Strip Loin Steak and Potatoes

Strip Loin Steak and Potatoes

With green beans and an iceberg wedge covered in blue cheese dressing. The steak was done in a cast iron pan with lots of pepper, bit of salt, bit of butter. Wonderful!

ingredients:

striploin steaks
salt
pepper
butter

handful fingerling potatoes, or small potatoes
handful of green beans
iceberg lettuce
blue cheese
mayo
vinegar

canola oil

salt
pepper
butter

directions:

Steak:

1. Take your steaks at room temperature, and generously sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper. This seasoning is gonna help to form a crust on the steak. Fry the steak in a hot cast iron pan to get a good sear. After you flip the steak you can put some butter on top of the steak. This will help it from sticking to the pan, and help it cook, and give it more flavour.

2. Use a meat thermometer, or touch the steak. When you start to feel less give when you press down into the steak it means it's a little cooked through. I would recommend medium rare myself. If you want it well done (which some crazy people do), if you push down and find little give its cooked through.

Potatoes:

1. Roast potatoes in the oven with salt, pepper, and a little oil for 20 minutes at 400 degrees F.

Beans:

1. Steam some green beans and blanch them in ice water to stop the cooking process. This will keep them from getting overcooked and keep their bright green colour. Then toss them in some melted butter.

Lettuce:

1. Cut a wedge of iceberg lettuce. About 1/4 of a head of lettuce. Mix mayonnaise, vinegar, crumbled blue cheese, salt, and pepper together for a dressing. Drizzle on top of the wedge.

Pear, Blue Cheese, Caramelized Onions, Prosciutto, Walnuts, Mozzarella Cheese Pizza with Arugula Salad

Pear, Blue Cheese, Caramelized Onions, Prosciutto, Walnuts, Mozzarella Cheese Pizza 
with Arugula Salad

This is possibly the best pizza I have ever had. Pear is one of the most underrated fruits, and tastes amazing on pizza. If you have never tried it before, you should! And this pizza recipe is your chance.

ingredients:

dough
blue cheese
caramelized onion
prosciutto
walnuts
mozzarella
pear
olive oil
pepper
cornmeal
arugula

directions:

pizza dough:

1. Fill a mixing bowl with 1-1 and 1/4 cups of warm water in a bowl.

2. Add 1 tbsp of active dry yeast. Add 1 tbsp of brown sugar, or white sugar if you feel the yeast is old. It will help activate the yeast and give it something to "eat". Let stand for about 10 minutes until white frothy bubbles are on top. Add in 1 tbsp of oil (though probably optional) and 1/2-1 tsp of salt.

3. Mix in 3 cups of flour. You can add more flour if its too sticky. Kneed dough on a flat surface covered with flour. Add more flour to the surface as needed. Maybe kneed for at least 10-15 minutes. Until the dough no longer sticks together on your hand.

4. Form the dough into a ball and coat with olive oil. Put in a covered container in a warm place. Warm is key. I sometimes run the oven for a little while, and then turn the oven off and put it in a pot. Let it sit for at least one hour. Two hours works too. The Longer the better. The dough should double in size.

5. Punch the dough, and cut in half. This pizza recipe will make two pizzas.

6. Oil a pizza pan with butter or margarine. And dust it with cornmeal. The cornmeal will adhere to the grease. And then spread out the dough on the pan.

7. Top pizza with olive oil, pepper, mozzarella cheese, sliced pear, prosciutto, walnuts, caramelized onions, and crumbled blue cheese. Cook in an oven at 400 F for about 30 minutes. Or until the top gets golden brown.

8. Eat with a arugula salad, or top the pizza with arugula after it comes out of the oven.