Cooking: Week 6 - Love - Broiled Grass-fed Rib Eye Steak

Week: 6
Theme: Love Inspired
Dish: Broiled Grass-fed Rib Eye Steak

Ofer and I go rock climbing at Rocknasium, a local gym in Davis. One of the owners, Mark, is a super cool dude and is also a cattle farmer. He takes his cows to graze on plots of land in the area and they just basically eat grass at day. We decided to buy two steaks from him for our Valentine's Day dinner; it's become somewhat a tradition to have steak for Valentines. :)

This was actually a really stressful meal. We had originally planned to pan sear the steaks and cook it in our cast iron, which had been our pan of choice for meats, but we had heated up the pan much too hot. When we tried pouring some oil into the pan, it immediately burst into flames. Sorry for not having pictures of the fire as I was trying really hard not to freak the fuck off. Ofer was able to remain calm and made me fetch the baking soda to put it out. Phew. We did manage to salvage our pan and it still works fine, but now we know not to just put oil into a super hot pan.

With the cast iron plan nixed, we decided to just broil the meats. We got them nice and oiled up since grass-fed beef doesn't have as much fat as corn fed beef. We only seasoned with salt and pepper cause we had never had grass fed beef before and really wanted to taste the beefy-ness of it.

I didn't take any pictures of the cooking process because we were just broiling it and there was nothing exciting happening. We cooked the first side for 4 mins then the other side for 3. It didn't have as much of a crust, but we didn't want to overcook it.

We also made a quinoa salad. Quinoa has been really growing on me. I really like it.

It was really delicious! A bit chewier than the other steaks I've had, but the flavor is really up there. There was hardly any fat in this cut, but I didn't think it took away from the experience at all. Ofer says "It was super tasty."