holidays — A Southern Fairytale

Grilled Steaks with Cilantro Lime Butter

9:57 PM ByRachelFiled Underholidays, Main Dishes

If you’ve been around me for a hot minute, you know that I love to cook, grill, entertain and be around people. I love to feed people, to see their smiles and to hear the boisterous laughter and conversation drop to murmurs and mumbles when delicious food is being consumed.

I love empty, messy, fork- scraped plates because that means that both hearts and tummies are full.

I honestly can’t tell y’all what my favorite food to grill is, because the truth of the matter is that I love being outside, and the smell of a hot grill, the sound of the sizzle when food hits those searing hot grates, well that just makes my heart go all 3 times bigger grinch-swelly.

There’s a major grilling holiday coming up this next weekend, in case you didn’t know, and I’m excited to share an amazingly easy and delicious steak recipe with y’all.

These Grilled Steaks with Cilantro Lime Butter are a perfect pairing for Bush’s Black Bean Fiesta Grillin’ Beans

I’m really excited to share this super simple, flavor packed, mouthwateringly tonguegasmic recipe for these Grilled Steaks with Cilantro Lime Butter

Grilled Steaks with Cilantro Lime Butter

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Approximate Time: 20 minutes

Grilled Steaks with Cilantro Lime Butter

Ingredients

4 (8oz each) Ribeye Steaks
1/2 C room temperature, unsalted butter
1/4 C fresh chopped cilantro, loosely packed
3 Tbsp fresh squeezed lime juice
1/4 tsp lime zest
salt and pepper, to taste
(optional)
sprinkling of crushed red pepper flakes for each steak

Instructions

For the Cilantro Lime Butter

Place 1/2 C room temperature, unsalted butter in a small bowl
Add in 1/4 C chopped cilantro, the juice of 2 limes ( about 3 Tbsp), and 1/4 tsp lime zest
Mix all the ingredients and use immediately, or seal with plastic wrap and save for later.

For the steaks

Rub each steak with a bit of Cilantro Lime butter
Place the steaks on your hot grill and cook.
Remove from heat, place another dollop of Cilantro Lime Butter on top and allow to rest 5 minutes

Rachel Says

I serve this with Bush's Black Bean Fiesta Grillin' Beans

http://asouthernfairytale.com/2012/05/20/grilled-steaks-with-cilantro-lime-butter/

“Grillin’ Bold this Memorial Day? Bush’s has the beans for it. Come join the cookout with Cookin’ Canuck and Hoosier Homemade sponsored by Bush’s Grillin’ Beans.” Link up your recipe and enter to win a great giveaway

If you need inspiration for this Memorial Day, trust me.. the recipes you’ll find in that link-up are sure fire winners!

Happy Monday, y’all! Thanks for bearing with my disappearing act last week.
After the crazy, scary weather… we shut everything down and just spent time with each other.

Thank y’all for coming back, linking up and sharing.

I appreciate y’all and your deliciousness!

Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Bush’s Beans, but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Easter Menu Ideas

9:21 AM ByRachelFiled Underholidays, Mouthwatering Monday

I can’t believe that Easter is this coming weekend!
WHERE is this year going??

If you’re anything like me, you’ve got class parties this week, Easter Menus to plan and Easter shoes to find.

I thought I’d help y’all out a little bit with the menu planning and share some of my favorite Easter Recipes.

Do you have a class Easter party this week?

I made these adorable and EASY Easter Peepcakes last year and they were a major hit!

Easter Appetizers

I love this Creamy Avocado Yogurt Dip from Maria at Two Peas and Their Pod
These Old Bay Deviled Eggs from Noble Pig make my mouth water
You can’t go wrong with my Party Cheeseball

Main Dish

Need your oven for your apps and side dishes? Try this Slow Cooker Maple Ham from CrockPot 365
This recipe for a Honey Mustard Glazed Ham from Chow looks amazing!

Side Dishes

Wow your friends and family with these tonguegasmic Bacon Wrapped Asparagus Bundles

This Corn Casserole with Bacon and Cream Cheese from Buns in My Oven sounds heavenly
I’ve recently fallen in love with snap peas and these Herbed Sugar Snap Peas from Family Fresh Cooking are already on my list of things to make SOON!

Dessert

Caroline, from Chocolate and Carrots, developed this AMAZING Bird’s Nest Cake for Food Bliss and I honestly drool every time I see it.
These amazing Triple Chocolate Cookies from Dine and Dish would be a perfect easy to grab, rich and yummy dessert
This bourbon banana pudding with glazed pecans from Gourmet makes my heart go pitty pat

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Just a few recipes to inspire y’all and get y’all thinkin’! What are your plans for Easter weekend?

Do y’all do a traditional Easter Egg Hunt? Sunrise Church Service? Lots of Food, Family and Friends? I’d love to hear your Easter plans.

Thanks for linking up every week, y’all! I love seeing what’s going on in your kitchens and what y’all are serving your loved ones.

A few favorites from last week

Mouthwatering Monday: Link up your recipe, link back, comment, visit others and comment, pin, stumble, tweet, share the love :0) Happy Monday, y’all!

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One.

7:34 AM ByRachelFiled Underholidays

It only takes one.
One moment.
One word.
One gesture.
One action.
One second…

to change the world.

While we in the US talk this week about our abundance of riches and all that we have to be thankful for: family, food, friends, and vacation – there are many who have less than we can possibly even imagine.

There are those who live in conditions that are unfathomable to our senses and even beyond the scope of our vivid, often over-saturated imaginations.

I am a very proud and avid supporter of the amazing ONE.org . This is a powerful, wonderful, beautiful group of people, making a difference in the lives of the world’s poorest, improving futures in Africa, changing lives and proving that ONE really can change the world.

I wish I were better at giving thanks and giving back on a year round basis.
I wish it didn’t take a holiday to remind me of just how blessed I truly am.

One of my goals is to make my children more aware.

I think Thanksgiving is a perfect time to not only give thanks and give back, but to open my kids’ eyes to the world beyond our driveway.

An email that I received recently, reminded me of this.

In an effort to raise awareness ONE has two new PSA’s about the famine in the Horn of Africa and they’re sharing an adapted traditional Somali Sambusa recipe. The dessert dish uses ingredients indigenous to Somalia – but are readily available in any local grocery store.