Recipe on Accident…

Yesterday I started feeling a bit under the weather… Bummer!! I shouldn’t be too shocked with our new job that requires a lot of contact with the public and dirty filthy money. I must get better at using the anti-bacterial gel!! But alas…for the moment…I have a cold. Yucky Poo Poo!!

Feeling it come on yesterday I threw a couple of steaks and a can of cream of mushroom soup in the crockpot. I figured we’d have tender steaks and gravy for the mashed potatoes I was planning to make with em. The crockpot makes everything so much easier and I was in need of a shortcut for sure!! I turned that baby on low and forgot about it. After a long nap and closing up shop for the day I peaked at the steaks. They were tender alright, so tender they shredded in with the gravy. Really?!?! At first I was upset…no one likes to waste steak of all things!! Chris to the rescue. He sent me to rest with my laptop while he ‘finished’ up dinner. More like fixed my dinner disaster. When he served dinner we both knew we had just created a new recipe completely on accident that was absolutely fabulous!! A La King Steak was born!! I wish I had thought to take a pic of it…foggy thinkin will do that. Chris whipped up the smoothest mashed potatoes ever and topped em with the thoroughly shredded steak mixed with the gravy. Viola!! A La King Steak!! He also made some green beans and a side salad too but the new concoction stole the show.

Next time I think I’ll add some onion and mushrooms to the crockpot but that’s it. It was pretty damn special without a lot of fuss. Perfect for busy days, last-minute quickie dinners and of course those sickie or lazy days!!

I’m off to catch my runny nose… Grrrr!!

With Much Love

Kristy

Sauce and Cake!!

We finally had the much-anticipated and talked about homemade spaghetti sauce last night. Some things are even better after thinking about it for a week or more… TeeHee. It’s tough to get the rig to smell like a taste of Italy instead of a garlic sweat shop!! I toned the garlic content way down (Boo) to avoid everything we own stinkin to the high heavens and us reeking of garlic from every pore. See…there are a few drawbacks to this life…a few… I sautéed up the onions, mushrooms, green peppers and garlic cloves with the lean hamburger and mild italian sausage and seasoned well before added it all to the tomato sauce and crushed tomatoes already simmering in the crock pot. Once combined I brought it to a boil (why is it easier to get stuff to boil in the crockpot than the pot on the burner??) in the crockpot before lowering the temp to simmer for a good 6-7 hours. I must admit I missed the infusion of garlic but it turned out pretty good nonetheless. And I made enough to feed an army!! The crocker was full to the brim…I even thought it might boil over at one point. Now once I get the ice thawed out of the freezer we’ll have some good home cookin to pull from in the freezer!!

On tonight’s agenda is my first attempt at mass production of 3-2-1 cakes for the owner and manager of the park. They were super sweet to let us work on the car here…they didn’t have to do that!! Some mini cakes is the least I can do!! Fresh little cakes go a long way to say Thank You!! I was planning on doing this even before we discovered (last night) that Big Red is going to need some more attention this weekend… Chris doesn’t like that way she’s sounding. I don’t fully understand but I haven’t rode in her since her surgery either. Something may be rubbing wrong or misfiring. Neither option sounds good to me, Chris doesn’t like it at all so he’s grounded her again until he can investigate. He may need to use his phone a friend option again when he’s working on her Thursday but that might prove difficult – trouble shooting over the phone isn’t optimal. Maybe there’s a mechanic in the park that can take a look with him. Another set of eyes never hurt nothin!! If Red can’t be fixed up on Thursday I’m going to have to find a ride to the Wally again. The last thing we wanna do is be a pest…but being out of coffee isn’t an option in our house.

Off to get going on my housewifely duties of the day… I love the simple life!!

With Much Love

Mrs Madcap