December 1, 2012 Dinner - Steak and Mushrooms, Potatoes and Salad

December 1, 2012 Dinner - Steak and Mushrooms, Potatoes and Salad

We worked on Saturday, so when we got home we did not want to fix a big meal.  We had bought a package of boneless rib eye steaks at Costco ($7.99/lb.) on Friday evening that was still unfrozen, so we took out two nice ones.  I also had purchased a bag of teeny weeny fingerling potatoes at Trader Joe’s on Thursday.   We also had a fresh container of butter lettuce with the roots on that we had purchased at Costco, so we decided to make a dinner that I must have eaten a 1000 times in my youth, steak, potatoes and salad.  Suzette said , “Let’s sauté some mushrooms, so I got out the last of the white beech mushrooms, the fresh shitake and the baby portabella mushrooms and sliced and sautéed about two cups of them.

I made vinaigrette dressing for the salad with the last two little sprigs of tarragon from our garden, tarragon wine vinegar and olive oil, ½ tsp. of German deli mustard and one smashed clove of garlic.  I then chopped up two large sprigs of parsley from our garden and about seven or eight chive stalks from the plant in the dining room while Suzette boiled the potatoes and grilled the steaks.  I tore the lettuce and spun it and we threw it in the large salad bowl with slices of palm hearts and Roma tomatoes. When the steaks were cooked we let them sit until Willy arrived home and then we cut them up and served them with potatoes garnished with chives and parsley and salad.  I fetched a bottle of Wellington Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon but it was not as delicious as their single vineyard cabs.    

Bon Appètit