An Introduction and Salad

Welcome to Melissa Squared Cooks. We are still trying to work out the kinks in our posting system, but since I have actually cooked today I thought I would share what I made. But first a little introduction to me. I am Melissa D. I recently graduated with a Bachelors in History. I do love to cook and of course eat. I am currently participating in Weight Watchers and have lost almost 20 lbs. I hope to lose a lot more by the end of this year. I was looking for a blog that catered to single young people and could not find many especially healthy food. I then went on a cookbook search.
I got the cookbook entitled The Little Black Apron: A Single Girl's Guide to Cooking with Style and Grace. So far I have not only enjoyed cooking my first twoish recipes from it, but I have also enjoyed reading the book. As a young single women fresh out of college and working I realized that I needed a book that had recipes for one or two people. I am used to cooking for at least four people and making the transition to cooking and shopping for one person is extremely difficult. I am still having to train myself on how to buy fresh produce and dairy for myself. 
One suggestion I would make if you don't drink that much milk is to buy organic milk as it last about two weeks longer than regular milk for a half gallon even though it costs about twice as much. I have eliminated wasting most of the milk. 
I was going to make the Caramelized Onion and Mushroom Pizza with Fontina Cheese and the Pear Walnut Arugula Salad. However I went to make the pizza dough and found out that the flour that we had in my house was full of worms yuck!!!!! So I switched up my game plan. I made herb crusted steak and mushroom ragout. I didn't know how I was going to eat it as my original meal plan was to have the herb crusted steak and mushroom ragout with the Pear Walnut Arugula Salad and bread crumb cauliflower. I had to go to work so I didn't make the cauliflower and was not really intending to eat when I came home. Yet I was starving so I assembled this lovely salad. 

 It consisted of arugula, about a 1/4 of a pear, Gorgonzola cheese, about 3 oz of the steak, approximately 1/8 of a cup of the mushroom ragout, and a vinaigrette of olive oil and champagne vinegar.  (8 Weightwatcher PointsPlus). So delicious!!!!