The Saga Continues.

OH NO YOU DON'T!

The van is getting ready to leave and leave the damn trailer in my yard.




Mr. Hawthorne is yelling out the back window to our good neighbor Bob who goes running out to stop the offenders.

The van backed up and they reattached the trailer to it.

Dixie is happy. She thinks she's done her job well.

Mr. Hawthorne finally supported me tonight and came outside and told this fellow he COULD NOT leave the trailer in our yard. The trailer was moved.











Mr. Hawthorne found this flank steak on sale at our regular groshery shtore the other day. He brought it to room temperature and added salt and pepper. Then he heated up olive oil in a cast iron pan and cooked it 3 minutes each side, with a top on, cracked, to allow steam to escape. At the end, he took the steak out and let it set, turned off the heat, and added red wine to the pan to deglaze.







Here's the finished dish. It was tender, rare, and delicious.

Kudos to Mr. Hawthorne.









Previously, I had started Amy Finley's (The Gourmet Next Door) cracked potatoes from her first episode.

Now, I've cooked potatoes every which way and I will certainly cook them this way again. And again. And again.

Thank you, Amy.

Here's the link:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_75394,00.html

I used 6 or 7 cloves of garlic and cooked the potatoes longer than Amy did to get them nice and crisp, turning them often.

WARNING: When getting ready to smash your potatoes with a rolling pin or whatever you have, be sure to check your potatoes for rotten ones. I smashed one potato and it squished everywhere all over the kitchen. I'm still wiping up taters from an hour ago. And rotten taters don't smell real good.