Steak, Steak, and More Steak!!!

Last month, many of my recipes had chicken as the main ingredient.  This time when I went grocery shopping, I tried to stay away from the poultry section.  I decided to get a lot of meats in the steak section.  Last week, I made two steak recipes.  The first was a smothered recipe and the second was an oven roasted recipe.  Happy cooking and eating everyone!

Recipe#1: Smothered Beef Chuck Medallions with Creamy Bow Tie Pasta

Ingredients:
Beef Chuck Medallions-
Cream of Mushroom
1 medium onion chopped
1 medium bell pepper chopped
Seasoning
1/4 cup of canola or olive oil

Bow Tie Pasta-
1 Box of Bow Tie Pasta
2 Jars of Pasta Sauce (I used Parmesan Alfredo)
1 Tomato diced (Or a small can of diced tomatoes drained)
1/4tsp of Oregano
1/4 tsp of Basil

Directions for steak:
1. Clean your meat.  Season well (I used Season All, Garlic, Accent, Black Pepper, and Pampered Chef creole seasoning).  Place your oil in a large skillet and let it get nice and warm (place stove temp on medium high heat).  When the oil is heated, add your meat to the pot and pre-cook each side for 1-2 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, chop the onion and bell pepper.  Spray a baking dish with non-stick cooking oil.  Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.  When the meat is pre-cooked on both sides, put it on a plate and place to the side.  When all meat is done.  drain your grease from the pot, but leave just enough in the pot so that you can cook your onion and peppers.  When they get caramelized or a pretty brown color, add them to the baking dish.  Add the meat on top of the onion and peppers.

3. Then add the cream of mushroom all around the pan.  Fill the can that the cream of mushroom was in with water.  Add to baking dish.  Cover with aluminum foil.  Cook in the oven for about 2hrs. or until tender.

Bow Tie Pasta-
Cook pasta according to package directions. In a saucepan, add your two jars of sauce, diced tomatoes, oregano, and basil (I added a little garlic and black pepper to mine).  Mix well.  Once pasta noodles are cooked, drain all the water.  Then add the pasta sauce to your noodles.  Mix well.

Very simple and super tasty.  Enjoy!

Recipe#2: Oven Roasted Round Steak, Mashed Potatoes, and Roasted Asparagus

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds of round steak
• 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
• 1 can condensed French onion soup
• 1 cup of water
• Seasoning
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• Directions:
• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Wash your meat.  Then trim any fat that is on the steak.  Cut the meat into however many pieces you want (I had to large pieces of round steak and after cutting, ended up with 8 pieces).  Next, season your meat with whatever seasonings you like (season all, garlic, black pepper, crushed red pepper)
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  2. In a large skillet, on medium high heat, pre-cook both sides of the meat (about one minute per side).  When all pieces are cooked, add to a large roasting pan.  Then add the cream of mushroom and the french onion soup.  Using one of the cans (of the soups), fill with water and then add that to the roasting pan.  Bake UNCOVERED for an hour and 15 minutes.  Then bake COVERED for another  hour and 15 minutes.  If you need to add more seasoning to taste then do so.  The gravy from the steak was so good on top of the mashed potatoes.  I had three plates of food.  Enjoy!