Happy first day of school! For public school kids in our area. Not anyone in my house or most people reading this, but happy Monday anyway! Let’s eat some beef.
Since school is starting now-ish, I’ve been working on some new dinners that are quick, easy, and delicious. This comes from my obsession with kid sleep – they need to sleep more than they do, they can’t sleep until they eat, dinner can’t take five hours to make, that kind of thing. Tons of sleep for kids yields better moods and better focus in school plus more time in the evenings for grownups, so once the dirty work of getting small people to sleep is done I really only see benefits to the situation.
But we’ve got to eat early enough to make it happen! Enter, steak bites. They cook way quicker than a whole steak and don’t require resting time, and while they marinate you make the rest of dinner – in this case, rice and raw veggies that get a quick slaw treatment with lime juice and salt. Then, the steak bites cook for maybe five minutes total, and dinner is ready! …