Day Seventy-four--Steak with Whiskey Cream Sauce

Wooohooo, this was a great dinner. It was fairly easy to make, but some planning and organization was needed. Here's what we had:

Steak with whiskey cream sauce, perogies and green beans with a balsamic glaze

Ok, so here's how it went down. Let's start with the perogies. We've been missing perogies. I just can't buy them anymore because they aren't organic. They are full of preservatives and I just can't do it. Tim's cousin Emily posted last week that she had made some and they were successful so I bummed the recipe off of her and made them. I made the dough first thing in the morning so it could chill and be easy to work with. After lunch I boiled the potatoes and sauted onions. This all got mashed together with some fresh grated cheese. This was my filling. I rolled out the dough and made circles with a cup.

Then I put a little bit of filling in the each circle and folded the circle over, crimping it closed with a fork. I was worried that the dough would tear and the filling would ooze out, but it was really forgiving and was a lot of fun to work with.

Once they were all done, I put them in the freezer so they would be easy to work with when it came time to cook them. Then I worked on the green beans. I snipped the ends of them and quick boiled them. Then I made the glaze. It involved a couple of pieces of bacon. After the bacon is cooked, I fried up a chopped onion in the grease. Then I added a tiny bit of brown sugar and some balsamic vinegar. It bubbled and got thick. This is when I poured it over the green beans. I think it was supposed to be served warm, but I wanted a cold green bean salad so I put it in the fridge until dinner.

Fast forward to dinner time. I made the whiskey cream sauce first. Again, it was really easy to do and went really fast. It was onions cooked in a little butter and then some whiskey added to it. Stand back when you pour the whiskey in. Whew. Then you are supposed to add beef broth, but I didn't have any so I used mushroom broth. Then you are supposed to add cream but I only had half n half. It all worked out and was delicious. All I had left to do was cook the rib eye steaks. I cooked two of them and really only needed to cook one of them. The kids didn't eat the steak and Tim and I ended up splitting one of them. I have one steak left over in my refrigerator right now.

This dinner was a great dinner. The meat was so tender and the cream sauce on top was so delicious. We were all fighting over the green beans and the perogies were an ultimate success. In fact, I had so much filling left over that I have dough in the fridge again so we can make perogies for lunch again. I'm watching a neighborhood friend this week and I figured the kids would enjoy something different from peanut butter one day. Plus, it's a fun project for them to build their own perogies.

I think that is all I have for now. I need to work on menus for next week and get my shopping list ready. I'm hoping our hellish heat wave will be over.