Dinner at My Sister's House, or Two Single-for-the-Night Mom's Make Dinner

So tonight, my hubby has a meeting and my brother-in-law Gavin is on a 10 day business trip to the East Coast and India. So my sister and I decided to pool our resources and make dinner together! I brought new potatoes, 2 corno di torro peppers, a bag full of white mushrooms, tomatoes, Anaheim pepper, a giant carrot, and a white onion. My sister provided three New York strip steaks, olive oil, Raven's seasoning, thin and light tortilla chips, lightly seasoned Brussels sprouts, Hawaiian red sea salt, and Frontier Citrus n' herb no salt seasoning.

I finely chopped the tomatoes, onion, and Anaheim pepper, mixed it with a generous pinch of Hawaiian red sea salt, and served it with the chips for starts, so everyone would stop yelling! : ) Milo and the twins were running around and yelling and it was very destructive. However, Moose decided that the chips were much better thrown on the ground and stomped on than being eaten. We disagreed. He lost privileges of holding the bowl.

I then cut the new potatoes into small cubes (quarter inch approximately), tossed them with olive oil and the citrus n' herb no salt seasoning and baked them at 350 for about a half an hour. I peeled the carrot and chopped it into about 1/2 inch cubes and placed them with the preseasoned (olive oil, garlic, and black pepper) Brussels sprouts into the steamer. I then turned the steamer on for about 15 minutes. We preheated the cast iron skillet in the oven with some olive oil. When the potatoes were done, we covered the bottom of the skillet with Raven's seasoning, put the steaks into the pan and covered them with more of the seasoning. We then put the sliced Corno di Torro pepper and mushrooms into the pan, turned the oven to broil and put the pan on the highest rack.

Desert tonight consisted of a Apple Crustodo from Molly Stones, because we were both too dang tired to even think about trying to cook desert as well!

We always have the best time at Auntie Kelly's house, and the twins look to Milo as their older brother, and he to them as his younger siblings. I am so glad that they will get to grow up with cousins as we did, with my cousins Tony and Sorelle. These two grew up literally around the corner from them, making our family so close. It makes me think about the crazy amount of stuff I've bought for Sorelle's baby and how excited I am to have another niece. Yes, she is Auntie Sorelle to my kids and her daughter will be my niece. Isn't that awesome???

So anyway, my nephew and my children are cuddling/playing on the couch and my sister is cleaning the floors after my children have literally destroyed them with the random debris of the day! So I will put them in jammies, and get out of her way for another night!

As another great day comes to a close, I am so grateful to have my family to share these meals with! Nos Pars!