Today has been a pretty busy day, we got a great workout in at the gym, cleaned up the house, ran a few errands and made a steak house quality dinner for Mike’s dad for an early Fathers Day.
Jim always goes fishing for a week to a remote lake in Canada so we invited him over for a good steak dinner. We made a good mixed salad of spinach, arugula, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, nectarines and the leftover dressing from last night. The steaks were a good New York Strip from Kowalski’s Market at about $20 dollars a pound, these were steakhouse quality and I might even say better than what you might get out to eat for $60 dollars plus per steak. Mike grilled them for about 4 minutes a side and they were perfectly cooked. A little grilled asparagus on the side was the perfect accompaniment.
Check out Clifford trying to beg by laying his head in Mike lap
The wine choice was a The Loose Goose 2008 Pinot Noir from the San Antonio Valley in Chile. A nice light Pinot Noir with a beautiful plum color.
Dessert was the best part of the meal! Some chocolate that Cathy brought us from Belgium and let me just say that the whole box in my fridge is in danger of being consumed quickly. We also had Jim’s favorite fruit with angel food cake. Except ours had to be taken up a notch to be fruit in a balsamic glaze.
Ingredients:
Strawberries, Nectarines, Pluots
1/4 cup balsamic
1/4 cup sugar
Directions
Mix all together and let the flavors combine, serve in a bowl or over cake and ice cream.
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