Valentine's Steak-- Because She's Probably Worth It.

This one is going to be a bit different. I promise to start including pictures from now on...but honestly they would be of little help here. With Valentines Day approaching and me with things to prepare for a special someone, I've decided to rush and get this post out ahead of schedule. 


So let's talk Steak. It's awesome. Good, i'm glad we've had that chat. 


INGREDIENTS FOR THE SCIENCE: 

• 2 - 10oz. or greater NY Strip Steaks
• 1 cup -  Shredded Cheese (Parmesan, Pepper Jack, or Mozzarella- your call.)
• 6 - Jumbo sized pre-cooked, thawed, shrimp
• 2 Tbsp Vegetable Oil- This is for pan release. Lube up, yo. 
• 2 Tbsp Olive Oil- More lube.
• 4 Tbsp Butter (separate from above, you'll see why)
• Mushrooms (Preferably large, raw, baby-bellas) 
• 1/2 medium-sized red onion (sliced)
• 2 cloves of garlic- finely diced
• Steak seasoning (personal preference: Cavendar's Greek Seasoning)
• * - Black Pepper

WHAT ELSE YOU'LL NEED: 

• Grill
• 2 small skillets/frying pans
• 1 bottle of chilled Riesling (Spatlese- you really don't want anything sweeter than this.)
• By now I hope you're detecting a pattern
• The desire to grill something like a man. 

1) Preheat your grill till it's hotter than 400 degrees - or .67 Scarlett Johanssons. Wash and slice the raw onion, garlic cloves, and mushrooms. These are to go over the steak once it's all done. If she's already over at your place, you may want to let her go play Skyrim while you're cutting the onions. You know how they make her sad. Also, if it didn't come shredded, shred that cheese now. If your shrimp still have tails, deny them that right and remove them. 

2) Melt the butter any way you see fit and apply half of the butter to each steak on both sides. Apply the seasoning to both sides of the steak and put it in the fridge for five minutes so that the butter hardens up a bit with the seasoning. Keep a little bit of extra seasoning on the side. 

3) Apply your steaks to your hot grill once you're ready to eat within 20 minutes. You'll flip it at about 5 minutes. (5 min/ per side given 11 oz. NY Strip--roughly).

4) In one skillet apply the olive oil, mushrooms, and red onions and garlic. Turn it up on high and saute them. 

5) In pan number two, add the vegetable oil and shrimp to the pan. Saute these, adding a little bit of the same steak seasoning as you did previously. 

6) By now, you probably want to look at flipping that steak. You're going for medium-rare here, by the way. You'll probably disregard that and cook them to whatever doneness you normally prefer here. Don't worry too much, you'll only be wrong. This here is an art that I couldn't teach in one paragraph. 

7) After you've flipped the steak, wait three minutes. Place 3 sauteed shrimp on each NY Strip. Cover each of the steak/shrimp combos with half of the shredded cheese. Close the grill and wait two minutes. Then remove your steaks.

8) Cover what looks to be the most amazing steaks you've ever seen with the onion-mushroom-garlic mix. 

9) You may now pop the cork on that wine and enjoy your evening.

10) ????

11) Profit.