Vietnamese Sugar Steak
Sugar is in the recipe’s name, but it’s balanced by the fish sauce, lime juice, and garlic in the marinade for this skirt steak, which is seared to medium-rare in a cast iron skillet and then thinly sliced. Serve with garlic broccolini and rice.
Pressure Cooker Pepper Steak
Strips of flat-iron steak and chunks of bell pepper and onions are seasoned with garlic, ginger, Hoisin sauce, soy sauce, and sesame oil, and cooked in the pressure cooker for homemade Chinese food on a weeknight.
Grammy’s Porcupine Balls
My grandmother had her hands full raising six kids in the 1950s and ’60s, so a lot of her cooking was very simple. (Though her spaghetti sauce recipe is a family favorite.) Dad also remembers her making these meatballs, studded with rice and served with a simple tomato sauce.
Guy’s Sheet Pan Mini Meat Loaves & Roasted Veggies
Guy did some solo parenting while I was on a recent business trip, and he had zero problems getting dinner on the table. For this dish, he made four mini meat loaves seasoned with barbecue sauce and surrounded by broccoli, halved cherry tomatoes, sliced mushrooms, and green beans.
Sicilian-Style Grilled Steak
We celebrated the end of a long week with this fresh, flavorful, garlicky steak. You start by blending garlic and salt into a paste, and then add fresh herbs, olive oil, red pepper flakes, and lemon juice. This sauce is called a salmoriglio – use as a marinade and then serve it over the sliced grilled steak.
Serve with roasted brussels sprouts or roasted broccoli, and Meiomi Pinot noir.
Teriyaki Meatballs
The meat mixture from my mom’s teriyaki burgers is delicious formed into meatballs, browned, and then cooked in a teriyaki sauce. Serve with brown rice.
Slow-Cooker Barbacoa Beef
This shredded beef, slow cooked with chipotle peppers, cilantro, red onion, garlic, ground cloves, and lime juice, feeds a crowd.
Asian Boneless Beef Short Ribs
These short ribs, seasoned with garlic, ginger, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, sherry, and scallions and cooked in the pressure cooker, are incredibly tender and flavorful.
Guy’s Grilled Beef Tenderloin
If you’re planning a special dinner, you can’t do any better than this delicious beef tenderloin. Follow these simple instructions and use a meat thermometer, and the garlic herb rub, decadent cut of meat, and your grill will do the rest.
Serve with a side salad and garlic mashed potatoes.
Cast Iron Steaks
We’re without a grill this summer and turned to the cast iron skillet to prepare steaks. It’s a simple (but smokey!) process that made the best steaks we’d had in awhile.