Steak Dinner at Home

Steak with seasoned potatoes and vegetables

For our date night I decided to do a steak dinner at home.  It's pretty easy to make a great steak diner at home in under 30 minutes.  Here's all I did.

The steak: The night before I marinated the steak  in a roasted red pepper, sea salt, black pepper, and garlic marinade.  When it was time to cook it, I broke out the stove top grill pan and heated it up with a little olive oil to increase the flavour.   Once the pan was extremely hot, I placed the steak in the pan and grilled it until the juices from the steak started to come from the top.  Then I did a quarter turn to give the grill marks, waited 5 minutes and then flipped it.  I repeated the process on the  other side.  To cook to well done, it only took 20 minutes. Once it was done but still on the grill, I topped it with a teaspoon of butter to help moisten the steak and reanimate the flavour.

The sides: I simply sautéed some vegetables and baked some seasoned potatoes.  For the seasoned potatoes:  cut potatoes into cubes and season with a mix of garlic powder, salt, parsley, thyme.  Put the potatoes in a baking dish with a quarter cup of water and a teaspoon of butter. Bake covered for 20 minutes.  Start the seasoned potatoes before you put the steak on the grill.