The new recipe countdown continues! Well it actually continued on Friday night, but I haven’t gotten around to blogging it until now.

Friday evening’s recipe was Saucy Beef and Rice or you can use noodles. I went to noodle route for a couple reasons.

1. I am not a huge fan of rice…it is so dry

2. I have never made rice before and decided it was easier to just make noodles for this time around. I’ll attempt the rice another night.

Something I’ve always found hard with noodles is that so many recipes seem to just say “serve with noodles” or “serve over noodles”. It would be nice if they could tell me how many noodles to cook! I have yet to figure out how to guesstimate the amount of noodles I need for the amount of whatever I am making. Something else you just learn with time I guess!

I also made chocolate chip cookies last night…I have made those before, but I thought we needed something sweet in the house. I used a recipe my mother has always used and I have always loved. Somehow they just didn’t turn out like they should. Again, probably something I will just master over time, but it seemed even though I had the oven temp right, the cookies were a little too dark on the bottom and too light on the top. I was using a dark, non-stick pan which perhaps could have been part of the reason, but my mom’s pans are dark and her cookies are perfect. *sigh*

I will keep trying until I get those cookies right!!

Here is the recipe for Saucy Beef and Rice (or noodles)

1 1/2# of Round Steak

4 tbls. oil

1/4 c. water

1 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. pepper

3 cloves of garlic-crushed

1 can Cream of Mushroom soup

1 can water

Cooked rice or noodles

Trim fat from steak and cut into cubes. In a large pot, brown steak cubes in oil. Drain fat. Add water, salt, pepper, and garlic. Simmer 1/2 hour, covered, stirring occasionally. Add soup and water. Cover and simmer 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

Serve over rice or noodles. Makes 4 serving.