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Tender, juicy steak, served over a chopped salad with bleu cheese dressing. See other recipes from Cooking Mamas  at https://www.cookingmamas.com/

Ingredients (Servings: 4)

STEAK:
1 c. soy sauce
1/4 c. brown sugar packed
3 T. cider vinegar
1 T. Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 tsp. red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp. ground pepper
1 (2 lb.) flank steak
SALAD:
1 head romaine lettuce chopped
2 tomatoes on the vine seeded & chopped
1/2 sm. red onion thinly sliced
1/2 c. bleu cheese crumbles
1/4 c. whole pecans for garnish
bleu cheese dressing for serving

Instructions

STEAK: In a 9 x 13-inch glass baking dish, whisk together soy sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, red pepper flakes, and pepper. Place steak in dish, turn steak over to coat the other side, then cover dish tightly with plastic wrap. Refrigerate or 2 hours, turning steak occasionally.

Clean and lightly oil grill grates. Heat grill to medium-high. Remove steak from marinade, allowing excess to drip back into the baking dish. Pour marinade into a saucepan and simmer over medium-high heat until reduced by half, about 10 minutes.

Grill steak covered for 4-5 minutes; flip steak over and brush with glaze. Grill until medium-rare, 4-5 minutes more. Allow meat to rest for 8 to 10 minutes before thinly slicing against-the-grain. Serve steak over salad.

SALAD: Arrange lettuce, tomatoes, red onion, bleu cheese crumbles, and pecans on a serving platter. Serve sliced steak over the top. Drizzle some glaze over the steak. Drizzle bleu cheese dressing over all OR simply pass the dressing at the table.

Out of our window,
I see the street is wet.
A passing shower,
Is OK with me
For it brings water
To keep the earth moist,
While keeping our water bill,
Much lower, of course.
The fresh smell of air,
Cleansed, for a while
Is a relief for this
Tired man, who now smiles.

Ugly your thoughts.
Ugly your words,
When you tweet,
It's so absurd.
You know not of love.
You only know hate,
For you chastise others,
When you lie and berate,
The goodness of those
Who wear simpler clothes.
Perhaps it's the truth,
Which will soon depose
Of your hateful rhetoric,
Only the Voter knows.

You said you would drain the
swamps, in the D. C. towns,
but all you have done
is released all your clowns.
You will say one thing and
then you take it back.
I swear you behave now
like Frick and Frack.

A bag, a box, a cloth sack,
you have many excuses
now you want them all back.
Did Mexico pay for your wall?
Or is it your imagination,
which you have? All
the lies you continue to say
and the acts that you do;
Enemy Number One
that now describes you.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The beautiful Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is easy to find with a small telescope in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. About 5,000 light-years away, the colorful study in cosmic contrasts shares this well-composed, nearly 1 degree wide field with open star cluster Messier 21 (right). Trisected by dust lanes the Trifid itself is about 40 light-years across and a mere 300,000 years old. That makes it one of the youngest star forming regions in our sky, with newborn and embryonic stars embedded in its natal dust and gas clouds. Estimates of the distance to open star cluster M21 are similar to M20's, but though they share this gorgeous telescopic skyscape there is no apparent connection between the two. In fact, M21's stars are much older, about 8 million years old.

Photo by Emanuele Petrilli

When you have conquered the fear
of what lies within,
it will be time for an election,
once again.
In spite of what Trump tries to do,
the future of this Nation,
now rests with you.

A long time ago,
in a place far away,
where the children could run
and join others to play,
being close to one another,
not staying six feet away;
playing games or completing a task,
without any worry of wearing a mask

I am writing these words
without rhyme or reason,
for I am a frustrated artist,
as some people might say
but that is not as simple
or difficult to be.
Have I a skill?
Only you can judge,
for I write out these words,
with nothing in mind and
my thought are a flow,
like many times before.
Why is it something I do?
Just to skip a bit as I must;
There is no free lunch and
there never will be. Stay
safe, is what I say now.
Be good to each other
during this short short life.

As many of you know, I am a nationally sought-after marketer. It has come to my attention that President Trump’s campaign is struggling to come up with a new campaign slogan for his 2020 re-election bid. He can’t use Make America Great Again because, well, he's already accomplished that task bigly...........Continue Reading

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Ancient sun daggers will not hurt you, but they may tell you the time.  A sun dagger is a dagger-shaped gap in a shadow created by sunlight streaming through a crevice in a nearby rock. Starting over a thousand year ago, native people of the American southwest carved spiral petroglyphs into rocks that became illuminated by sun daggers in different ways as the Sun shifts in the sky. A type of sundial, where the end of the sundagger points in the spiral at high noon (for example) indicates a time of year, possibly illuminating a solstice or equinox.  Sun daggers are thought to have been used by Sun Priests during lone vigils with prayers and offerings.  Of the few known, the featured video discusses the historic Picture Rocks Sun Dagger near Tucson, Arizona, USA, likely created by a Hohokam Sun Priest around 1000 AD. 

Video by Brad Schaefer Music & License: AwakeningWojciech UsarewiczLone Tree Music

I am all for love and affection.
Hard to do with a Co-vid 19 infection.
Please wear a mask when going out.
Avoid the crowded venues, all about.
Stay safe as you can and please
avoid contacts with others you see.