Two Gourmet Dinners for under $10

Awhile back Safeway was having a buy 1 get 1 deal on select meats and that is the time to stock up to save. I mostly bought chicken, but I also bought a large piece of London broil.  It was a large enough piece for two meals for two people and so for Valentine's Day we ate something we don't normal have: red meat.

We grilled the steak, seasoned with a rub, on direct high for 6-8 minutes. It looks pretty pink in the picture, and thus that is the piece my husband ate.  Mine was still pink but not as much. We had a side of sauteed onions and mushrooms, and served it up.  A gourmet meal at home. 

Then last night I used the other half of the steak to make broccoli beef. I steamed my broccoli and minced up about 4 cloves of garlic. I combined the garlic with gluten free low sodium soy sauce and some brown sugar and simmered it on medium heat to thicken up the sauce.  Then I turned it down to low and added in my thin slices of meat, slow cooking them in the sauce.  At the very end I tossed it the broccoli.  You could make some rice, and don't you know I have a lot of rice in the house, but I just didn't seem the need this go around. 

Shopping List

Broccoli (Farmer's Market) $1 for 3 crowns

1 yellow onion (farmer's market) $0.50

8 oz baby bell mushrooms $2.00

London Broil $4.29

On Hand

Salt, Pepper, Garlic and any other seasoning you like or have

Soy Sauce

Brown Sugar

Cheeseburger Revamped

I ate a few salads this week so I don't feel completely horrible about the dining adventure I took over the weekend. A little while back my husband and I were watching a show all about popular cheese meals at restaurants across the country. I forget which city featured the "stuffed cheeseburger" but it inspired me. I love cheese, and Mike loves grilling, so burgers were added to the weekly meal planner.

We started by mixing the seasoning into the meat, and then forming 4 thin burger patties. You're basically going to make a meat sandwich, using the patties as bread. We added both sliced and shredded cheese, pretty much all types of cheese we had in the fridge, and then flipped one meat patty on top and pressed the edges together like you might do to the edge of a pie crust.

I thought the burger might shrink just a little with cooking, but it was still jumbo. Surprisingly my gluten free bun held up under the pressure of this giant burger. I have never, never, had a gluten free bun hold together for an entire eating of a burger, until now. And considering the size, I was super surprised. What brand burger bun did I use, you ask? Canyon Bakehouse.

And a few bites in, my burger farted cheese, lol. Oh so bad, but oh so good. Will I do this again, most definitely, but next time we'll make more of a slider, than a burger, and we'll have to experiment with other types of cheese.

Clean Eating Page 65

Recipe pictures always seem mouthwatering in magazines, and I've made many a recipe where the result looked nothing like the picture nor taste good. However, I have found that Clean Eating Magazine has some great money saving tips, as well as some great recipes. Plus, while it is not a dedicated gluten free magazine, it does often contain recipes that are naturally gluten free, or list ways to alter the recipe to make it gluten free. In the April edition of Clean Eating on pg 65 there was a recipe for a stuffed flank steak, and while I don't generally eat or crave red meat, this one caught my eye. My lovely husband made me it for dinner, and boy was it tasty! Picture courtesy of my husband.