Marlboro Man Sandwich

Tonight I tried out a new recipe on my hubby, the Marlboro Man Sandwich found on http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/. (thanks for the suggestion Heather!) I modified mine slightly because my husband is strictly a meat and potatoes kind of man, but he loved it! I baked home made french fries to go with it too. I think this might be one of his new favorites!

The Pioneer Woman's Recipe:
2 Whole Medium Onions, Halved and Sliced
1 1/4 sicck butter
2 lbs cube steak cut into strips
salt
pepper
1/4 cup Whorcestershire sauce
5 dashes Tobasco
4 Deli Roles
8 slices fresh Mozzarella
8 slices tomato
1 1/2 cup Arugula

My Recipe:
1 stick butter
1 Package Cube Steak
salt
pepper
garlic salt
1/4 cup Worcestershire  sauce
Many dashes of hot sauce
Pepper Jack Cheese Slices
Sandwich Rolls

I seasoned the meat with salt and pepper, then melted a glob of butter in the skillet. Once the butter was melted I added the meat. Let it sit on one side for at least 1 minute on high heat then use a spatula to flip it. Add Worcestershire and hot sauce and more butter if needed. Put another glob of butter in a different skillet to toast sliced sandwich rolls. Remove meat from heat, and remove bread when it gets a little crispy. Put the meat on the rolls first and drizzle a spoon full of pan sauce over it. Add pepper jack cheese slices, and add the top piece of bread . Eat while warm and enjoy!

Tater Tot Casserole

At one of my wedding showers last year, a sweet lady gave me a copy of our church cookbook with a list of her family's top 10 favorite recipes. Believe it or not all the years growing up at home and using the very same cookbook I had never even heard of tater tot casserole. I don't even want to think about all of the calories but it has become one of my husband's favorite dishes! According to him it contains the all of the 3 basic food groups: meat, potatoes and cheese!

-Enjoy-

Tater Tot Casserole

2 lbs ground beef                                         

1/2 c. chopped onion

1 can cream of potato soup

1 cab cream of chicken soup

2 cups shredded cheese

1 bag of tater tots

Saute onions in a small amount of oil. Add ground beef: brown, then drain. Pour into large Pyrex dish. Mix soups with 1 can of water, then spread over ground beef. Place grated cheese on top of soup. Add tater tots. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

I modify this by only using 1 lb of ground beef because there is only 2 of us and we can still eat leftovers for a week! Also I only use a little more than half a can of water. If your husband is a meat and potatoes kind of guy he will LOVE this!

On the way to church this morning Jock and I were talking about our friends that we have in our current stage of life. As he was talking about how awesome it is that we all have the same beliefs, and value the same things, it occured to me that this is it! Recently, I dug out my old prayer journal and on multiple pages, my prayer was for friends that believed like we did and that we could openly share our faith with. These friends are exactly who we have, and I didn't even realize that my prayer had been answered. We are exactly where we are at each point in our life for a reason, and this is it!


With some of these friends we had a great time roasting weenies and making smores at our place Saturday night. Fall is my FAVORITE time of year and it is right around the corner!!

Roasting :)

Finished Product YUMMY

And to finish off this exceptionally great weekend I got a new computer desk for FREEEEE :) Thanks to my Uncle Tommy who rescued it from being thrown in the dumpster at his job. Who in their right mind would throw away a perfectly good old school wooden desk?! A little Old English Polish and it was good as new! Its just like what I have always wanted, and I am so glad he thought of me!!

This doesn't look ready for the dumpster to me!



perfect!



Fortcast for Labor Day = Rain and that was perfectly alright with me. Working on my summer tan at this point is a lost cause anyway. With my sweet husband at work, I  FINALLY had some time to work on a few projects!

About a month ago I found a super cute solution  for the very ugly pot light above my garden tub. I found this awesome and seemingly simple idea on http://www.freshlypickedblog.com/2011/03/how-to-make-chandelier.html . How more economical can a project get?!  A sewing machine, wax paper, some kind of circle cutter, an old ratty lamp shade and a few cup hooks are the only materials needed. No one mentioned that this project would take an eternity to complete. I have been cutting out wax paper circles for the past 2 weeks and have blown through 2 boxes of wax paper and had nothing to show for it. Today would be the day that my project transformed from a pile of wax paper into a chandelier... or so I thought! I set about the task of chain piecing all of my circles together, starting with the bottom row... only 18 circles per strand no big deal, right? At the end of the day, 8 hours and 422, yes 422 wax paper circles later I completed the bottom row of my chandelier! ... Only 2 more rows and 90 bajillion more wax paper circles to go!



More detailed instructions will be included when the project is completed!

Enjoy