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Steak, roasted potatoes and a wedge salad |
There's been some serious
beef recalls
lately and it's kind of scary. I wanted to make a meatball dish for
Thanksgiving this coming Monday, but decided against it...'cause you
know...e.coli poisoning kind of really sucks. And feeding it to over a
dozen people would suck even more! It was just a precaution, since there
seems to be an expanded list every couple of days.
Grossssss!!
But
then here I am cooking up strip-loin steak for dinner that I did
not
buy from the local interdependently run butcher. Actually, it's from
Walmart. Guys, it's not that scary. Well,
I'm not that scared, heh heh. I bought it a couple weeks ago and it
hasn't showed up on the recall list. I've scoured every single link on
that site!
Lets hope it never shows up, as it's too late. I ate this slab of beefy
goodness tonight and it was super tasty, dispite my cooking it a couple
minutes longer than usual, resulting in a pretty darn well done steak. I
did that on purpose. I normally like my steaks medium/medium rare. By
cooking it well done, it made me feel a tad...better? I wasn't really
that concerned to begin with...or was I. Subconsciously perhaps?
Now I'm just ranting!
The important thing is, the steak was still ridiculously tender, juicy and flavourful. Oh, and I am not sick. *knock on wood* ;)
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Marinade ingredients! Olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, (low sodium) soy, lemon juice and black pepper |
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Doesn't it look good? |
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Douse liberally with Worcestershire sauce |
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Following with a good amount of soy. |
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Squeeze a quarter of a lemon on top |
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Sprinkle with black pepper. Whatever amount suits you. |
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Drizzle some olive oil on top and smush it all around! |
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Flip over and repeat. I just did everything on the try it came in. I didn't want to wash many dishes...can you tell? |
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My potatoes were starter to grow eyes...so they became the official starch/carb for dinner.
There's a mix of baby and regular. I picked out the little ones. Mm. |
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I made a glass of blueberry and banana smoothy white the tater's roasted away in a 400F oven. |
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I sweetened it with honey. So good! Plus, the blueberries give it a pretty colour. Extra good! |
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Did I mention that the potatoes had like, 8 cloves of minced garlic on them?
And that I added a dash of bacon ranch dressing to them before roasting? Oh and that I love garlic? |
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Since I love garlic (as does my family) I sprinkled a little bit of fried garlic on top. It sealed the deal. |
P.S. I didn't make that dried garlic stuff. It gets purchased at the store- the Asian grocery store.
P.P.S. I have 7 more packs of strip-loin in the chest freezer. No, I didn't pay full price for them. Yes, I paid about $5 a pack. Yes, I price-matched and yes, I like saving money. :D