Salad. Don't laugh. There's a half-pound of thinly-sliced rare New York strip in there, and it's what you do when you get a screaming deal on a two-pack of prime and the missus just won't eat red meat off the grill the way God intended.
Ingredients:
The first seven items are the dressing/marinade. Whisk them together, and use half as a marinade if you've got a day to wait before you grill. If not, say fuck it and enjoy the extra dressing. If you do marinade, toss the first half when you go to grill and make do with the second as dressing.
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme or 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon tarragon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 1 1 lb. beef steak - nothing too cheap, grilled and then very thinly sliced across the grain
- Salad greens - you choose, I like romaine and iceberg
- Tomatoes - as you wish, they're never any better than they are as I type this now
- 1/4-1/2 medium red onion, thinly sliced
- 4 radishes, thinly sliced - very, very much optional
- 1 medium ripe avocado, peeled and thinly sliced
- Dried cranberries and/or candied pecans - optional froo-froo touch to taste if you need the hint of sweetness
- Crumbled blue cheese and additional ground pepper, to taste
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