Good Eats!

My sister gave me a subscription to Everyday Food for Christmas....here are few reasons I love it:

• It is smaller than normal recipe magazines...thus not taking up library size space!
• It has recipes that appear to have that Martha Stewartesque quality to them...but they (most of the time) use items that we have already or that we don't have to set out on a four day journey to locate.
• It is gives you "how to's" for things you are "supposed" to know how to do---like cutting an avocado without turning it into mush...good stuff like that

I was hoping to link this recipe....but they have not posted the May magazine on-line....so copy write hounds out there...all props are going to M.S. herself....Sorry to all the vegetarians out there....sometimes a good steak is just that good!

Citrus Steak Salad

Enjoyed with a bottle of Riparosso Illuminati

(Serves 4)

4 Strip Steaks (4-6oz. each)

Coarse salt and ground pepper

2 navel oranges, peel and pith removed

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 tablespoons honey

1 teaspoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger (okay...so I left this out!)

1 head of romaine lettuce, cored (or...get a bag o'salad!...Sorry Martha!)

1 small red onion, halved and thinly sliced

4 carrots cut into matchsticks

1. We (which I mean Chris) grilled the steaks outside on the gas grill....season steaks with salt and pepper. Once grilled, cut them into thin slices (crosswise).

2. Cut oranges to release segments (doesn't it sound like you are freeing hostages!) (Again...sorry Martha). Squeeze remaining membranes to release 2 tablespoons juice, whisk in oil, honey and ginger. Season with salt and pepper. Add lettuce, onion, carrots and orange segments, toss to combine. Top salad with steak. Enjoy...it was very yummy especially with a bottle of red wine!