A Big Ole Steak

So before I get to our delicious meal, I thought I'd share our afternoon snack, fresh grape/apple juice with protein!  The grapes made such a pretty color of juice!

But, while we were juicing we dropped a few grapes and Hercules of course chased after them... only he had a little trouble trying to eat them up! He was so confused as to why he couldn't chew up the grapes!

Anyways, then we make our drinks, the pink shaker is obviously mine, thanks Caleb to ordering it for me last week! Only $6.90 at Amazon. 

But, back to the food.  After such an amazing week and finding such great deals on Mahi Mahi and Chicken ($0.99/lb), Caleb and I decided to go after something a little more fancy and spoil our selves with a rib-eye.  Now for $9.50 for the rib-eye, $1.25 for the potatoes, and $0.75 for the broccoli, I'd say we did pretty good price wise.   

Now for this recipe, Caleb was the man of the hour.  As you can see in the picture, there are only two things required to make a great steak: Dale's and Montreal Seasoning.  (Look at that big honker! Rib-eyes were only $7.99/pound, so it was a steal!). 

So to marinate, Caleb just put about 1/2 cup of dale's and about  a pinch of the seasoning on top of the steak and left it out on the counter for thirty minutes.  Then he flipped it over and marinated it for another thirty minutes, again on the counter.  According to Caleb, meat cooks more evenly in the middle when it's allowed to sit out and brought to an even room temperature. Boy oh boy am I glad I have Caleb.

So after marinating, Caleb makes his way outside to the grill.  He sears on each side (check out his perfect grill marks).

He seared it at a high heat one way, then flipped it around to get the checkerboard look, then flipped it over and did the same on the other side. 

So while Caleb was busy grilling I was inside making some whipped potatoes and steamed broccoli.  I simply cut up the broccoli into smaller pieces and steam it up in this steam basket my mom got me.

So you just put the lid on it for about 20 minutes and then voila! You've got some delicious and healthy broccoli! I season it with a pinch of salt, pepper, and italian seasoning.  Also, to make it extra good, I top it with some parmesan cheese!

Now for the potatoes you want to make sure and salt the water very generously.  I simply scrubbed up some yukon gold potatoes and diced them up into the water.

20 minutes later, they are ready for first a mashing.  Before mashing, I add about 3 tablespoons of butter and half a cup of heavy cream, and of course, salt and pepper.  After mashing, I take out my hand blender and whip them up all creamy and smooth!

And, as if on cue, Caleb walks in with this beautiful, and perfectly cooked medium rare rib-eye. 

So we plate up our feast and this is what we get.  Notice, the steaks are topped with herb butter: basically churned together fresh unsalted butter, salt, pepper, fresh parsley, fresh thyme (because we had it), and some italian seasoning, but mostly just parsley.

And of course, no post would be complete with out leftovers!  We had this hunk of meat left over, and our favorite thing to do with left over steak is to sear them in a small pan with some balsalmic vinegar.  Sear on high heat for less than 1 minute on each side.  Allow the vinegar to glaze a little and pour it over the seared steak.  YUMMY! Enjoy over crackers.