Dinner = (partial) Fail

Now that Dave and I are back from our travels, we’re determined to get back on a normal schedule and back to cooking so we can get back on track with weight watchers and get to our goal weights.

With this in mind, I hit the c-ville farmer’s market on Saturday and Wegman’s on Sunday (we try to be environmentally conscious, but driving is really the best way to get good food a decent price in this case).  Saturday ending up being a lost evening cooking-wise thanks to an afternoon of wine tasting, so we got back on track last night.

Dave wanted to grill, so he found a recipe for a grilled flank steak over a bed of arugula dressed with a balsamic glaze.  I added a side of fresh peas to the menu thanks to an impulse buy at the farmer’s market.  The peas were wonderfully fresh (fresh peas are really the only way I’ll eat them), and the steak was beautifully cooked…the best Dave’s ever cooked meat on the grill.  He’s gaining some “mad skills” as he’d say.  The glaze was a disaster, however.

Dave put it best by asking me, “When was the last time you worried that an entree would remove a filling?”  The glaze wasn’t so much a glaze as it was a hard candy coating over the beef and greens.  Dinner was actually fairly good once we picked off the glaze pieces, but it left us with the cleaning of the saucier we used to make the glaze.

 Yes, the pan is hanging by the spoon…that’s how firm the glaze set.  It all worked out in the end, and I just dressed a salad with sherry vinegar for lunch today.  While we’ll try the idea again, we will definitely search out a new glaze recipe!