How to Make A Great Steak!!! And Recipe Linky

Well, I have some news....  This news may effect the blog a bit so I thought I would warn you...

I'm Pregnant!

This is very exciting news to me, BUT this also means I have a love / hate relationship with food at the moment!   Explanation: I must eat about every other hour, and if I am not on my pills, i don't keep anything down, and Saltine crackers are now a staple.  Yeah, I know stellar nutritional value in those saltines.  

Looking at the computer screen kinda makes me sick too.  So, we are going to have to get creative to keep this blog running.  Which means today, I am reposting a post from last February(09), when no one was reading this blog anyway.  And!,... this is one of my favorite recipes ever, and it just happened to be one of my pregnant cravings last time, so that seems appropriate.  I hope you don't mind me sharing this, I promise, if you are a steak person, you will like this recipe!... (Here is the old post)

Anyway, what does every crazy pregnant woman crave?

Pickles?

Pickles and Ice Cream?

Well that is just not for me, what do I want?

A good steak!

(hence my lunch....I made that!)

I am talking Texas Roadhouse Top Sirloin, medium -OR- Hamilton's in Logan, Utah my heart goes out to you! I still miss you and your 2 for $25.00 (including two meals, 2 drinks and 2 deserts)... I am not so much into Fillet minon- it's just not my thing, give me a Top Sirloin any day. Maybe Texas is the right state for me after all.

For today, all I have been thinking about is steak!

Maybe I need more iron? But then what made it worse? I watched Top Chef, on Hulu. One of the guys made steak, and some other person made grits, and my heart was set on nothing else. I could accomplish nothing. I have no leftovers that I want to eat. I don't really care for homemade sandwiches, (very often)... So I caved. I made a 5 minute run to Wally-world here are the results.

(And the second best part? I have left overs, so when I am hungry in 2 hours I can eat it again!!)

The end!

This was a really easy to make meal and only took 10 minutes.

• Preheat oven to 350
• Start water boiling for grits
• Begin heating skillet Med high. (make sure to use a skillet that can be transferred to the oven)

Add grits to boiling water and a pinch of salt. Set timer 5-6 minutes, you will occasionally be stirring this, but that is about it. Remove from heat when done.

Steak Instructions:

• Place steak between wax paper and pound with a meat mallet -not to thin it out, but just to tenderize
• When skillet is hot add 1 Tbls Butter, let brown slightly, add steak.
•  Cook 3 minutes on one side, While cooking slice mushrooms (to speed slicing I use an egg slicer), 
• Flip steak, add sliced mushrooms to skillet.  another three minutes on other side. Stir mushrooms occasionally. 

After both sides have cooked, insert a meat thermometer into center and place skillet with steak and mushrooms into your preheated oven. Watch till center is the right temp. (Rare 140, Medium 160, and well 170)

While meat is in oven, add a wedge or two of laughing cow cheese (or cream cheese) to prepared grits (I prepared 1 cup of grits and used one wedge), mound in center of plate, 

Remove steak from oven when it has reached desired done-ness and place on grits, add mushrooms and any juice from the pan onto the top of it all!

Enjoy!