Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce

It's officially summer!  Our farmer's market was filled with strawberries today.  Being overly excited I bought two pints of them, along with a cluster of rhubarb (it's strawberries BFF- they go together like chocolate and marshmallow).

After getting the exciting new that my shift was cancelled tonight, I figured I'd use my surprise extra time by baking with all my fresh fruit!  We opted to have a light breakfast for dinner, so I thought making a strawberry rhubarb sauce would be the perfect accompaniment.

It's so freaking hot in our kitchen, so I had to take breaks in my fruit cutting to cool off and keep from getting too grumpy.  And as evidence that I picked the best boyfriend ever, Joe called into me from the kitchen, where he was helping me chop, "Do you want to do Charm Hour?"  Honestly, he's perfect.  He even made us the drinks- one that merits it's own post.

Anyways, this sauce is very simple but it does take about half an hour to simmer, so time your cooking accordingly.

You'll Need:

1+ 1/2 cups chopped strawberries

2/3 cup chopped rhubarb

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup water

The first step is obviously to cut up all that fruit.

These strawberries are perfectly ripe.

Filet Mignon with Creamy Goat Cheese Sauce

So Joe and I are pretty poor.  I mean we pretend we're not because we get "paid" our loan overpayments at the start of each semester so we can do things like eat and pay rent.  Now that things like my impending graduation and the necessary period of at least two months between me graduating and taking the NCLEX, and then between taking it and getting my scores so I can apply for jobs are becoming more of a reality we're trying to be a little more budget-conscious.  But then again, you still have to celebrate now and then!

I took a standardized test yesterday morning that I did quite well on (yay!) and then had our syllabus day for one of my summer courses and realized that apparently that is our ONLY day of class other than presentation days (double yay!) and that I have 13 days before I even have to go back to school for anything (triple yay!) so I was in a very good mood.  I texted Joe on the way home to grab some cans Old Style at the store because it is a day for day drinking and corn hole (a.k.a. Bags, as they call it in IL)!  But that's for another post...

After some lazy afternoon drinking, we headed over to Trader Joe's to pick up some groceries.  Several beers deep, we picked up a successfully strictly-to-the-list bag of groceries and headed home to cook!  As I had reason to celebrate and Joe is on spring break (that lucky duck!), we splurged a little on some filet mignon and schemed about a sauce to go on top. Bleu cheese is a little overpowering for such a scrumptious steak, so we opted to invent a goat cheese sauce (Hannah- you'd be in heaven, I swear).

Our final menu consisted of:

Steak

Creamy Goat Cheese Sauce

Green Beans

Roasted Potatoes

Okay so at this point I segue over to Joe for the meat expertise, cause it's basically a foreign language to me.