Thursday, August 8, 2013

Grilled Steak and (Baked) French Fries

Tonight's dinner was a team effort. :) I worked night shift, so to say the least, I was pretty sleepy. Dylan (my wonderful husband) was taking his football official's exam. After that, Silas and I went to watch the basketball game he was coaching.  When we finally came home, we were hungry and tired. We wanted to eat something that required very little prep-time.

We keep seeing walmart commercials for their steak and produce. We happened to be there recently and we saw 4 flat iron steaks for $4. Ordinarily, we buy our steak at Publix, but we took advantage of the opportunity.

Here's what we used:
     4 flat iron steaks
     3 Medium Russet Potatoes or baking potatoes
     2 Tablespoons (ish) olive oil
     Spices (I like Seasoning Salt and Rosemary and Parsley) (or Garlic and Parmesan) whatever you have!
     White Mushrooms (you can use shitake or portabello mushrooms but white ones are only $1.50) :)
     1 Onion (I think we used vidalia onions)


Dylan fired up the grill (because that's what men like to do; I think it may be embedded in their DNA)
While I roughly chopped up some potatoes.

I preheated to oven to 450 F and grabbed a big bowl.

I put the potato "fry" slices into the bowl and drizzled olive oil and sprinkled the chosen spices. Don't under-salt the potatoes. These super porous "vegetables" really absorb the salt, so salt them well!

Meanwhile, also slice your onion and white button mushrooms
Place them in some tinfoil with about a tablespoon of butter.

This is what it will look like after about 15 min on the grill :-)
Perfectly tender and tasty

Then you have your steak...(This is after about 3min per side on the grill.)
Don't these flat irons look lonely?

I think they need some fries! Let your fries bake for 15 min, then flip them around and bake for another 5.
(for extra crispy fries, bake for 10 more min)


This is how it looked when we were all done!

So delicious, Naturally Gluten Free and super easy to make. The whole project took about 25 min



Friday, August 2, 2013