Week 11 = STEAK!!

I swear when we started this last season, Rob and I made steak or bbq every weekend. You'd be surprised how many football cities are all about the meat. But this is our first steak game this year, and it was well worth the wait. 

New York strip was an obvious call, so we decided to make a traditional steakhouse kind of dinner. But how we we going to to get Dallas in there? 

Answer: Tex-Mex everything!

We started with a wedge salad, because Rob is crazy about a wedge salad. I don't totally get it. I mean, bacon, yes. Bleu cheese, most definitely yes. But otherwise it's just a big old lump of iceberg lettuce. That would never win a Snob Salad Competition. Anyway, we switched it to Tex-Mex by using chorizo instead of bacon.

 Chorizo is really greasy, so we cooked it and drained it and patted it dry. The results were good. I think maybe bleu cheese and chorizo is a combo I would use again.

Next game the potatoes. Seriously, that was just an attempt to balance the plate. Fingerlings, jalapenos, onion, and leeks plus a little Mexican spice combo.

Again - good result, but can you go wrong roasting veggies in an oven? Not really. 

Now for the meat! I looked up Mexican spice rub, and got a recipe from Food and Wine for Mexican Spice-Rubbed Rib Eyes with Lime Butter. 

Um, did somebody say lime butter? Sign me up!

That's basically softened butter with lime juice, lime zest, and garlic. The green was so pretty that I wanted to take a picture. Sorry it doesn't translate too well. Maybe I'll have to ask Santa for a real camera.

 Here is a picture of the meat resting with the lime butter on top. It looks like ice cream!

I still want to eat it.

Finally, it all came together. We picked up a bottle of Rioja to round it all out.

Meat is good.