Friday Night Dinner!

This Friday we had an exceptional dinner that included fried potatoes, ratatouille, and dupe steak. Mom and I worked together to get it put together - I helped with the Ratatouille and Steak.

Steak

To start with, we had two kinds of steak. Yak and beef. Last night everybody seemed to think the beef was a lot better. The beef was real tender (most of it).

Recipe:

1/4 a cup soy sauce

3/4 a cup of oil

1Garlic Powder

2 Tbsp honey

1 1/2 tsp ginger (ground up).

2 scallions, chopped (green onions)

......

Flank Steak

Mix the sauce together. Defrost the steak sliced diagonally. Place steak in a container or bag and pour sauce over it. Shake the bag so that the steak is well covered in the sauce. Place in the fridge and soak all day. (Put the bag in another container so it does not get all over!)

Grill until done to your liking.

Roast Potatoes

Preheat Oven to 400 degrees F.

Recipe:

7 potatoes, cut into 1/8

Salt

Pepper

Oil

1 1/2 tsp. Rosemary

1 1/2 tsp. Basil

3/4 tsp. Garlic Powder

Directions:

Mix salt, pepper, oil, and other ingredients into a bowl with potatoes. Pour into a large glass baking dish and bake till your liking.

Ratatouille

(I did not take this photo)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

(We got this recipe from Allrecipes.com)

Recipe:

3 Tbsp olive oil

4 1/2 cloves of garlic

1 Tbsp dried parsley

1-2 eggplants (cut into 1/2 inch cubes and salt to your taste)

1- 1/2 cups o

3-5 zucchini, sliced

1-1/2 large onions, sliced into rings

3 cups of fresh, sliced mushrooms

1-1/2red or green bell peppers, sliced

3 large tomatoes, chooped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat bottom and sides of a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish with 1 tablespoon olive oil.

Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Saute garlic until lightly browned. Mix in parsley and eggplant. Saute until eggplant is soft, about 10 minutes. Season with salt to taste.

Spread eggplant mixture evenly across bottom of prepared casserole dish.

Sprinkle with a few tablespoons of Parmesan cheese. Spread zucchini in an even layer over top. Lightly salt and sprinkle with a little more cheese. Continue layering in this fashion, with onion, mushrooms, bell pepper, and tomatoes, covering each layer with a sprinkling of salt and cheese.

Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes

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Chocolate Chip Cookies (Homemade Style)

Working as a volunteer TnT Girls Leader for AWANA can have a couple weird things.... Like Pie Night. And when you really do not want to get a pie of whipped cream in your face, you can always try bribing. I did. And I succeeded... with one girl (I still got a pie, though, from her older sister) And so I ended up making a bunch of cookies for all the girls anyways, as it is towards the end of the year.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Makes over 30 cookies.

Supplies:

Blender

Mixer

Cookie Sheet

Butter, Choc. Chips (or Carob Chips), Sugar (Brown and White), Eggs, Oats, Salt, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, White Flour, and Vanilla.

Thanks Denimcowgirl... for the reminder. Preheat the oven to 375 and cook for 6-7 minutes. It normally takes mine about 10 though, but that might be altitude.

2 Cups of Butter. (About one whole package and defrosted.)

2 Cups of White Sugar

2 Cups of Brown Sugar

.......Mix

4 Eggs

2 Tsp. of Vanilla

3 Cups of Ground Oats

.....Mix

5 Cups of Flour

1 Tsp. Salt

2 Teasp. of Baking Powder

2 Teasp. of Baking Soda

.....Mix

If wanted, add as many Choc. Chips (or Carob Chips) as preferred.

Whats Been Going On :)

WE have been moderately busy with our lives on this end of the Rockies!

To start with, we sold our house up here and are planning (LORD WILLING) on moving towards the foothills (East) to a rental. I plan, LORD willing, to post some pictures of the home and its remodeling... which we plan to get done!

The house is a, I think, 1970's home that just needs a little updating. It is a nice four bed room home, with a dining room, family room, and living room (3 baths.) I would like, we hope, to get my room done cowboy fashion with my sisters and I's bunkbeds (My sister plans to get married and move out this spring). If she comes back to stay it might be fun to share rooms again for a couple of weeks. My saddle, saddle rack, bridle rack, and cowboy hat (not including my riding gloves or new boots) should make a nice cowboy look to the room... I also have some stencils, Breyer Horse Models, and some pictures of my horses with me. My sister and I would like LORD willing, to go shopping Thursday a pick out some stuff.

The house will still need some work. Cupboards in the kitchen are not very nice will have to work for the moment. The kitchen over all has a very classy floor, and a great stove!!!!! The backyard has about a half an acre ( a lot for town). It has some neat rock formations on it and is fenced. The front yard is classically nice! The remaining bedrooms need some touch ups and new curtains and drapes. Me and my sister like it a lot!

Well... I plan, if possible, to take some pictures and post them (of the house._

Enjoy!

~Western Belle