Sometimes, a girl just wants a good piece of……….. steak. 🙂 My favorite place to get good meat = Whole Foods or COSTCO.
Living in a condo, cooking a good steak is a challenge. BECAUSE THE FIRE ALARM IS SOOO SENSITIVE!! So included in this gallery are pictures of Stan fanning the beeping smoke detector. Thank goodness the fire department didn’t come. 2 pieces of steak/beef of choice (see for cuts http://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/typesofcuts.aspx) I used chuckFreshly ground pepper
Sea salt For the Zap Salsa (Zap means outrageous flavor in Thai.. The kind of flavor that makes your mouth water) 1 tangerine or orange
1 tomato or 5-6 grape tomatoes
Handful of chopped cilantro
1/2 small onion
1 lemon
1 thai bird chili
Salt to taste
Dash of fish sauce I use a grilling pan that can be found at Sur La Table. It’s awesome. See my previous posting for more information or visit http://www.surlatable.com There are some important rules to grilling or cooking meat. 1) make sure it is at room temperature before you put in on heat 2) Once it hits hot surface, leave it alone! Don’t play with it. Only move it when it’s ready to be flipped. So begin favoring it with just good ole’ salt and pepper. Be generous. I cooked mine @ medium. For your cooking preference, visit http://www.askthemeatman.com/beef_cooking_times.htm Flip once or twice, turn off the heat and let it cool. It will continue to cook for another 10 mins. It’s simply perfection. Make sure you cook your meat well…. You don’t want to get sicko! For the salsa, in a blender, put in your onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and tangerine. Please remove as much pulp and seeds as possible. Otherwise, you are going to get a grossly bitter salsa. You don’t want that. Add salt to taste, thai chili, lemon juice and a dash of fish sauce. Do not substitute with soy sauce, please please. Don’t put too much fish sauce in. Well…unless you’re Thai… Then.. Fish sauce it away!! This is a very satisfying dish. It just hits you right there… YEAH… RIGHT THERE. I wish I brought leftovers.
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My smoke detector goes off ALL the time. Pretty much anytime I want to broil something =0)
great lookin recipe.a mildly to completely unsafe suggestion: the first the thing i do when i move into a place is to deactivate the smoke detectors. been doing since i was in college, but for very different reasons then to be fair.broiling, blackening and a few other techniques are virtually impossible when contending with that incessant beeping and if the fire dept shows up you will have to split the food with them…