Mother’s Day Steak Dinner

Made my wonderful wife steak and a romaine wedge salad.

Prime NY Strip:
– Salt, Pepper, smoked paprika
– Cooked Med Rare

Mash Potatoes
– Gold Potatoes
– Boursin Herb Cheese
– Butter
– Milk
– Bacon drippings (from bacon baked below)
– salt and pepper

Mushroom Cream Sauce:
– Steak pan drippings
– mushrooms
– kept garlic and rosemary in pan after basted steak
– more butter
– half and half cream
– 1 tbsp flour
– Cajun seasoning

Romaine Wedge Salad:
– Blue Cheese Dressing
– Crispy bacon – peppered the bacon, baked in oven at 375F for 13 mins
– Marinated Cherry Toms: tossed in olive oil, sweet balsamic syrup, Italian seasoning, and salt (chilled in fridge for 1 hour)
– Pickled Onion – Boiled 1 cup apple cider vinegar and 1 cup sugar. Poured over thin sliced red onion, and chilled in fridge
– Crushed Parmesan crusted garlic bread – left over Parmesan garlic bread from night before. Crushed the bread in a bag and used it as breaded crouton

What a lovely meal, hope she loved it!