Steak Take Two

The Creation: 

Steak sandwich with caramelized onions and sauteed mushrooms, served alongside spicy greens and shoestring fries with the delectable, one and only Manhattan Special Espresso Coffee Soda

The sirloin was, obviously, too good to let a morsel go to waste, so I used my handy, aforementioned Lil Beni to ultra-thinly slice the steak onto a toasted baguette graced with (also Beni-fied) onions that I slowly caramelized and some buttery mushrooms.

I also had quite a bit of writing to do after dinner, so as good as a fatty beer would have been with this, I opted instead for pure caffeine in the form of a Manhattan Special. Mm, mmm, yessir.

And! I gave the mustard seed oil my first go-around! Wowwee. That business is *spicy* like, I don't know... like some serious mustard seeds were in there or something. Gee whiz. Serious mustard. Which gave the greens a pungent kick that would be really nice if you really loved spicy mustard. I, however, do not. So with each healthy bite I tried to cover the flavor with a bigger bite of marrow-butter-juiced steak sandwich. Good thing that steak was so, so, so good.

My next new ingredient on the agenda: the harissa. I bought some green chorizo (literally green-colored due to the abundance of cilantro, parsley and jalapeno in it!) after my Sourdough Bread-Making Class at The Brooklyn Kitchen tonight, and I plan to serve the pan-sauteed chorizo with the harissa! Stay tuned...

Free Marrow Butter. Die.

Yesterday was The Perfect Day. It started with bagels in the park and a nap in the sunshine. Then we drank gin & tonics on the front, sunny bench at Beco while Napoleon lounged beneath us in the shade. Then we got ice cream cones before picking up some meats and cheeses from the wonderful people at Baba and fresh veggies at To the World Farm.

Then we got a 2.5 pound sirloin steak from The Meat Hook where the incredible Tom Mylan threw in a free knob of marrow butter. Marrow Butter. I didn't know the perfect day could get more perfect.

Don't you want to die and go to heaven having seen this picture?

Josiah and I had Sarah over for grilled steaks below the stars on the still-65-degree roof. To be fair, none of this meal came from leftover ingredients except for the ginger and scallions that went into the salad dressing, but do we care? No. Not when you are eating MARROW BUTTER all over a GIANT SIRLOIN STEAK.

We also used my insanely special, new 'Lil Beni' mandolin to ultra-thinly slice parsnips, onions and potato into a gorgeous fried dish. For a little small bit of "healthiness" we had a giant salad of spicy mixed greens with soy-sauce fried oyster and shitake mushrooms and ginger-scallion vinaigrette. Pure delight. See below. 1000 bonus point to Josie for the absolutely perfect medium-rare temperature.

Witness Sarah licking the knife.