Steak Dinner

Tips

Look for sales on sirloin and chuck steak at the grocery. You can find some for $2-$4 a pound, and if you are just cooking for yourself or for one more person, then it’s very inexpensive.

You can keep the raw steak in your fridge, but only for 2-3 days.

You don’t have to have an outside grill to cook good steak. This recipe is for a sauté/fry pan or George Forman grill.

Steak:

Ingredients

Salt

Pepper

Worchestershire sauce

Instructions

Rub salt, worchestershire sauce, and black pepper into both sides of the steak with your hands. (If you don’t have worchestershire sauce, that’s fine.)

Grill both sides in pan or grill as desired (rare, medium rare, well-done). Cut a slit in the middle to check the pinkness.

Garlic Butter Sauce:

Ingredients

1 stick butter

2 tbsp. chicken broth

2 tsp. garlic powder

2 tbsp. chopped or minced garlic. (I use the spice world jar of minced garlic)

Instructions

In a small sauce pan, cook chopped/minced garlic and broth on medium heat until it simmers. Add garlic powder and butter. Stir. Once butter is completely melted, take off heat and set aside.

Green bean and red potato casserole:

I had originally planned on making green bean casserole and rosemary red potatoes, but I decided to combine them.

Ingredients

2 small red potatoes chopped in bite-sized pieces

1 can cut green beans

1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup

3 tbsp. milk (you can add more or less, or add water depending on how thick you want the sauce)

French fried onions

2-3 tsp. black pepper

Instructions

Set oven to 350

Mix milk, pepper, and mushroom soup in a bowl

Add green beans and red potatoes and mix well

Pour into a casserole dish and sprinkle liberally with French onions

Bake for 45-50 minutes or until potatoes are soft.

Tip: To shorten baking time, you can boil potatoes on the stove for 5-7 minutes before putting into casserole and baking. Then you only have to cook for 25-30 min.