When your tomatoes are large enough to cover the slice of bread, the following doesn’t apply. But since we rarely have those tomatoes, we are faced with using smaller ones. I like thick slices of tomato but after you slice them and lay them on the bread with the tomatoes over lapping, the middle of the sandwich gets pretty thick, making it harder to eat - solution below.
It’s hard to believe I built this meal this way but we had some asparagus in the fridge that needed to be used and Bev thought about Steak Oscar which sounded good to me. I steamed the asparagus, nuked the crab meat just a little, and the steaks just got S&P for seasoning before cooking them reverse sear in a 225F oven then searing them in a smoking hot skillet. I used the recipe for Easy Bearnaise Sauce from the “All Recipe” blog but I tried a short cut method by putting everything in a container and using the immersion blender to whip it up.
To assemble the dish, plate the steaks then top with
asparagus, crab, and bearnaise.
Meat pies can be traced back to 6000 B.C. and I like all forms of them whether they be pasties, dumplings, piroskis, turnovers, pierogis, empanadas, etc. and I've always wanted to make them so today was the day. I opted for empanadas because they can be made with refrigerator pie dough and I chose the recipe for Beef Empanadas from the “Handle The Heat” blog. I made the filling by the recipe and ignored the dough part to get the recipe below.
The plan was for Bev to have snow crab while Cindy and I had the tuna taste test but she opted for something else so we had the snow crab the next night and to go with it, Bev made focaccia bread. The snow crab came from our May trip to Joe Patties In Pensacola, FL and the package contained three clusters which were a good bit larger than what we see in our grocery store. I just steamed them and served with melted butter for Bev, Cindy, and me – Pat came over for the bread.
While Bev and Pat won’t eat fresh tuna (canned only), Cindy and I both enjoy the fresh version but we’ve never had a taste test. When I buy fresh tuna from Joe Patti’s in Pensacola, it looks like this:
But when I buy it at the local Food City, it looks like this:
