How to cook steak, potatoes and pepper/blue cheese sauce

Preheat oven to 450 Boil potatoes in water about 20 minutes and drain let cool for 5 or So minutes

Once cool place potato on cutting board or sheet pan. Lightly smash with the palm of your hand until it splits but is still firmly together

Like so. Do this to all of your potatoes

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Add about 3/4 cup of olive oil to a bowl... If you happen to have a truffle oil or something use that, that's what I used. Love it!

Add about a tablespoon of Italian seasoning to the oil

Add salt and pepper to taste and whisk a bit to incorporate

Coat potatoes a few at a time, don't toss or the potatoes will break. Just flip and coat all sides

Put them on a sheet pan and any remaining oil mix in the bowl just pour on top of potatoes. Set aside until ready to toss in the oven

Take your bunch of asparagus, I normally trim off the first 1/2 inch

Boil them for 2-3 minutes to partially cook

Then shock them in an ice bath to stop the cooking and keep the green color

Leave them in for a few minutes and then drain in a colander for a few minutes

Same thing with the asparagus add about a 1/4 cup olive oil, salt and pepper and 2 teaspoons of the Italian seasoning to the bowl then toss the asparagus and coat

Of you have a big enough sheet pan, lay them out next to the potatoes, other wise out them on their own sheet pan

Add them in your 450 degree preheated oven pull the asparagus after about 17 minutes and the potatoes at 25 minutes

While the veg is cooking add a few tablespoons of oil to a pan and get nice and hot

While the pan heats open you meat

Portion it out

Take about a 1/3 cup steak seasoning, 2 table spoons pepper and 2 teaspoons salt and mix

Spread it on a plate like so

Crust each side of the steak in the mix... If you run low on seasoning you can add more

Flip, and the other side

Bam, all pretty and waiting to get hot

Our oil is nice and hot, you can't tell, but it's at the point where there is a little smoke. Tells me it's ready to cook some beef!

Add your steaks in, if need do two batches

I pulled the steaks after 4 minutes each side, now let them rest a bit

Take those beautiful pan bits and juices, add the beef stock to it as well as the pepper and just a touch of salt... Before the stock, melt the butter in the pan to bring up some of those bits!

Let the stock reduce for about 2-3 minutes.

Mix the tablespoon of flour and cold water in a desperate dish and add that and the cream into the stock whisk well. And let cook and reduce another 3 minutes

It's started to thicken now, and I tossed the steak in for only 1 minutes to reheat a bit before serving

Once you pull the meat out of the sauce, add the blue cheese and which until it melts. Another 1-2 Minutes

Look at the veg as I pulled them from the oven

More veg

Plate up! Potatoes, the steak and then lay the asparagus on top. Sauce on top ad let it run down, then around the plate

The cooking times I used gave medium rare. If you want it to a medium, add about 2 minutes when first pan searing them. Enjoy! Check my other guides! Also on Facebook the love of culinary creations