Meat and Potatoes Salad - For the Man in Your Life

I don't know about your dude, but my lovely husband is not a super fan of salads for dinner so I developed a recipe to change that and he loved it. I loved it too so that was a bonus, this was a filling and healthy dinner and I served it with my homemade balsamic vinaigrette, delicious!



Meat and Potatoes Salad
Recipe by Me
Serves 2

Ingredients

• Green Leaf Lettuce or whatever floats your greens boat
• 2 Russet or large red potatoes
• 1 small sirloin steak or whatever steak is on sale, just trim the fat
• Blue Cheese
• Salt and Pepper
• Any steak seasoning you like, I have a great southwestern blend that a friend gifted

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 400 and take your steak out of the fridge to take the chill off. Clean and chop your potatoes into a small dice, drizzle with olive oil and toss with salt and pepper, put on roasting pan and get those taters into the oven. You want to get these crispy because they will be the "croutons" of your salad. Stir occasionally - it should take about 30 minutes
2. Take your steak and trim of any fat, season with salt, pepper, and any other seasoning you prefer. Heat an oven-safe skillet with some non-stick spray over high heat, once hot, add the steak and let cook until it has a nice crust and pulls away from the pan easily, flip and do the same on the other side. Once it is nice and crusty, place in the oven for a few minutes, until your desired temperature, here is a good guide for the different "done-ness" scales, we like ours medium. Set aside and rest on a cutting board for about 10 minutes. Slice against the grain on an angle.
3. Rip up your lettuce and prepare your dressing while the potatoes and steak are finishing up.
4. Plate up, lettuce on the bottom, scatter the potatoes, add half of the slice steak and top with some blue cheese crumbles. Drizzle with dressing and enjoy your man salad.

Add any other vegetables you like or your man will tolerate - celery, carrots, cucumber, sweet potatoes are all suggestions