Okay, first official post. Not technically. I don't want to deal with technicalities, so from here on out we won't use them. Fair warning!
What we have for you today, my sweet children, is a Ginger Steak Salad.
This beautiful, delicate, soul uplifting recipe comes from Ree Drummond (I'm like 80% sure her last name is Drummond). However, I did alter the recipe just a little bit. Anyway, she is also known as "the Pioneer Woman". You may find her
here.
Shall we continue?
Here's what you're going to need for the steak's marinade:
In case you can't see, that's brown sugar, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, olive oil, and garlic. And obviously a steak of some kind. I like to use this kind:
I like it because it's already cut up and ready to go. Plus I'm not making this for 39,199 people. Just for myself. Mostly because my roommate doesn't eat green food. More for me though. Anyway, what you're going to do is throw all them there marinade ingredients together (don't worry, I'm putting the measurements at the end of the post! Calm down! Breathe!).
Throw it all into a Ziploc bag. You could put it all in a bowl. You could put it all in a box. You could put it all in a dish. But a Ziploc bag is so...so practical. So college. Just throw it in a Ziploc bag, okay? It will calm me. Anyway, let them there marinade marinate your steak for at least 30 minutes. I stress. At least. A couple hours would be optimal, but you can't always get what you want. But you can try.
Let us move on. While your steak is marinating, you're gonna want to get going on that salad dressing. I labeled the items for you in case you were having trouble identifying. Hey. I could show 10 college kids that hunk of ginger and I bet you maybe (MAYBE!) half of them would be able to identify it. So I label. You're also going to need the olive oil and the soy sauce (but I was a silly sausage and already put it away) AND you may want a jalapeño (but I was a silly sausage and forgot to pick one up at the store, facepalm).
Look, I even took a picture of the olive oil and the soy sauce, because I wanted to show you that even though I forgot them in the above picture, I'm still a half decent person. I swear. So anyway, throw all those ingredients together and give them a little bit of a stir. I used a spoon. You could use a whisk. Or a fork. Or your finger, I wouldn't judge you. Sometimes all the dishes are dirty and your finger is right there.
So once your steak has been sufficiently bathed, toss some olive oil into a pan and heat 'er right up. Make sure it's hot. Some like it hot. That was a movie reference, sorry probably inappropriate and ill-timed. Just put your steak in the frying pan okay?
While your steak is sizzlin', you could grab a bowl (or a plate, who am I to make tableware decisions for you?). Take some lettuce. I like a nice lettuce medley, as pictured above. I like to keep myself guessing. I threw in a couple croutons and baby tomatoes because I like the way they taste. I think they both bring a lot to the table. Really charismatic salad garnishes in my opinion.
Because steak takes a mo to sizzle, I suggest you grab some green onions and give them a good old chop chop. Or just one chop. Sometimes I like to repeat words because I think it gives them a more dramatic effect. Sometimes I'm just really weird. I'm going to ask you once to disregard the pineapple in this picture. Much to your dismay, it has absolutely nothing to do with this recipe. That's my b. (Translation, because I realize you may not be 21 years old, my b = my bad. And just a mo or it takes a mo = moment. I also tend to shorten my words ALL THE TIME. I get the vibe that you're smart enough to figure it out). So just chop the green onions okay? We don't have time for all this chatting.
When the steak looks like it's cooked to perfection, please turn the burner off. For the sake of not overcooking the steak and for the sake of not burning down your home. I wouldn't want to be responsible for either. Especially overcooking the steak. Awkward. ANYWAY (sometimes I go off on tangents), please put the steak (while it's still steaming) on top of your bed of medlied (I just made the word up) lettuce, baby tomatoes (if desired), and croutons (come on, who can say no?). Pour your homemade ginger dressing over the top and then throw those green onions on top.
You don't have to throw them. You could dump them or sprinkle them. But I like to throw them. Preferably from across the kitchen, if you have the skill. Which I do. You should have seen me play kickball yesterday, you would have been impressed. Again, that doesn't have much to do with green onions. Kind of though.
Mix it up like an iced drink, and then go find a comfy chair (or stand if you don't have any chairs. Hey, gotta cater to the college kids). I found a comfy chair though. So if I can find one, I have hope that you can find one. Eat your salad and slide into one of those moments where you don't know what's going on around you because all you can think is, "OHHHHHHHH my lanta. This steak is melting in my mouth and the ginger is so delicious and subtle but still so prominent and my mouth is about to explode."
It would be appropriate to listen to Joe Brooks while eating this salad. Oh, you don't know who Joe Brooks is? You, my friend, are missing out. Google that ish.
INGREDIENTS:
Steak
Marinade -
2 TBSP of soy sauce
1 TBSP of balsamic vinegar
1 clove of garlic, minced
2 TSP of brown sugar
2 TBSP of olive oil
Salad Dressing -
2 TBSP of olive oil
2 TBSP of soy sauce
4 TSP of sugar
1 TBSP of lime juice
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 TBSP of fresh ginger, minced
1/2 whole jalapeño, diced
Salad Ingredients -
Lettuce. Duh.
2 whole green onions.
And in case the instructions above weren't clear enough for you.
1. Put all the marinade ingredients together into a bag. Put the steak in the bag. Close the bag. Let it sit for 30 - 120 minutes. Put the steak in a hot frying pan with some olive oil and grill it to perfection.
2. While steak is grilling, put all the salad dressing ingredients together into a bowl. Stir them.
3. Cut up your green onion.
4. Put it all together.
5. Put it in your mouth.
6. Text me and say, "Like omg thx that dinner wuz tha best."
Grab some olive oil, some garlic powder, some Parmesan cheese, some cream of chicken soup, some noodles (any will do, but I like the Rotini. Mostly, I just like saying that word). Oh, and chicken! Sort of necessary.
While my water was boiling for the noodles and my chicken was thawing in the microwave, I mixed everything else together. That's your first step. Mix the whole can of soup plus 1/3 a cup of water. Also, shred some P-cheese. It don't matter how much. Just do it, ya hear? And 1/8 of a teaspoon of garlic powder. I just kind of poured some in there; who measures things? 
I call this picture: 'The Angry Chicken Breast'. 
Some of us college students get stuck in a cycle. It's a vicious cycle. It's a cycle that doesn't involve very much sleep and that DOES involve an awful lot of statistics. And by statistics, I don't mean 59% of the time I do X, and 41% of the time I do Y. No, no. I mean, I'm busy calculating chi squares and figuring out the null hypothesis all whilst listening to my professor think she's having a heart attack that turns out to be just gas. I'm serious. All of this at 8:30 in the morning. So I will have a cup of coffee out of a giraffe mug when I damn well please.
Here's my pasta. It's not a lot. I don't need a lot of carbs at 6pm. I'm not going to go on a run. So I didn't make that many noodles. You can make as many as you want. I'm not going to judge you. 
Once it's all finished, I liked to put my chicken on the bed of noodles. OH, I steamed some green beans too. I wanted to balance it out you know. Trying to be healthy. Those noodles are whole grain, by the way. If you get a chance to make it, I'd encourage it. It was definitely delicious. I'm sort of into alliteration right now. 
