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If you’re entertaining for Independence Day, I have a recipe to make your life a lot easier. Skip the traditional hamburgers and hot dogs and try this menu:
By marinating the steak a day or two in advance and making the salads which take just minutes to prepare, you’re time will be free to enjoy 4th of July festivities.
What’s great about this menu is that it covers all the basics- steaks, potatoes, pasta. So, when guests ask, “what can I bring?” tell them to bring easy items like fruit or drinks.
If you’re not entertaining, it’s the perfect combination for just you and the family- I know- because this is what we had for dinner this past Saturday night and it was delicious….tasted like summer.
Toni’s4thofJulyMenu
Ingredients
Flank Steak 3-4 lbs, cut into 2-inch strips against the grain
Dijon Mustard -1/2 bottle
Soy Sauce- a few shakes
Dice potatoes into quarters
Red Wine Vinegar- about 1/3 cup
Fresh or Dried Oregano & Basil
Petite Red, White & Blue (purple, actually- but close enough) Potatoes (I found the perfect ones at Trader Joe’s), cleaned and quartered
Blue Cheese Crumbles- 1 small container
Sour Cream- 1 cup
Cavatappi Pasta- 1 lb
Zucchini & Squash- 1 each, diced into half-chunks
Grape Tomatoes- 1 pint
Dice zucchini and squash into halves
Where I got my potato salad inspiration- basically, I think making traditional potato salad is a ton of work. You have to peel, cook and dice potatoes and eggs, dice potatoes, etc. So, unless my mom is here to make it (she makes a great potato salad), then I want to find an easier alternative.
I was shopping in Trader Joe’s and spotted these miniature potatoes and thought how perfect they would be in a salad. I wanted to make it lighter, without mayonnaise, so I decided to try sour cream. With some blue cheese to add to my “red, white and blue” theme, this potato salad came out better than I’d hoped.
Directions
Steak
A day or two in advance, combine mustard, soy sauce and vinegar in a bowl or casserole pan with about a half cup of olive or canola oil; mix well
Season steak with salt, pepper, basil and oregano
Dip steak into marinade and coat evenly
Place steak in zip-top baggie and pour remaining marinade in; seal tightly and place in the refrigerator on a plate or platter to marinate overnight
Potato Salad (can be made a day in advance)
Place oven on Broil
Place potato chunks onto baking sheet
Drizzle olive oil over the top and sprinkle with some salt; use your hand to toss
Broil until potatoes are brown, approximately 35 minutes
Transfer to mixing bowl
Add blue cheese and sour cream; toss
Pasta Salad (can be made a day or two in advance)
Put zucchini and squash slices next to potatoes to Broil until brown, approximately 20 minutes
Boil pasta in salted water until tender; drain and rinse under cool water
Add vegetables to pasta
Drizzle with olive oil; toss
When it’s time to eat, just grill steak- or hand it off to the hubby to grill like I do.
Happy 4th of July!
If you’re looking for a summer beverage for 4th of July party, try my Summer Sangria!
Summer Sangria from Toni Spilsbury The Organized Cook
And, for the absolute most adorable place setting, check out this Patriotic Place Setting design by Social Couture.
I know I’ve created an easy Father’s Day recipe when I can get away with using only one pan. In fact, in exactly 8 minutes on YouTube, I demonstrate how to make my Open-Face Steak & Egg Sandwich with Pan Gravy using only 5 ingredients and 1 pan. The gravy recipe came straight from my grandmother.
Father's Day Breakfast Easy Recipe from The Organized Cook
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Open-Face Steak & Egg Sandwich with Pan Gravy
Ingredients
Thin-Sliced Steak
Steak, sliced thin
French bread, 1-inch slices
Eggs
Flour
Milk
Father's Day Breakfast Ingredients
Directions
Season steak with salt & pepper
Place bread slices on plate
Heat a few tablespoons oil in medium non-stick skillet over medium-high heat
Cook steak, flipping once, until brown on both sides then transfer to bread slices
Fry eggs until medium then transfer atop bread and steak
Add a couple more tablespoons oil or butter to pan
Add flour and saute until flour browns (will look like peanut butter)
Very slowly pour milk into flour while whisking
Stir until desired consistency- add more milk if too thick or more flour if too thin- (you want the gravy in the pan to be slightly thinner than how you want it on the plate)
Serve gravy spooned over the top of sandwich
French bread slices topped with steak and egg
Gravy spooned over top of sandwich
If you’re looking for adorable Father’s Day cards to print yourself, check out free Printable Father’s Day cards from HGTV: (click on image)
So here’s the recipe and story about Steak Piazole.
Steak Piazole Recipe
Ingredients:
beef round sirloin tip steaks, thin- 4-5lbs
onion, white- 1 large, peeled and sliced into strips
green bell pepper- 1, sliced into strips
crushed tomatoes- 1 28oz. can
beef broth- 1 can
spaghetti pasta- 1½ lbs
Steak Staples:
• olive oil- a few tbspns
• minced garlic- 2 tbspns
• garlic salt
• dried oregano
• crushed red pepper flake (optional)
Spaghetti Staples:
• olive oil- ¼ cup
• minced garlic- 2 tbspns
• crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
My stepfather, “Skip” grew up in Connecticut in an Italian family. When he and my mom would visit me he often talked about his favorite steak dish that his mom- God rest her soul- cooked. Apparently, his mother never handed down her family-favorite recipe to anyone in the family.
So, I asked him to describe it the best he could, and then I got to work.
Directions:
The steak is extra tender when cooked in a slow cooker. Just follow skillet directions below using the slow cooker instead of the skillet on High for
6-7 hours.
Steak
1. Heat a few tablespoons of olive oil with minced garlic in large deep skillet over medium-high heat
2. Season steaks with garlic salt, oregano and a little crushed red pepper (optional depending on how spicy you want it); place into skillet, turning
each one until slightly brown on both sides then stack then on top of another if needed
3. Add onion slices, bell pepper slices, tomatoes and broth; bring to boil; cover and reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until steak is tender;
approximately 60 minutes; or cook in slow cooker on high for 6-7 hours
Spaghetti
4. Boil spaghetti pasta in salted water until tender; drain pasta reserving some (about ½ cup) of the cooking water in pan; return spaghetti to warm
pan and water; toss
5. Add to spaghetti: olive oil,minced garlic and red pepper flakes (optional) to taste; toss well
Serve steak individually over spaghetti
Steak Piazole from The Organized Cook
With absolutely no recipe to go by, I attempted re-create a dish I had never eaten. Everyone loved it and now I make it nearly every time they visit.
After seasoning and searing the steak with garlic, dried crushed peppers and olive oil, I leave it to simmer for hours in bell peppers, onions and tomatoes; the steak is so tender it flakes with a fork. Then I serve it with spaghetti. It’s the perfect dish for weekend company because it requires only minutes of my time to prepare and then I can leave it for half the day while I spend time with my guests.
Italian Salad from The Organized Cook
When I decided to include it in my Weekly Meal Plan System, I had to give it a name. “Steak with Peppers and Tomatoes”. Too stale. What would “Nonni” call it? An entirely new name for this recipe seemed fitting since it was entirely new to me. Skip threw out some names and we finally decided on “piazole”.
What’s a piazole?
It’s steak simmered in tomatoes and peppers after being seared with seasonings.
So, now you know. We’ll see what Wikipedia has to say about that.
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