Category: Recipes

Two Meals in One

Every freakin night dinner comes around.  This night was no different.

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Our plans were to have steak, mushrooms, buckwheat and smoked cauliflower.  The more we can cook in the Traeger, the cooler the house stays.  Especially in the summer!

The Man marinated the flap steak for about half an hour with *some really yummy tasting stuff.  You can marinate over night, but we’re never that organized.

 

 

 

 

 

While the steak marinated, I washed the mushrooms and The Man cut and sauteed them with oil, salt and pepper.  We’re such a good team.

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Making Spaghetti Sauce

I think that a sign of a successful adult is the ability to make your own spaghetti sauce.  Okay, maybe not the biggest sign, but it’s on the list.  Anyone can open a jar of sauce, pour it into a dish and heat it up in the microwave.  Or if you’re feeling extra fancy, you can put it in a pot on the stove.  But you make your own spaghetti sauce and you are a superstar.

How do you make your own spaghetti sauce?  Not to worry, I got your back.  This recipe was invented by my dear Mother-in-law, Ann.  And then I tweaked it a tiny bit.  Just to make it my own.  But mostly because there were a few icky things in it.  Here are the ingredients, the directions will follow.

Here’s my attempt at my first video.

CAUTION: There are levels of awkwardness in this video that have never been seen before.  The Boy has PTSD from having to watch it repeatedly while editing it.  Watch at your own risk…..

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BBQ Chicken in the Crock Pot

I usually start trying to decide what to make for dinner when The Man texts me at 4:00 pm asking what’s for dinner.  But grown-ups aren’t supposed to do that so I’m working on it.

The other day, we had two extra kids.  They’re old neighbors from Oregon and they were at our house for a week.  If you ask anyone, I am a Dino Nugget connoisseur, so the extra kids assumed we would be having those all week.  I’m a little stubborn, so I had to make sure we had other food.  Don’t get me wrong, we had chicken nuggets in the shape of dinosaurs, but not every day.            I mean, look at them, they’re delicious.

 

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Smoking Ribs on the Traeger

Clearly I gave our baby a bath before the picture, but I think a well-loved grill should be dirty!

We made plans to have some wonderful people over for dinner on a Friday night.  Their favorite meal; ribs.  Smoked ribs on the Traeger!  It’s one of my favorites, too.  I start making plans to buy ribs, prepare the rub and let The Man do his thing.  Only when I realized that Friday was a day that The Man actually works and that I would have to be doing it all myself, did I wonder why I hadn’t planned it for Saturday.    But I didn’t, so I guess I had to learn how to smoke ribs on the Traeger.  It’s a good thing I am in the mood to learn how to adult.

Step one- Ask The Man to write down exactly how to do it.  I mean, exactly.

Step two- Tell myself that I am a grown-ass human that will indeed be able to figure it out.  And if not, we can order pizza.

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