Steak and Onions

I am going to preface this by saying this is one of the best steaks I have ever made and it is great in the summer time when you would rather cook outside on the grill then inside!

1 10oz Sirloin(we always split one)
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
2 TBSP Warshester sauce
2 tsp A1 sauce
1 tsp McCormic girll mates for steak
1/4 c French Fried onions
1 small onion sliced
1 Tsp olive oil
1/4 c white cooking wine
1 tsp sugar

Garlic Butter:
1 garlic clove minced
1/2 tsp basil
1/2 tsp parsley
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp thyme
4 TBSP butter softened

Alright now that we have all the ingredients(I know it looks like you need a lot, but I promise it is well worth it), we are going to start by marinating the steak.  Put the steak in a Ziploc bag or in a big bowl which ever you prefer and add the next 5 ingredients.  Let this marinate for at least an hour, but the longer the better, so if you want to get it ready the night before even better!

Next, we are going to caramelize the onion, so in a small sauce pan put the olive oil, white cooking wine, sugar, and onion. You are going to cook these until they are nice and caramelized, cook on a low heat and mix on occasion so it doesn't burn and stick to the pan.  If you need to add more olive oil as it cooks out go ahead, but don't drown it.  This takes about 20-30min, just so you are aware.

Depending on how you like your steak cooked that will be when you need to throw the steak on while your onions are caramelizing.  I like mine med rare, so I put it on when they have about 10minutes left.

Make your garlic butter, by combining all your ingredients together in a small bowl.

Now to assemble. Put the caramelized onions on the bottom of the plate, go get your steak off the grill and place on top of the onions.  While your steak is still hot put the butter mixture on top and then last but not least put the french fried onions on that. 

This steak is to die for! At least in my opinion and I don't even really like onions.  This is my attempt at recreating the onion brewsky sirloin from Logan's Steakhouse.  My husband thinks it tastes better, but I'm sure he has to say that!

Cucumber, onion, tomato salad

1 Cucumber, peeled and sliced
2 pearl onions(red) chopped fine
1 tomato sliced into wedges
8 yellow pear tomatoes sliced in half
3 cherry tomatoes sliced in half
Pinch of salt

Mix all these together in a bowl and add a pinch of salt.  It was a very nice refreshing way to eat some veggies.  The onion really helps give it some good flavor.

Harvest

My veggies are doing so good and it makes me so excited. When we came back from our weekend away we had 5 cucumbers to pick and eat.  We kept 3 and I gave 2 away as there was no way we could eat that many so quickly.  There were 2 more on the vine that would be ready any day.  I picked 1 today and the other should be ready by this weekend! I need to find some cucumber recipes I feel.  Although, both of the boys absolutely love to just eat them as they are.

We also got to pick a couple more pea pods when we got home.  When I looked today there were about 10 more that should be ready any time, I will probably pick them tomorrow.  Elijah loves to eat the peas straight out of the pod, he thinks it is funny to open it up and see all the little "balls."

We were our weeding today and I noticed I have green beans.  I'm going to save them to pick tomorrow.  There are quite a few we should have enough to have some for lunch.  I love fresh veggies and Elijah really seems to love them as well. Yeah for him liking fruits and veggies!

The tomato plants continue to get more and more tomatoes on them, although they are still all green.  I'm so antsy I just want them to get red now so I can make a fun sauce out of them.  Greg reminds me every day, it's just June just be patient they will turn red soon.  Poor man everyday I'm dragging him out to the garden to look at what is coming along with me.  I don't really know that he cares that much, but he knows it makes me happy so he goes along with it. What a wonderful man.

I also picked some of my onions, not because they were ready necessarily.  I wanted some fresh green onions to chop and put in food.  They smell soooo good! I love the smell of them.  I picked 4 that were close to other onions so the others would have more room to grow and then I could use the small ones in the meantime.

My carrots continue to get bigger as do the broccoli.  My broccoli is like miracle broccoli.  I almost pulled them up because those little worms ate them all up.  I just couldn't bring myself to do it.  Well, now I am so glad that I didn't they are growing and one of the plants is huge! It grew up from nothing what a wonderful thing.

I am having so much fun with this! I'm glad you are sharing in my journey on something new.  I did by a 3 in one deal to spray on the plants because I was getting white flies and they were starting to eat my beans, broccoli, cucumber, and peppers.  So it is a fungicide and insect killer all in one.  It appears to be working, I haven't seen any white flies since we got back from vacation.  I also added some plant food to the soil, just since the soil here is like clay.  I figured it would hurt it any, hopefully it won't and it will help things grow a bit better.

How does your garden grow...

Mine is growing swell. I am getting so excited about it! I thought I would share how well things are going through pictures!

 My first tomato is making an appearance, and there are a lot of little flowers all over my tomato plants!

 My cucumber is getting vines and is starting to flower.

 My green beans are getting nice and tall(they started as seeds)

 My onions are starting to bend!

 Peppers are flowering.

Peas are starting to bud and form itty bitty pods!

We all know from yesterdays post how my broccoli is doing, hopefully I'm still able to save them.  I didn't get a picture of my carrots but they are tiny little buds starting to sprout!