Birthday Steak on August 4
I made a grilled flank steak that was given to me for my birthday by some very good friends of mine. The meat was grass-fed and from the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon CA and was very nice. Anyway, I marinated it all day in a Korean soy and sesame marinade. I grilled some green onions and leeks, sauteed some shitake/maitake mushrooms and served it with grilled corn and soba noodles. We had to have corn, even though it didn’t quite fit the menu because it was the first from the farmer’s market……it was yellow and pretty good. I tried to add an Asian influence to it, but it didn’t quite work……
We drank an bottle of Trivento Malbec 2005
Who We Are
Sunburned and full!
My husband, Bruce, and I live on the beautiful Oregon Coast. We are passionate home cooks and make dinner from scratch almost every night of the week. We shop the farmer’s market, buy as much from local producers as we can, and support the organic, sustainable, and Slow Food movements. We believe that knowing where your food comes from, cooking from scratch, eating well, in season, and together at the table are all part of living healthy. You won’t find many foods from the middles aisles of the grocery store in our house!! This blog is an account of our home-cooked meals for the year 2008 (and now 2009). The way it works is I prepare the main entree’ (I usually don’t follow a recipe–I like to think of recipes as reference and use them to generate ideas) while Bruce usually makes a salad to match. We eat the salad after we eat the main entree’. We learned to eat that way when we visited Italy and prefer it now. We always have a bottle of wine with dinner, so we’ve documented it as well. We don’t go by what’s best with white or red, we just drink what we like. This project started in December 2007 when there were many discussions regarding the frequency in which favorite dishes were made. We determined that the best way to know how often we ate pasta with Bolognese sauce (or anything else) was to document it. We have been doing just that in a journal since January 1, 2008. I then decided that it would be better to put it on a blog; not for public attention, but for easier storage management and transferability of the data. If you happen to stumble across this blog and find it interesting, or would like to know how we made something, let me know–I am happy to share.
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