week at Penelope's school is X. She was very excited about playing the xylophone at school today. She said she tried and tried to play Mary Had a Little Lamb but she couldn't find the notes. She said she just needs to keep practicing.
Top Tier: Chocolate covered strawberry that we made a couple of days ago, pistachios, ranch
Bottom Tier: Baby carrots to dip in her ranch, X and O ham and cheese sandwiches.
Top Tier: Chocolate covered strawberry that we made a couple of days ago, pistachios, ranch
Bottom Tier: Baby carrots to dip in her ranch, X and O ham and cheese sandwiches.
