Salt. Pepper. A little oil rubbed on the surface. The highest heat you can muster. Then a few minutes to rest before cutting in. That's my recipe for a good steak.
This lovely ribeye cost $33 at Whole Foods Market and weighed in at about 20 ounces. My wife and I managed to polish off slightly more than half of it, while our daughter ate a box of fried tofu and curried vegetables from the market's hot bar.
I gnawed on the leftover steak over the next couple of days before relinquishing the bone to our dog. It has been picked clean and now resides on the floor of our den.
We used to eat steak more frequently when this lovely child was the die-hard carnivore in the family. Now she is a teenager with strong (and certainly not unfounded) feelings about the treatment of animals raised for food. She has become a vegetarian, she says, until she can sort out her belief system.
Now that we've lost her as an excuse to indulge in steak, we do so on our own once a month or so. We also eat a lot of lentils. Whole lotta lentils.
Does anyone else cook for vegetarian kids? Are there tricks?
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