No Fajita Friday


Hi I am Becky Fusselman of “Growing Into Rebecca”.  I am a weight loss blogger turned into a weigh loss maintainer/food blogger in general after losing over 130lb.  Yes, that is right a whole person.  I enjoy food in general and am always in the mood for a good peanut butter preferably paired with chocolate.

friday-steak


I said No Fajitas!

I love cooking on Friday’s!  It is my normal day off and I get to decide what to make for our dinner together.  When I told Kevin I laid out steak for fajitas, he was a bit sad and said “Kind of wish we could just have steak.”  Therefore steak and potato night was born.  I just took the steaks (which were just a whatever cut as I thought I would be making fajitas) and marinated them all afternoon in a Fat Tire beer.  When I placed them on the grill I used a bit of Chicago Steak seasoning which is really just a salt and pepper blend.

no-fajitas

While the steaks were cooking Molly our Boston and I ate some snap peas.  We are both a big fan of all sorts of summer produce.

side-salad

Side Salad Ingredients

  • 1 head of romaine lettuce
  • 1 Roma tomato
  • Half a cucumber
  • ¼ small red onion
  • 2 slices of dill pickle
  • Topped with balsamic vinegar

We also cut some sweet potatoes thinly and used about 1Tb of olive oil with some chipotle seasoning.  These took about 40 minutes at 450 to get nice and crispy on the outside, but yet still a bit soft on the inside.

oh-snaps

And with all that the No Fajitas on Friday dinner was served.

To finish off a great meal I turned a store bought angel food cake mix into this.

angel-cake

To make a delicious topping I used one pound of strawberries sliced, a few tablespoons of sugar and water.  I cooked them on the stove-top till they reduced in their own juices.  I cut the cake into wedges and topped it with the berry reduction.

dessert

I have to admit we used the Redi-whip out of a can though.  No heavy whipping cream here.

Becky (Growing Into Rebecca)

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5 Responses to “No Fajita Friday”

  1. 1
    Pam says:

    Great dinner and your pup is so cute!

    Pam
    http://www.alovefornewrecipes.blogspot.com

  2. 2
    dotsie says:

    The doggie is freaking cute and made me SMILE!

  3. 3
    Danica says:

    WOW – congrats on the fantastic weight loss – that is amazing! I definitely need to check out your site.

    LOVE your recipes above and your puppy is super cute!

    Thanks for sharing!

  4. 4
    Kari says:

    Your angel food cake looks great. I made one on the weekend and the box said not to grease the pan???? It sure made it tricky to get out of the pan later on…

    PS… Hope you are enjoying your trip Zesty. Word on the street is you had to go Comando all week???

  5. 5
    Biz says:

    Thanks for this post! I’ll have to check out your site!

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