Making Meals and a "Pay-It-Forward" Giveaway

I am by no means a fabulous cook. I enjoy cooking for the people I love, but my cooking skills are nothing to rave about, but I love to try out new and easy recipes that make it almost fool-proof for me to be a bad cook. The other day I tried out a recipe for Shrimp Tostadas from Everyday Food, and it was FANTASTIC! It turned out so well! It's a really quick and easy meal to make - perfect for lunch or a light dinner, and just right for Spring. All you do is sprinkle some tortillas with cheese, put them in the oven for about 5 minutes until they turn into crispy tostadas. Then just fry up garlic, chopped zucchini, shrimp, spring onion, lemon juice, pepper, and cilantro and then mix it all up and top the tostadas with it. And it's perfect if you add a dollop of sour cream to the top!

Speaking of Spring and Food - it's barbeque season. I grilled up a steak this weekend, a really nice cut of beef. When I was younger, my family ALWAYS had their steak well done. Any sight of pink would freak my parents out, and so even though I had never tried it, it freaked me out too. But when I moved here to the USA, some friends convinced me to try Medium. The Pink definitely intimidated me at first, but now I wouldn't have it any other way.

Now onto the "Pay-it-Forward" part of my post.
On Lindsey's blog, she had posted about a Pay-it-Forward project that she was participating in from the blog Dabbled. It's such a fun idea. Whoever participates makes something for the first five people to comment on their blog, and those five people have to take note of the following to receive their little giftlet:

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations so please read carefully:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. Whatcha get is whatcha get.
2. What I create will be just for you, with love.
3. It’ll be done this year (2009).
4. I will not give you any clue what it’s going to be. It will be something made in the real world and not something cyber. It may be weird or beautiful. Or it may be monstrous and annoying. Heck, I might bake something for you and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that’s for sure!
5. I reserve the right to do something strange.
6. In return, all you need to do is post this text on your blog and make 5 things for the first 5 to respond to your blog post.
7. Send your mailing address - after I contact you. (Be sure to leave a working email!)

IMPORTANT: This offer is null and void if I do not see you post your own blog to pay this forward.

So there you have it folks. The first five to comment on this post and agree to do the following (mention that you are going to do the "Pay-it-Forward" Project" in your comment so I know) will receive a little something made by me.

And for the rest of you who don't make it in the first five, or aren't creatively inclined to make things for others, I will also make a little condition-free something for a sixth person that will be randomly chosen from all of your comments.

And a question for you - how do you take your meat? Well done? Medium-rare? How?