For Matthew’s birthday, I wanted to have a special dinner. Like most mom’s, I wanted to make his favorite food and have his favorite cake. I served potatoes cheese casserole and steak.  Now, the steak I just happened to have found in my freezer when I was cleaning it out last week (it was still in there from last summer when we were grilling out a lot.) 

Everyone loved the way these steaks tasted, so I thought I would share this with you and for myself also – I want to remember this. 

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I took the steak out in the morning, put it in water (enclosed in the wrapping paper) to dethaw.   I had to leave the house around 2:00 p.m. (and the party was to be at 4:30 p.m.) so before I left, I pulled the steak out of the water, and put it in a small Pyrex dish.  I poured red wine all over it (I didn’t measure, just tried to soak it. Maybe 2 cups?) 

When I came home and it was time to start grilling, I wiped the steak a second time in the wine, put Lawry’s seasoned salt and pepper on it, then threw it on the grill.  I browned both sides, and then brought it in.

Now, my family loves all meat well-done.  This means, “no pink.”   I had been told by a woman that I had lunch with about a month ago, that she had watched a gourmet cooking show on t.v. and that she learned the way to cook a steak “just right,” like a gourmet restaurant would do, is to brown the steak on the grill, then bring it in and put it in the oven to finish cooking.  She raved about how excellent her steaks turned out when she did this.  I made a mental note of this, and this time, when I was grilling steak, decided to do the same.  I took the steak that had been browned on both sides by the charcoal grill to the oven for about 20 minutes at 350.   

This was a success – my married children and daughter-in-law were all asking me how I made the steak.  They raved about it and wanted to know step-by-step how I had prepared this steak. 

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(Here's the recipe for the casserole I served with the steak.)

Some pictures from a weekend around here: .

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.This is Magic, our little colt. He's the star of our ranch.

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