1. Every six months or so, I jump on the laptop and join a financial professional or two who work for the company where I've invested in a retirement account. Today, one of those pros and I talked about medical things to get warmed up, reviewed my account, addressed a few questions, and signed off.
We'll talk again in April.
Things looked fine.
2. I had a few items on my shopping list at Yoke's today. Once I put those in my cart, I drifted over to the meat case, wondering if something might jump out at me that I hadn't thought about for dinner tonight.
Small, thick tri tip beef steaks called out to me.
So did a package of bacon.
I answered the call and began to imagine just what I might do with bacon and these little steaks to make a (I hoped) fun dinner.
3. I let the steaks and the bacon warm up to room temperature. First I fried three strips of bacon and poured some of the grease in our cast iron skillet for cooking the steaks. I took the bacon out of the pan and made a mess of onion, mushrooms, French green beans, and corn -- and once it all was cooked, I added broken pieces of bacon back in the pan.
I kept this side dish warm and seasoned the steaks with Trader Joe's garlicky and spicy seasoning blend called Aglio Olio.
I didn't want to overcook the steaks. At the same time, in my post-transplant life, I am supposed to be sure to cook meat through and through.
I'd say that I cooked these steaks right at medium rare. I hoped they were cooked enough not to make me ill. (So far, no problems!)
We had some bean salad left over and I put out that container and that was your meal: steak, vegetables with bacon, and bean salad.
It worked!
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