I quickly took stock of what I had on hand and I was off to the grocery store where I chose a pork roast to have ground on medium for the Sloppy Joe’s because my grocery store does not carry ground pork only ground pork sausage. I am finding more and more grocery stores are caring all kinds of things they never used to but I still always need some specialty item from somewhere else for a lot of recipes. I was glad to not have to visit more than one store for these recipes. Other than semi irritating my butcher to ground the pork these items are readily available.
Back home and unloading all my goodies, I quickly get the marinate ready for the flank steak it has to rest for 8 hours. I realize I don’t mind cooking dinners by myself on a regular basis but I do miss the witty banter between Tracy and me so I decided to turn on the cooking channel as back round noise. Julia Child’s the French chef is on. So many people have parodied her and as I listen I notice she does have a strange dialect and accent but not as bad as some have portrayed her. So off I went sauté peppers in the oil until soft and then add the beef and pork and the next thing I know I am talking out loud in my best parody of Julia Childs voice about how to break the meat up. Please join me now in your best Julia Child voice and now we add the chopped garlic, stir in the wine, and add the rest of the ingredients… Stir thoroughly… My cat is sitting at my feet looking up at me with her head tilted as if to say “what the hell has gotten into you”. I laughed at myself and that is all that counts.
While the mix cooked I fried up a few onion straws since it was just me and I didn’t need to eat a whole batch of them, though I probably could have. I top the meat on the bun with the onion straws and sat down to enjoy my Sloppy Joe lunch with the cooking channel.
Sloppy Joes with Maui Onion Straw’s pg 134/135
By they way folks the sandwich was very tasty….
After hours of visiting with my friends Giada, Ina, Sunny, Guy, Anne, David, Jamie and Chuck (from the Food Network and Cooking Channel) Yeah that’s right I spent the afternoon watching TV, what wrong with that? You got a problem with that? You got something to say? That’s what I thought. LOL… I needed to get moving and get dinner going. I pulled out the flank steak so that it could come to room temperature and be ready for the grill. Now usually men love to grill, it gets all their manly man things going and grunting like Tom Hanks in Cast Away when finally gets the fire started and he pounds his chest and says I have made fire…. Mixed with a little Tim Allen grunts from Home improvement. But since my husband is at work and I want dinner at a decent hour I will venture out to the grill where I am in NO WAY intimidated by it. We have a charcoal grill because I don’t really like an electric one, I don’t think it gives a good crust to meat so sorry folks I am bad for the environment by using charcoal.
I grilled that meat like a pro all the while I spouting tips about not to move the meat and veg or press on it and get good cross marks only to find a lonely squirrel looking at me from a tree and the neighbors dog is sitting at the end of the drive way with the look on his face like he is saying “Lady is your phone ringing in the house?” Or “don’t you need to go in the house for something?” He was licking his chops. The squirrel was intrigued at me as well probably wondering is this lady talking to me? Anyways the steak, onions, tomatoes and asparagus were all grilled and ready to go so I said goodbye to Skippy, that’s what I named the squirrel and looked for the neighbor’s dog but he ventured away probably because I didn’t get that phone or go in the house so he could steal my steak. As I entered the house my two trusty friends where there to great me Ed and Max, Doodie as she is know to us. They look at me and sniffed the air as to say YUMMM as their heads nodded in agreement and approval to me and each other. Just then Tom has come and we are ready to eat. We devour the steak and veg , the cats eat there Iams cat food, the dog I am sure got his dinner and as Tom and I do the dishes we notice Skippy watching us from a tree outside the window… Poor Skippy…..
Bloody Mary Steak pg 239
Steak was excellent; I will for sure make this one again
Well guys and gals, can’t wait to get back to cooking with Tracy a real person…
See you all soon.
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