Tri Tip Steak with Red Wine Sauce

Here is a great grilling recipe. It calls for flat iron or tri tip steak. We get our tri tip steaks at Costco and they are really good and pretty darn cheap for good beef. Here is a link to the recipe. The only alteration is that we don't strain the sauce as we are both onion eaters.

I hope you enjoy it!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/flat-iron-steak-with-red-wine-sauce-recipe/index.html

Two Lindsey's

My very good friend Lindsay Larson came down from Minnesota to visit us this past weekend. We don't see each other that often and we don't talk on the phone that much, but each time we are together it's instantly just like old times. Maybe that is because we have been friends since we were really little. Or maybe because our parents (who are good friends from college) named us the same name:). She is one of my favorite people. Here we are in front of the Old Capitol building here in Iowa City.

And here she is with her nice boyfriend Aaron. Thanks for visiting, guys!

And here's Andy and I at the Old Capitol Criterium bike race. Flights of bikers race a 1 kilometer loop around downtown which includes a HUGE uphill and a downhill with a sharp turn at the bottom. Yes, we saw a few good wipe outs here. Andy decided he wasnts to be a bike rider now.


Andy and I went to hit some balls at the driving range, but it was closed due to wet conditions. We did some putting instead. Andy said that I was the #1 putter. Watch out dad, we're already practicing!
And we finished off the weekend with a great dinner with Andy's parents. I'm posting the recipe soon. See, I told you I was catching up on my posts!!

A little catch-up

Sorry. I have been the world's worst blogger the past month. I THOUGHT about it a lot, took pictures of food so that I could post some new recipes, but haven't gotten around to it. I have catching-up to do.

Here are some pictures from Easter. We went back to the suburbs for Easter with my family on Friday and Saturday and then we came back to IC early Easter morning for brunch with Andy's family. It was a nice weekend!

Here is Andy's prized egg. It is a Hawkeye football helmet. He later dipped it in the yellow dye for the full black & gold effect. He's so artsy!
And here is sweet little Nico! He loves his Auntie Lindsey!!!
And here he is with Grandma!

My mom, Des, Nico and I are heading up to our friend's wedding in Minnesota in two weeks. I can't wait to go with him on his first road trip!