Distinctive Dinners: Saturday Night Special
Summer Tomato and Pepper Salad | Porcini Mushrooms with Blue Cheese | Grilled T-bone Steak | Strawberries and Hot Fudge
Summer Tomato and Pepper Salad
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 4 |
Category: | Salad |
Meal: | Saturday Night Special (Distinctive Dinners) |
4 | medium | tomatoes, fresh |
1 | medium | pepper, red |
1 | medium | pepper, green |
0.125 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
0.5 | tsp | salt, kosher |
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Cut tomatoes and peppers into bite size pieces, add salt and pepper and let sit for 1 hour.
Porcini Mushrooms with Blue Cheese
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 6 |
Category: | Vegetables |
Meal: | Saturday Night Special (Distinctive Dinners) |
3 | Tb | oil, olive |
12 | oz | mushrooms, porcini |
3 | oz | cheese, blue |
0.5 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
0.5 | tsp | parsley, flakes |
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Heat oil in pan, add mushrooms and cook until just tender. Add blue cheese, toss to melt. Add pepper and parsley flakes. Serve
Great over grilled steak.
Grilled T-bone Steak
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 4 |
Category: | Beef Entrée |
Meal: | Saturday Night Special (Distinctive Dinners) |
3 | lb | steak, t-bone |
1 | Tb | oil, olive |
1 | tsp | garlic powder |
1 | Tb | pepper, fresh cracked |
1 | Tb | salt, kosher |
1 | medium | lemons |
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The keys here are to have the fire very hot and the steaks at least 1 thick. Have the steaks at room temperature, brush olive oil on both sides of steaks, add pepper, salt and garlic powder. Grill about 5 minutes on one side and 4 on the other. (depending on how you like your steak and the thickness of the steaks) remove steak from grill and let sit for 10 minutes. It will finish cooking on the platter; so take it off just before it is done as you would like. Squeeze lemon onto each steak.
Note: The general rule of thumb for medium rare is 1 minute per 1/4 inch thickness per side. A 2 inch thick steak would take 8 minutes per side.
Strawberries and Hot Fudge
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 6 |
Category: | Cooking for the Kids |
Meal: | Saturday Night Special (Distinctive Dinners) |
1 | qt | strawberries, whole |
1 | recipe | Hot Fudge Sauce |
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Clean berries, heat hot fudge sauce; place hot fudge in container and surround with berries.
Note: Be sure to add the Hot fudge sauce recipe to your shopping list.