Work of the Heart

Instant Pot French Dip Ingredients: 1 beef roast (size dependent on your crowd) 2-2 1/2 cups red wine 2- 2 1/2 cups beef broth 1/2 sweet onion coarsely chopped Worcestershire Sauce Butter Garlic paste Salt & Pepper Parsley First, you want to sear the outside of your roast. Mine was big so I had to cut it into two portions and sear it in stages. Get out all your ingredients, set your IP on sauté Hot. While it warms up, trim up your roast. I prefer to get extra fat off the roast. Put a couple of table spoons of butter in the IP. Salt and pepper your roast and put it in. The goal is just to get it browned on all sides. Once browned, take it out and set on a plate (you want to collect juices). Add a little more butter and sauté onions. After 3-4 minutes, turn your IP off. Put roast back in. Sprinkle in a tablespoon of parsley and 2 cloves of crushed garlic. Pour red wine  (I used a wine we had opened for a get together and didn't finish) and beef broth...

Once a year, I go to town on our house.  I do major cleaning this time of year, every year.  I don't do it all in one week.  I do it over the course of 4-5 weeks.  I am talking deep clean, every crack and crevice gets attention. The past two weekends I have been focused on the 2 upstairs bathrooms.  Our master bath and the kids bath.  I have done a deep clean and scrub to the grout.   I deep clean and scrub both the floor grout and shower and bath grout.  The floor grout is something I only do once a year, the rest of the year its basic mopping.  But mopping doesn't get the deep down dirt. We moved into this house about 2 1/2 years ago.  This house is older than me, we aren't going to talk about just how old that is....we'll just say north of 30.  So things aren't exactly what I would've chosen or pristine condition any more.  I love our older traditional home and we are making changes as we go.  But as anyone who has ...

There are very few people in my life that appreciate my cooking more than my best girl friend Lauren.  Everything I make for her, she swears could be on a restaurant menu.  Although, I'd love to think that is true...alas I think anything cooked by someone else is especially good.  Yesterday, she came by the house to give me some opinions on things and I promised I'd make her my greek bowl for lunch.  I am living a more carb conscious lifestyle.  I try to eat a lower amount of carbs ... especially during the week.  I try to up my lean proteins and veggies. I love Greek food.  In my little family of 5, I am the only one.  So this is a recipe I can whip together easily for lunch for myself or when a friend is around. This recipe is full of plant protein and chocked full of veggies. I sometimes add chicken to this bowl...but I did not today.  It was plenty filling without the chicken. To me the most delicious part of this recipe is the tzatzi...