It's a steak salad!

Guys (and gals).... I'm excited.  A few weeks ago, I made the steak salad from the cover of the magazine!  It was soooooo... goooooood.... mmmm... the dressing was delish.  Ok, let's see if I can remember all the steps.  I could be wrong with stuff, so please consult the magazine.

Alrighty, here are some spices and stuff.  Ummm, corriander, fennel seed, salt, pepper.. I think...  I put them into a little spice grinder so I could grind it all up.

 Here are the spices, all ground up. It smelled delicious!

Here's my steak, all covered in the ground up spices.  (Gotta rub the steak with olive oil first, so all the spices stick).  Then i put it in the fridge for a bit.

Here's the dressing!  The magazine told me to use a blender to make the dressing.  When I read that, I was like, "Whaaat??!  Eff that!  I'm using a jar."  So here is the jar.  This dressing was really tasty.  It had like dijon mustard, hoisin sauce, garlic, olive oil, lots of other stuff... I think it needed white wine vinegar (if memory serves me well), but I used red wine vinegar instead.  It was still good.  SO good, if you ask me.  Instead of blending, I shook it like a polaroid picture (heeeyyyyy-yaaaa, heeyyy-yaaa). 

Here I go breakin' all the rules.  The recipe called for some relative of watercress, but our local Loblaws grocery store did not have the cress.  So I used arugula.  Just as good.  Potentially better; I wouldn't know, I don't have a counterfactual.  (Sorry, bad joke.)

Mangos.

Shallots.

Asparagus - to be grilled.

Booya!  Steak Salad!!

That was my plating attempt to make it look somewhat like the magazine cover.  Who cares how it looks, it all ends up in the same place, right?

I highly recommend this recipe!