First dinner...success!

So Friday night Trey and I decided to act like adults and cook our first dinner in our apartment. We've been afraid to use our stove because prior to our moving in, a rat had made it his home/toilet. Yuck. (Side note, keyboard cleaner, surgical masks, gloves, and several bottles of bleach does the trick to clean out rat doo doo pies from the nooks and crannies of a stove....and yes, it was as insane as it's appearing in your head right now).

I call it our stove/oven....but in all reality it's a glorified easy bake oven. It's small, like crazy small. But it does the trick for two people with limited cooking skills.

So back to dinner, we bought some cheap steaks and instant mashed 'taters (the cheesy kind, of course). Marinated the steaks in soy sauce, salt, pepper, and garlic powder for a few minutes, then threw them on our fancy saute pan. 4 minutes on each side, 4 minutes in the microwave for our potatoes and BAM...dinner on the fly. Everything tasted great, the cut of meat was less than desirable (I'm a total steak snob, fillet mignon is what I crave. Rich man's taste on a poor man's budget).

Then we watched a movie with some friends and Rooney...or tried to, at least. The storms were big time cramping our style. Have I mentioned how we lose power just about every time it storms? Our apartment's kind of 'quirky' (that's a nice way of saying it's your typical poor married couple's first cheap rental). When we vacuum, if anything is turned on in an outlet besides the vacuum, we blow the breaker.  Awesome, right?  Be jealous.

For those of you who don't know, this is Rooney

'Till next time!