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I made this last night for our New Year’s Eve dinner.  However, I only cooked two steaks, but I made the regular amount of sauce, too much hassle to halve it, and it might not work so well halved, anyway.

I used a cast iron skillet to cook the steaks in, as it’s the best thing for getting a nice sear.  I found that 4 minutes per side made the steaks a perfect medium-rare.  This is an excellent recipe, you don’t need to do a thing to change it to make it better.  We got the strip steaks on sale for $4.99 a pound at Shaw’s, as this was the recipe of the week there.

To serve with the steaks, I made the Gorgonzola Stuffed Potatoes recipe that I saw on the Katie Brown Workshop.  You can find the recipe on this page.

I’m not a huge fan of Katie Brown.  Frankly, I find her perkiness a bit annoying.  Also, when I have watched her show, I’ve seen her cook some rather nasty stuff.  She’s shilling for Jello and Cool Whip these days, and she made this pumpkin pie wout of Jello pudding and Cool Whip.  Just about the only ingredient I would have used for a pumpkin pie was the canned pumpkin, but as long as it’s pure pumpkin, and not with spices or other crap thrown in.  I prefer to add my own seasonings.  Also, Cool Whip is evil, it’s not even real whipped cream.  That’s why they have to call it a “whipped topping”.

Katie is not as bad as Sandra Lee, though.  Some of her stuff is okay, but she can keep all of that Sandra-esque crap made with over-processed ingredients.  I can also do without some of her craft projects…in the same show where she made the potatoes (it was a New Year’s themed show), she also made this DOG-awful tacky looking table ornament out of a huge Styrofoam ball and some silver Christmas tree garland.  That one was right up there with Sandra’s tacky “tablescapes”.

This episode was part of a holiday cooking show marathon on the Create channel.  I was about to change the channel, but kept it on when she talked about the potato recipe…I love Gorgonzola cheese.  In fact, I will soon be making another Shaw’s “Get Inspired” recipe that uses up the rest of the wedge of Gorgonzola that I bought to make the potatoes.  It will be posted after I make it.

The stuffed potato recipe looked good, nothing weird or over-processed in it.  And when I made it, it was very tasty.  The steak recipe that she had on to serve with it looked yummie, too…but filet is just too pricey.  So I made the less-pricey New York strip pepper steaks instead.  The pototoes go just as nicely with that as they probably did with the filet mignon.

Anyhoo, stay tuned for the next “Get Inspired” recipe, coming soon.  It will be a dish of Rigatoni with Portobellos and Gorgonzola Cream, which sounds to me like a nice vegetarian dish (for vegetarians who consume diary, that is).

Enjoy!