Strip Steaks

By traditional thought, NY Strip steaks are among the most expensive cuts of meat around. It's not uncommon to pay upwards of $15/lb. for ready-cut steaks at the meat counter. Often, these are trimmed poorly, cut thin, or otherwise less than ideal. But, if you have a good slicing knife and a steady hand, you can buy the subprimal and cut your own. That has two big advantages: 1. it's cheaper--we can find it for as little as $3-4/lb. 2. You can cut and trim the steaks to your liking. I happen to like relatively thick steaks, so I can work these to my liking.

So, tonight, I cooked up strip steaks, did a mushroom-sherry-cream sauce, mashed potatoes, and some spinach flash sauted in garlic adn olive oil. The steaks were very nice, as always, the sauce a good taste, and the potatoes OK. But the spinach was a real winner. It came from the farmers market, so was very fresh. I heated a pan rather hot, added in olive oil, threw in the garlic, and the spinach. I tossed it quickly, for less than a minute, and pulled it off the heat and out of hte pan. That kept it from becoming just soggy. Yum.