In My Belly & PaleYOLO: Steak and eggz

This is going to be a rather short post.

 

On Thursday night, I was so busy that I realized I didn't have any real cookable food for Friday's lunch and dinner. I was ridiculously busy preparing for a busy weekend. So, it's pays to have some go-to easy foods: eggs, spinach, and uncured beef hot dogs! I got the Applewood Uncured Beef Hot Dogs, but they're a bit salty (since it lacks the preservatives). So easy on your salt!

 

I managed to pick up some ribeye steak on the way home from work on Friday.

 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of baby spinach
• 2 large eggs
• 2 medium sized shallots
• 2 medium sized champignon mushrooms
• any size steak you want :)
• 3 garlic cloves
• salt and ground pepper

Preparation:

• Finely dice the garlic cloves
• Slice 3-4 slits on each side of the steak and season with salt and ground pepper (to taste)
• Stuff about 2 cloves worth of garlic in the slits and let sit for approximately 20 minutes (until it's about room temperature)
• In the meantime, chop up your mushrooms into small pieces and slice your shallots into thick rings
• On medium/high heat, saute your spinach in desired fat (extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, ghee, etc)... In this case, I used ghee
• Using the juices left over from the spinach, fry 2 eggs over easy (perfect for dipping the meat into)
• Let sit and place inside microwave to retain some warmth
• Quickly clean up the pan of excess spinach/egg residue and add 3-4 tablespoons of ghee or extra virgin olive oil and stir fry the mushrooms and shallots until shallots are transluscent
• Depending how you like your steak (I love it medium rare), pan fry for about 3 minutes on both sides
• Once it's cooked to your liking, set mushrooms and shallots atop the steak (lets the flavors absorb in the meat a bit)
• ENJOY!

 

I had one hell of a busy weekend and yesterday, I went to Blue Water Grill in Redondo Beach to celebrate my dad's birthday. I've been told I've been anal about being on paleo (asking people if anything's paleo), but hell, I was hungry and needed to know! I got blackened atlantic salmon, fresh veggies and spinach sauteed in extra virgin olive oil. PERFECT DISH. You know how I'm picky? Yeah, I definitely ate most of the squash and zucchini and spinach... but tomatoes... HAVE GOT TO GO, lol.