Finally In!

Here it is a little over two weeks in our new house.  Its starting to feel like home, despite the boxes, and papers all over the place.

Regardless  of our moving boxes and dishevel we had a little evening of Tapas and Wine out at the fire pit this weekend.  It was lovely having the fire going, and sitting around in the evening just enjoying each other's company.   I love serving Tapas. It's easy and you can do a lot of simple variety or get very extravagant. I saw a recipe for for a steak salad that had a chimichurri sauce I wanted to try making.  So I made the sauce, using a lemon flavored oil, lime juice & zest, jalapenos, cilantro, parsley and some salt and pepper.  Then I took some left over flank steak from dinner a few nights before, chopped it up fine, and put it in a some salad mix greens.  I took some pizza crust and through it on the barbecue, with the chimichurri sauce on it, some goat cheese with kalamata olives, a little red onion on top. When the dough was cooked, I took it off, placed the steak salad also mixed with the chimichurri sauce on top of the crust, and served warm.  It was delicious!  & Made it into a finger food.  I forgot  to take a picture but will next time.

 My daughter showed up later with a couple friends so we through out a few more chairs so they enjoy the fire too. They brought S'more fixings and we had a lot of burnt marshmallows going around.  It's interesting to watch the science of marshmallow cooking.  The patient ones, go for the perfect golden toasted mallow, while the impatient char the mallows to a blackened state.  Regardless much fun was had  by all, whether you were a cooking or watching.  I usually find s'mores to sweet, so I'm more of a watcher.

With both the music and wine flowing, it was a pleasant evening with perfect weather.