Steak

Per le hubby: Pretty marbled steaks!

Steak for dinner again! On actual dinner plates. With a salad. :o)

Steak

is what's for dinner...

First homecooked meal in our house! No place to sit. No real dinnerware. But we did buy flatware and 2 steak knives! Om nom nom... :)

Steak

Hubby's keto friendly steak with side salad and cheese chips, which are homemade and super easy to make if you have the time. 

Le hubby always cuts up my steak for me. Yum! Also, strawberry salad is quite delicious. I should add fruit to my salads more often!

Keto friendly munchies & dinner

Today, I made my hubby a small plate of keto friendly munchies! A thick slice of liverwurst, deli sliced havarti cheese, chopped creamy gouda, and some pepperoni slices. Even I enjoyed stealing some to eat myself ! :D

For dinner, we had steak and salad. I love that hubby cuts up my steak for easy chompings. :) Salad is Costco's mixed greens topped with dried cranberries and toasted pumpkin seeds. Mm-mmm good! It's also keto friendly without the berries and seeds. Nom nom nom.

Marinated Steak

We decided to try something new tonight. Marinating sliced steaks with persimmons! 

Steaks sliced and marinated overnight with 1 sliced persimmon, 1/2 tsp tarragon and light soy sauce.

We never buy these. But, le hubby wanted them and they were on sale, so why not? (And he was off keto today.)

Mmmm, very-bad-for-you delicious crispy-ness.

The steaks were simply cooked in a non-stick pan over medium to high heat with butter, salt and pepper to taste. Served with salad, flaky buttery biscuits and corn on the cob. Makes for a great dinner! (PS: The flank steaks were super tender. I guess persimmons make a great tenderizer.)

Steak and Salad

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

For father's day, we were gonna treat dad and go to Road to Seoul to stuff our faces with delicious meats and side dishes for lunch. Sadly, it turned out that dad decided to eat with his fellow church people and didn't come home til about 2pm. That meant  the hubster and I had to think of something else. What other meats to eat? Why, a steak of course! And so we set course to our local Pavillions and bought ourselves some steak and our favorite kettle chips!

This was supposed to my pop's Father's Day dinner, but my he was still too full and so this ended up being my hubby's and my dinner:

Mm-mmmmmm

However, pops did find room for dessert that we bought esp. for him:

Danish pie! Twas super yummy. I can't remember the last time we had danishes in the house. It's been awhile, which made it that much more enjoyable.

The next day, pops did get his steak and salad though:

Steak n Salad

For tonight's dinner, we had a good old fashion American dinner. I'm guessing that usually means steak, right? Anyhoo, we had steak and salad. My hubby usually makes the steak via Alton Brown style (mostly cooked in the oven), but tonight he tried it Gordon Ramsay style (cooked entirely on the stove top).

First, you need to bring your steaks out to room temperature. Let it sit out for about an hour or so before you cook it.

When your steak is at room temp and you're ready to cook it, heat up a cast iron skillet on high. Then, sprinkle your steaks with salt (we used sea salt) and freshly ground pepper.

Once your cast iron skillet is hot, add oil. Then place your steak in the skillet. Sear each side for 3-4 minutes for medium rare, then flip the steak. About 1 1/2 minutes on the second side, melt butter into the pan.

Finally, serve on a bed of lettuce (or on the side) and let it rest for 10 minutes.

above: the hubster' steak

and mine (I did a halfsie with my pops & my hubster kindly (and without asking) sliced up our steak. It was mm-mmm delicious)

Super fast and super simple. Even I could make it! :)

Gordon Ramsay's youtube vid.

Gordon Ramsay's website.

Best to have one of these: Lodge Logic Cast Iron Skillet - 15 1/4" - Lodge Logic (Google Affiliate Ad)

Devilled eggs, Steak n Cauliflower

Appetizers: devilled eggs homemade by my soon-to-be hubby! Super delicious! He boiled the eggs, peeled the eggs, dug out the yolks and placed them in a bowl. He mashed the yolks and mixed in mayo, sour cream, and a bit of mustard. He seasoned the yolk mash with salt, pepper, paprika and I think something else but I can't remember what... anyhoo, it was super yummy. Even pops had something to say about it.

More steak for dinner. Ain't that purty?

Sliced steaks, another devilled egg and cauliflower mash. Mm-mmm!

Steak, broccoli, and asian noodles

Steak, broccoli, and asian noodles. Yum!!

Keto-friendly - Steak, broccoli and monterey jack cheese. Yummy too!!

Superbowl Sunday Foodies

Prep the steaks by rinsing briefly under cold water and then pat dry. Then cover all sides with lemon pepper seasoning. Cover with saranwrap and refrigerate until ready to eat.

Made some cornbread from scratch with cornmeal flour. 

Prep the wings for late lunch munch: half with lemon pepper, remaining half with kosher salt. Bake in preheated oven of 475F for about 45 minutes or until done.

Washed some very red strawberries. Sa-weeet!

Fried up a bit more salmon bellies and deliciously eaten with sour cream.

Hot wings are baked to perfection with a nice golden brown skin.

Hot sauce warmed up and mixed with butter. Mmmmmmm.

For the wings with only kosher salt, place'em in the hot sauce.

Lemon pepper wings on the left and regular wings on the right with more hot sauce in the sauce cup.

Kettle Chips!! 

Steaks were seared in hot cast iron for about 60 seconds on each side then placed into preheated oven for about 8 minutes, flipping after 4 minutes or something like that... the fiance took care of this.....

Super scrumptious dinner with sliced steak, cauliflower n cheese mash and cornbread. Soooooooooo delicious in my tummy!!!

NY Steaks

My bf always cooks the steaks because he knows how to get them done just right. Before placing them in the heated cast iron, bf seasons it with lawry's salt. He lets them brown in the cast iron to get those beautiful grill marks, then places the iron skillet in the oven to be baked to perfection, medium rare. (Mine is medium since I can't handle medium rare... that's just too rare for me).

This was our lunch. All meat. :) The sauce is part ketchup, part AI sauce. Goes great with fries too! Imagine Homer drooling, because that's what's happening right now for all meat lovers. mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Cross Rib Steaks n Veggies

 Basically, just take your thin steak pieces and lightly cover with lawry's salt on both sides and place in iron skillet.

 Cook it however you like.

 For easy chomping, slice the steaks

 Add broccoli. We never seem to have other kinds of veggies in the fridge....

Plate and chomp chomp chomp on such savory deliciousness!