Hello again. Last night, I made minute steaks with peppers and onions. I used left over peppers and onions from the sausages that I made on Sunday, but you can of course, cut new or open a new bag of frozen.
For this recipe I used venison, but if you have beef or chicken minute steaks you can use them. You can also add some different flavors to the mix by adding some Worcestershire sauce, ginger, or pepper rub to your steaks.
My minute steaks were made by cutting steaks to be about 1/5 inch thick on my in-law’s slicer, but you can also cut them thinner/thicker as you desire.
Heat your frying pan over medium heat and add some oil. Once it is hot cook your minute steaks (about 2 cups, or 12 slices) until cooked, only about a minute each side.
Remove your steaks and add your chopped peppers (2 cups) and onion (1 cup). Add more oil if it’s dry.
Once veggies are cooked, add the steaks and juices, stir. Heat for only a minute, remove from heat and add to buns/bread, or serve over rice.
One thing that happened this weekend was our shower stopped working. When we first moved in, the shower was already not working correctly. The hot water knob would slip and make it very difficult to turn on and off the water, as well as hard to close it enough to prevent a leak. In September or October, Josh pulled apart the hot water knob, and was able to tighten a clamp on the cartridge. But, Sunday morning when I was about to shower, the clamp finally gave again, so Josh pulled apart the mechanism and broke the old clamp, but it needed to be actually fixed this time anyway. We turned off the water, took out the cartridge, and took it to ACE hardware to find replacement cartridges. We found two, so we could also replace the cold water too, and we also bought new handles that attach directly to the splines on the cartridge. We returned home late, but we still fixed it and with that we finally have water again. What do you think of the new knobs? Have you ever had problems with your shower handles?
Packing our Freezer (Venison)
We are not vegan or vegetarians, but my husband and I are fervently against animal cruelty. We also understand that our meals come from animals. We understand that some are against hunting, however hundreds of deer die every winter from starvation and car accidents in our area, and if hunting will prevent animal suffering and if hunting can provide food for someone, we feel hunting is worth it. We don’t enjoy the action of hunting, but our ecosystem is cruel. We also use as much of the meat as possible, and find that the meat is often healthier than normal grass/corn fed beef, and has a fat content of less than most beefs. Deer usually has a fat content of less that 5%. With that understood, Josh went hunting this weekend and managed to get a button buck. I had gone hunting with him earlier this year, but this weekend we were fortunate enough to get a small buck. We then took Sunday to process the deer and get it cut and packaged for meals. We are grateful that now we will have 36 meals covered as a result, and it is a blessing that we won’t have to spend as much on groceries in these winter months as a result. What does this mean? It means I’m going to be making a lot of recipes in the next few months using a mixture of my normal beef, pork, chicken, but now also venison. This will be my first year cooking venison, so bear with me as I try new recipes and give you alternates to Venison if you want to try the same recipe. As you can see my freezer is now mostly meat and frozen meals, so please consider subscribing or following if you want to keep up with everything to come!
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