Succulent Bovine Entres

Originally posted May 25, 2005

Title: Steak with Mushroom Wine Sauce or just plain grilled steak

Description:
Red wine sauce with mushrooms over steak. Be flamboyant (not gay)....toss stuff around and make flames when you pour the wine......(Please have a fire extinguisher at hand before you attempt)......look like you know what you are doing. Chicks dig it. And if you are a chick.....you showed up, that's good enough.

Ingredients:
Your choice of steak. Please, don't even bother if you are going to use a round steak. Shame on you, go back to the store you dumbass. Get something with good marbling. T-Bone is a pretty good bovine morsel. Salt and pepper both sides. Yeah, that's all. If you are grilling, please stop here and go to the grill and disregard the rest of this post*.

2 pats Butter/margarine
2 cloves garlic chopped
small package of fresh mushrooms cut in quarters
salt (kosher is best) and pepper (fresh ground) to taste
half cup of red wine (no skrew top, no rose', and no, Garden Deluxe is not a wine) Burgundy is excellent
2 tablespoons flour


Directions:
Let's say we have two t-bones.

Heat a non non-stick skillet (sorry Carmen) on High and add about 2 tablespoons of veg. oil to coat the bottom of pan (it will smoke a little) then add the steaks and do not touch them for at least one minute and sear the other side the same way. Cover, reduce to medium heat, and heat to desired doneness. 140F med rare but no more than that. Pink, Ohhhhh yeeeaaaahh.
Remove steaks and let rest under some foil.
Your pan should have some cooked on debris. That's good. Add some butter and add the mushrooms and toss around occasionally for about a minute and a half. Add the garlic and cook for about another minute and then add the red wine and bring to a simmer and reduce to about 2/3 and all the alcohol is cooked out. Don't be bummed there's still more in the bottle. Add a little of the flour to thicken. Add water to thin if you need to. Use a wisk to get out the lumps and remove from the heat. It's essentially a wine gravy with mushrooms in it. Pour over or next to the steak.

I like to serve this with saute'ed asparagas spears sprinkled with a little parmasean cheese.

Try this for Valentine's Day or anyday.

Number Of Servings:2

Preparation Time:20 min

*Grill to 140F, turn only ONCE at about 4min per side.

Disclaimer: I am not a gourmet, I just blog that way. Hey, turn around and check the steak!!!

PLEASE HAVE A SAFE AND FUN MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND! PLEASE, DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.