What am I doing here?

I am a stay at home mom who is very concerned with the health of my family. I am always on the look out for healthy but tasteful dishes. Last month I attended a cooking class from the Cancer Project. I loved the new ideas and have been trying to implement the things I learned in my every day cooking.

I recently purchased some nifty new items for my kitchen, and I am so excited about them I decided to blog about my experiences and experiments.

My new SaladMaster waterless cookware came with a good size cookbook and I thought it would be fun to make a goal to try everything in the cookbook (my husband won't support me in trying the seafood). This cookware is completely different from anything else I have ever used, and I want to share this expirence with everyone so they can learn from my awesome mistakes and incredible triumphs!



My wonderful husband recently gave me the greatest gift ever, a Blendtec blender. It has a counter on it and I have already used it 30 times in one week. This device nicely compliments the cookware, and I will keep everyone apprised of my adventures with it as well.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Steak and Mashed Potatoes in 30 Minutes

Tonight was one of those crazy nights when every second is scheduled. We got home from parent teacher conference and I had 40 minutes before we had to leave to go to church. Thank goodness I had a plan. I had bought steaks this morning. As soon as I walked in the door I used the No. 3 FF cone to cut Yukon Gold potatoes. I rinsed them, put them in the inset, added an inch of water to the 3 Quart sauce pan, placed the inset into the sauce pan, covered and turned it to medium-click low 15 minutes.

Next, I got the steaks out and put a little grilling seasoning on them. I followed the directions on page 6-2 & 6-3 for pan broiling meat. After the skillet was at 375 I put the steaks on and set the timer for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes I turned down the skillet to 275 and cooked them for 5 minutes more. I partially had them covered while they cooked.

They were very tasty but they were a tiny bit over done. I should have turned it down as soon as I put the steaks on. No one even got any steak sauce out.

While they cooked I made a salad. By the time we got everything on the table, everyone to the table and our prayer said the potatoes were ready to mash. I dumped out the water from the sauce pan and put the potatoes into the pan. I added some seasoning salt and mashed them.

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