Recipe Contest

My god-daughter has a beef farm in Wisconsin and sponsors a recipe contest every year.  She provides the recipes and, if you live near her, you can purchase all the meat and some of the specialty items in a package. I had previously shared week 1 and week 2, here are the rest of the recipes. 

Week 6: last night.  We really enjoyed the Pesto Butter Skirt Steak with Crispy Garlic Butter Parmesan Potatoes and Asparagus Spears

Week 5: Beef Shank Asian Lettuce Wraps. Good, but our beef shanks were a little greasy. Where is the lettuce?

My hint to keep grocery prices down is to shop at one store. And this was what lettuce looked like when I was there. The fancy ones were brown and the iceberg was doll sized. 

My husband had his on hamburger buns. 

Week 4: Smothered Italian Sausages. This was another big hit with my husband. 

Week 3: Raspberry Balsamic Pork Roast with Mascarpone Polenta. Well.  First, her package provides the polenta grain from a small farm near her. The only grocery in my small town with polenta was (gasp) (groan) Walmart and all they had was premade polenta in a TUBE. I found directions to make it creamy.  I truly hope this isn't what polenta is supposed to taste like.  I also had to search for mascarpone cheese.   All in all, this was a very expensive dinner and neither of us really cared for it.  But it was pretty on the plate. 

That is the end of the recipes (I had shared 1 & 2 earlier).  Now I have to think of what to have for dinner all by myself! 

When I was going through my food porn, I found a few more pictures. 

A itty bitty village near us has a cafe with new owners. They are the cutest couple, both named Adam, and this is the Tuesday Special, chicken and biscuits. And tea comes with a teapot!  I do lunch once a month with my "glass class" girls, who were in my stained glass classes at the senior center. After covid the classes never resumed. Neither did most of the other classes.  Now they are building a four million dollar senior center with Biden bucks which is requiring a new higher operating levy on our ballot this month. 

I run a diner for grandkids and grampa on weekday mornings. Some teachers hear about the menus and threaten to join us. I took these pictures to stop them in their tracks. As I ran through the choices one morning, these two chose leftover spaghetti from my frig for breakfast. 

This morning we had an inch of snow. Tomorrow we have a forecast in the 60's.  Yes, it's March!