One Thing I Ate: Sirloin steak with garlic baby broccoli 🥩🥦

Baby’s first time making steak 🥺

Hello and welcome back to Five Things I Ate! This week, I make my very first steak! Read past posts here, and please follow my Instagram, @fivethingsiate.

So I know this newsletter is called FIVE things I ate, but if i’m being brutally honest with you (and I always try to be because you are important to me!), it’s been a little stressful as of late for me to conjure up five sharable meals with you on a weekly basis. The truth is, a lot of my meals are frozen TJ’s pizza, and as much as I am a simp for Trader Joe’s, that’s not the kind of primo content I wanna put out into the world. However, instead of feeling overwhelmed and either avoiding or deciding to quit this newsletter altogether, I’ve decided to try sharing a weekly meal or snack with you instead. I think this could be fun for us for two reasons: 1) I’d like to share and develop more recipes, and 2) if you’re looking for something to cook, this simplifies things too. Anyways, this week I made my first steak at home! So maybe you wanna make a steak too? And you can eat it virtually together with me <3

Sirloin steak with garlic baby broccoli 🥩🥦

Believe it or not this is the first time I’ve ever made a steak for myself in my life! I love steak but I’ve ever only had it for special occasions at a restaurant and it occurred to me only recently that I could buy some at the grocery store for a weeknight. So this is definitely not as good as Fancy Steak, but it’s also pretty Fancy for a weeknight dinner or date night which I think is not bad. I really got a photogenic sear going on that steak, hence I’m sharing a photo. Also, I loooove the baby broccoli so much, it soaks up all the steak flavor, I actually think I liked it even more than the steak itself.

Ingredients:

• 2 sirloin steaks (8oz each from Trader Joe’s)

• 1 bunch (8 oz ) of baby broccoli or broccolini

• 1 tbs salted butter

• 2 cloves garlic

Supplies:

• Heavy stainless steel pan with lid. My pan is the Cuisinart MCP33-24HN MultiClad Pro Stainless 3-1/2-Quart Saute with Helper and Cover Skillet, 3.5-Quart, which is a dupe of a more expensive All-Clad pan. I love me a budget-friendly dupe and I’m very happy with this pan so far, which is sub-$100, and in fact just about 60 bucks on sale right now at Bed Bath and Beyond, which I thought went out of business??

Steps:

• Turn heat to high and let pan get very hot.

• Meanwhile, season steaks with salt and pepper on both sides.

• When pan is very hot, lower steak into pan. It should sizzle. Do not turn down heat and do not cover.

• Set timer for 5 minutes, do not bother steak.

• Meanwhile, trim the ends of baby broccoli and thinly slice 2 cloves garlic.

• When 5 min goes off, flip, and set another timer for 5 min.

• Do not bother steak.

• When timer goes off, remove steak to a plate and let stand.

• Add 1 tbs butter, 2 cloves thinly sliced garlic to pan. Swirl to melt.

• Add baby broccoli, season liberally with salt and pepper, and cover pan.

• Set timer for 5-8 min. Midway, add a splash of water to pan, so it doesn’t burn, and cover to steam.

• Baby broccoli is done with stalks are tender.

• Serve with steak.

XOXO,

Soph

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