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Happy Easter everyone!  I hope that you had a great Easter and remember to thank the Lord for what He did for all of us, to celebrate Him everyday because He is Alive, He is Risen!

We had a great Easter weekend, nice weather (blue sky, sun is out = perfect weather).. Hubby and I had dinner at seattle last Friday in this Spanish tapa place called “pintxo”. This is our 3rd time at pintxo’s, we really like the food because it gives us a little taste of Spain through the food that they serve!  We had the typical cheese and meat platter, their appetizer plate, that consists of olives, chorizo, shrimps, meatballs (very tasty).  After hearing the Easter service, off we went for our Easter brunch  to Anthony’s (@kirkland), lots of people there and although my mom in-law had a reservation we still had to wait for a good 20 minutes..view was nice, good brunch with family…it was a great Easter sunday for me!

I’ve made this recipe before and we really liked it!  I had left over broccoli from last week and I’m kinda sick and tired of the usual steamed veggies..so I decided to just prepare the broccoli this way.  At least the sauce helped to add so much flavor.  I think the cornstarch made all the difference because the meat was so tender and just melts in your mouth!  I’m not sure if the cornstarch did the trick or the beef was just so thinly sliced..Anyways, the whole preparation and cooking time was so quick, like less than 10 minutes (excluding the marinating time of 2 hours). Dinner time is so much easier whenever I do the prep work ahead of time.  This cuts down on the time needed for cooking and saves us money too!  If I’m not cooking, I tend to ask the hubby to just buy fast food (KFC, Mcdonalds, Pizza!).

Ingredients:

1 pound steak ( I used tenderloin,thinly sliced)

1 tbsp soy sauce,1 tsp fish sauce,3 tbsp oyster sauce,1 tsp cornstarch,1 tsp sesame oil, 2-3 garlic,cooking oil,pepper,1/4 water

Instructions:

Mix the thinly sliced beef with the soy sauce,fish sauce,oyster sauce,cornstarch, sesame oil,garlic, pepper. Marinate for couple of hours (2-3 hours).

Heat the oil in a wok, toss the marinated meat and cook quickly! Add the broccoli,keep tossing until well coated with the sauce,add water if it starts to look dry. Keep tossing until meat is cooked and broccoli is crisp!

Yesterday was my Dad in-law’s 60th birthday, but we celebrated it last Saturday since everyone is so busy lately! We had steaks and shrimps and salad and yummy carrot cake that my mom in-law prepared.  Everything was yummy especially the bday cake!  Here’s some of the pictures I took:

I love Rice!  Hey, I’m asian so a meal isn’t “complete” if I don’t have any rice!  LOL..so usually on a Friday Hubby and I just try to relax and treat it like our “date night” and we’ll probably eat out or just take out food and have a loungy session at home( movie or tv shows marathon)..So whenever hubby asks me what I’m craving my famous answer is always ” I want rice”, hehe! Last week we had Thai, then this week we went to seafood city and had filipino food!  I’m lucky because it was a weekend and they had Letchon..It’s not as yummy like we normally have in my city but they still have that letchon flavor, salty and tender ribs!

Last weekend, we “dogsat” our friends dog, Peanut!  I think she is a mixed breed (doberman and lab) not sure if I’m right!  Peanut is such a good dog, she was well behaved and very obedient.  Riley had fun playing with her and they really got along very well.  It’s just funny because they are very opposite in size, Riley, a mini schnauzer, and Peanut is not so mini :-).. Saturday morning we woke up early so we can have the dog park to ourselves and the 2 dogs had the grandest time!  It was quite a busy weekend for me because I had two shadows following me most of the time..very fun weekend!

Last Friday night, hubby and I had a late celebration of our 3 years of marital bliss! He’s really busy this week that’s why we planned to have it on a Friday night. We had a Morton gift certificate from my parent in-laws last year from our bday.  I’ve been really wanting to experience Morton’s steakhouse!  Before heading out we already “planned” what we’re gonna order because based on our dining experiences we always end up ordering too much.  I’m not really a big fan of left overs, especially steaks.  So the “plan” was to just get 2 appetizers, 2 main entrees, 1 side dish, share a dessert! We stuck to the plan and hubby got a mojito for his drink! All in all it was a nice experience, the food was great and service too. Despite that, we didnt order a lot this time, we still have left over steak because I couldn’t finish my filet mignon, I was kinda full before the main entree were served, Oh well!!

This week, we’ve been  “eating out”  more than usual because we’ve been out and about most of the time this week! Just wanted to share some of the pictures I took for the last couple of days!

So today Hubby and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary and we wanted to just stay at home and celebrate later this week!  We wanted to invite Zach’s parents because we prefer to celebrate it with family (wish my family were our neighbors too)..Zach’s sis couldn’t make it because of prior commitments!  We prepared steaks and roasted potatoes / sweet potatoes, cornmeal fried onions (all Ina Garten Recipe) .  Ina’s recipe is simple, easy and special, after all it is a special celebration for us.  So we decided to use Ina’s steak recipe because I’ve seen her episode on this one and I was really amazed at how simple the steaks were to prepare..”seared then put in the oven”, how easy is that?..Off to whole foods (whole paycheck…hehe) to get filet mignon and our fave dessert wine (only found in whole foods too).. I also prepared a chicken dish (similar to chicken cordon blue) because my mom in law is not into steak!  The steaks were salty for our taste but still good, we love the Roquefort chive sauce too.. We will definitely do this again but will adjust the salt that Ina called for!  I had a lovely evening with my hubby and in-laws..so special to be with people who guide and continue to be an inspiration in our marriage 🙂