1st of 4 Steaks

Wine: Notari Micodemi Montepulciano d’Abruzzo – 2004

Cathy is extremely busy with a rush project at work. We wanted to make an easy dinner. Grilling steaks sounded like the best plan. I went on Monday to our favorite butcher: Harvey Gussman. I arrived just as he was closing, but had pre-ordered 4 aged porterhouse steaks. Sorry Brett, know you wanted them, but I ordered them on Friday!

We went to the Hollywood Farmer’s Market on Sunday, for the first time since our return from Japan. It was loaded with early summer vegetables. We bought a wide variety of tomatoes, potatoes, porcini mushrooms, corn, etc. The plan is to serve the steak in four different ways on four different nights. One steak each night.

For this first night we grilled two of the Porterhouse Steaks. We will only eat one, on Tuesday night we will serve the second steak room temperature. We Grilled Corn on the grill, much more than we would eat, because we plan to make a salad with the grilled corn and tomatoes on a subsequent night.

On Sunday night we went to Mozza, and they were jammed as usual. Matt helped us score some food to go. We watched the second to last Sopranos and had Italian food. How great is that? Will Tony get wacked in the finale? We only ate half of the chopped salad.

For a first course we had the other half of Mozza Chopped Salad.

We grilled the corn by smothering the corn in butter, salting then wrapping individually in aluminum foil. When the steak is almost done we throw the corn cobs on the grill. We remove the steak and tent. When you hear the corn begin to sizzle, with tongs we remove the aluminum foil and grill directly to finish.

We also made Corina’s Potato / Fava Bean Hash. It is served at her restaurant: Canele, the best restaurant in the Silverlake area by far! We have previously described the recipe (look at post of April 2, 2007 for recipe). It is great. The recipe calls for fresh mint, the one thing we didn’t have. I went to our local Indian market: India Sweets & Spices to pick up some mint. The United States has never allowed India Mangos to be imported. They just changed the law. The market had fresh Mangos from India. They had just arrived. They are supposed to be the best. I bought one, will report soon!

For desert we had Budino, which is a butterscotch like pudding from Mozza. It was great!