Last week I found a delicious recipe on our site for rib eye steaks with gorgonzola butter, and with the warm weather this past weekend, I could almost smell the sizzling meat. I invited my boyfriend and sous chef Tony to help me in yet another culinary challenge.
We took a quick trip to the store, picked up two tender, delicious ribeyes, a pound of sweet potatoes and some fresh tomatoes. That was the easy part. Trying to cook in my little shoe box of an apartment, always leads to many adventures in cooking.
Challenge #1: How can we grill steak without a grill? Lucky for me, I made my roommates Valentine’s Day wish come true and bought her a pannini maker. I thought if it can grill bread and cheese, why not steak? Challenge #1 solved and I’m feeling pretty proud of myself.
Challenge #2: The world’s worst oven. Tony cut the sweet potatoes into beautiful wedges to make some baked fries. Then we coated them in olive oil and cayenne pepper. I should have known my oven wouldn’t cooperate. The fries were not in the oven more than 15 minutes when smoke started pouring out. Because I have the world’s worst oven, we ignore the smoke because “it always does that”.
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Fortunately, the rest of the dinner preparations went beautifully. We heated up the pannini maker, let our steaks sizzle for a few minutes, sliced the juicy tomatoes and prepared the gorgonzola butter topping. And before we knew it, we were done. What an easy recipe!
For memorial day weekend, I have volunteered to make dinner for our friends and family. I’ve sent the BBQ Bests red wine pack on its way, to be delivered just in time for the festivities. And with a “big kid” grill available, I’m preparing a meal to impress - ribeyes with gorgonzola butter and some fresh grilled vegetables. Summer grilling season here I come!














