K said, "I feel like having steak for dinner." We had (made roughly in that order)
A - Royal Blue Mash
B - Mint Peas
C - Spanish Spiced Steak
D - Tossed Salad (nope, no scrambled eggs)
A - ROYAL BLUE MASH 1. Royal blue potatoes are so yummy and make a creamy yellow mash! 2. Rinse and cut into wedges, skins on cos i like the more rustic
effect. Also, as i was cutting i was wondering if i should grill them
but aiya today can feel a sore throat forming so decided not to. 3. Place wedges in large microwave pot preferably with steaming basket
(add a large spash of water to create steam), cover and M/W for 10
minutes. [Meanwhile, prepare salad] 4. Remove steaming basket, carefully transfer very hot potatoes into
m/w pot, mash potatoes in pot with my beautiful chunky steel potato
masher, skins and all. 5. This time i added thick cream, butter, pepper, salt. Aiya forgot to
add parsley. 6. Keep covered warm till ready to serve dolloped onto large flat
plates (love my white Corelles).
B - MINT PEAS 1. Defrost frozen peas in water. Drain.
2. K gets double portion (he loves peas!) served in a ramekin on his plate.
3. D gets half portion (he doesn't love peas but they will look pretty
and green on the plate next to the steak and potatoes :)
4. Mine goes into my mega salad.
C - SPANISH SPICED STEAK 1. In large metal bowl, coat 1/2 inch steaks with spanish spice mix
and olive oil. Man! This spice mix i got from Limes in Myaree adds
magic to everything, soups, salads, steaks, etc etc. And the blade
steak was on sale today $6.99/kg.
2. In large flat nonstick fry pan on med-hi flame (no need to oil pan
cos you have already oiled the steaks), sear steaks to desired
doneness. For us, 1.5 minute on each side sufficed. "Medium rare
please," says K.
3. Place in loosely covered glass bowl to rest (from my new
rectangular set *glee*).
4. Keep drippings in pan for shrooms in salad from next recipe.
D - TOSSED SALAD [During the 10 minutes while waiting for potatoes to cook, in between
cooking steak]
1. In large salad bowl, throw in mixed salad leaves, grape tomatoes
(my fav!), pumpkin seeds (another fav!).
2. K doesnt eat tomatoes but he can pick them out later ;)
3. Slice two bowls/cups of buttom shrooms. One portion gets cooked in
the steak drippings and added to the salad for the boys who may say
"eeeww" to too much raw shrooms.
4. Toss in Caesar Salad Dressing, remove salad portions for the boys
(place on their plates).
5. Then make the REAL yummy mega salad for myself.
6. Add beetroot and raw shrooms and peas. Toss toss. I have my steak
salad in a large bowl (set from Target with psychedelic flowers). At the table, slice juicy pink slivers of steak on my new wooden IKEA
chopping board to add to my yummy mega salad.
All right, I'll do the same for the boys as well. D picks an explosive
shiraz to go perfectly with the steak.
Leftover steak goes into next day's lunch - a sandwich for K and
(guess what!) another salad for me! D likes his Chinese rice+dishes
for lunch so no tapau for him today. Sorry, polished off the grub so fast didnt take any pics! We'll just
have to do this again some time :) P/S "Aiya not enough carbo," says D. Supper was "haymee" instant
noodles with kangkong and prawns.
A - Royal Blue Mash
B - Mint Peas
C - Spanish Spiced Steak
D - Tossed Salad (nope, no scrambled eggs)
A - ROYAL BLUE MASH 1. Royal blue potatoes are so yummy and make a creamy yellow mash! 2. Rinse and cut into wedges, skins on cos i like the more rustic
effect. Also, as i was cutting i was wondering if i should grill them
but aiya today can feel a sore throat forming so decided not to. 3. Place wedges in large microwave pot preferably with steaming basket
(add a large spash of water to create steam), cover and M/W for 10
minutes. [Meanwhile, prepare salad] 4. Remove steaming basket, carefully transfer very hot potatoes into
m/w pot, mash potatoes in pot with my beautiful chunky steel potato
masher, skins and all. 5. This time i added thick cream, butter, pepper, salt. Aiya forgot to
add parsley. 6. Keep covered warm till ready to serve dolloped onto large flat
plates (love my white Corelles).
B - MINT PEAS 1. Defrost frozen peas in water. Drain.
2. K gets double portion (he loves peas!) served in a ramekin on his plate.
3. D gets half portion (he doesn't love peas but they will look pretty
and green on the plate next to the steak and potatoes :)
4. Mine goes into my mega salad.
C - SPANISH SPICED STEAK 1. In large metal bowl, coat 1/2 inch steaks with spanish spice mix
and olive oil. Man! This spice mix i got from Limes in Myaree adds
magic to everything, soups, salads, steaks, etc etc. And the blade
steak was on sale today $6.99/kg.
2. In large flat nonstick fry pan on med-hi flame (no need to oil pan
cos you have already oiled the steaks), sear steaks to desired
doneness. For us, 1.5 minute on each side sufficed. "Medium rare
please," says K.
3. Place in loosely covered glass bowl to rest (from my new
rectangular set *glee*).
4. Keep drippings in pan for shrooms in salad from next recipe.
D - TOSSED SALAD [During the 10 minutes while waiting for potatoes to cook, in between
cooking steak]
1. In large salad bowl, throw in mixed salad leaves, grape tomatoes
(my fav!), pumpkin seeds (another fav!).
2. K doesnt eat tomatoes but he can pick them out later ;)
3. Slice two bowls/cups of buttom shrooms. One portion gets cooked in
the steak drippings and added to the salad for the boys who may say
"eeeww" to too much raw shrooms.
4. Toss in Caesar Salad Dressing, remove salad portions for the boys
(place on their plates).
5. Then make the REAL yummy mega salad for myself.
6. Add beetroot and raw shrooms and peas. Toss toss. I have my steak
salad in a large bowl (set from Target with psychedelic flowers). At the table, slice juicy pink slivers of steak on my new wooden IKEA
chopping board to add to my yummy mega salad.
All right, I'll do the same for the boys as well. D picks an explosive
shiraz to go perfectly with the steak.
Leftover steak goes into next day's lunch - a sandwich for K and
(guess what!) another salad for me! D likes his Chinese rice+dishes
for lunch so no tapau for him today. Sorry, polished off the grub so fast didnt take any pics! We'll just
have to do this again some time :) P/S "Aiya not enough carbo," says D. Supper was "haymee" instant
noodles with kangkong and prawns.
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