Mmm...Steak

Recently I had the pleasure (I mean displeasure) of taking care of a whole crap load of farm animals for one of my bosses.  There were cows, cats, chicken, ducks, turkeys, and worst of all, geese. I was shown the ropes by my boss's wife and left to my devices.  One of my responsibilities was wrangling the geese into their corral in the evening.  So the first night I head outside and start shooing geese into the general direction of their corral.  As you're aware geese stick pretty tightly together so I didn't think it would be too hard.  All was going well until I realized one of the calves had found its way into the corral.  Now what?!  Could the calf get out on its own, did I have to coax it out of the goose corral?  I tried encouraging the calf to abandon it's location, but I was a bit scared, even a small cow is a LOT bigger than me.  After a few valiant attempts at calf removal I gave up.  That calf could stay there for all I cared.  As I headed back to the corral gate to resume goose wrangling the geese panicked and ran away.  I regain control of the gaggle by waving my hands and what do you know, it works, they're all headed through the gate quacking and flapping away.  Then I realize, much to my dismay...four geese have missed the gate.  I think to myself "no biggie, I can handle this."  Unfortunately, the four separated geese see their gaggle on the other side of the corral netting and are determined to join them.  To do this they start running at the netting.  All their heads are getting stuck in the net and I'm starting to panic.  Holy shit!!!  I'm going to kill my boss's geese!!!  As luck would have it the weight of the geese forced the fence down and three of the four found their way into the corral and were happily reunited with their gaggle.  Now I only had to deal with one goose.  As bad luck would have it this goose continued launching him/herself at the netting, getting it's head stuck in the netting over and over.  I try holding the net down thinking maybe this goose will be able to get over the top like its buddies.  This doesn't work, so I'm thinking I'm going to have to get in close and I might even have to touch it.  I slowly work my way towards him and he starts quacking, then his protective friends in the corral start coming at me, they're quacking and flapping their wings, but worst of all they are HISSING at me!!!  That's right, hissing, who knew geese hiss?!  That's when I gave up and slowly backed away from the scary gaggle of geese.  I was not getting attacked by a goose, oh hell no!  It was at that time the remaining goose found its way back to the gate and I safely locked the gaggle away for the night.  Oh and if you were wondering about the calf, amidst the melee of my geese wrangling it found its way out of the corral on its own.  I happen to think it was just as afraid of the hissing geese as I was and ran away.  Now that I've given you something to smile about (hopefully), it's time for a new recipe.

You will need:
1 sirloin steak
2 T soy sauce
1 T vegetable oil
1 T brown sugar
1/2 tsp. ground mustard
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
a dash of pepper

Mix everything but the steak together in a tupperware container.  Once mixed coat steak with mixture on both sides and then allow steak to marinate overnight.  Once done marinating, grill steak a few minutes on each side.  I'm not giving you time estimates because in my experience people prefer their steak rarer than I prefer mine.  So grill it how you like it, rare, medium rare, whatever.  Pour a nice red wine, or a cheap red wine (if you haven't already) and enjoy!

Megan S.