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Steak Salad With Broccoli and Asparagus

August 12, 2014 By cookingintherockies 8 Comments

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Tasty summer salad that is perfect for a summer picnic! It's best served at room temperature. Delish.

Tasty summer salad that is perfect for a summer picnic! It’s best served at room temperature. Delish.

So I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and for about fifteen years we spent our Sunday’s in the summer sailing our boat, The Compass Rose on Rocky Fork Lake.  It was kinda our church. So many great memories of sailing and being with family and friends. Every week a different family joined us. Rocky Fork had these great coves that would stop in for lunch. The kids would swim and fish and the adults would sip on the giant jug of Gallo wine. Do you remember the big green jug, with a handle nonetheless? My Mom was famous for putting together these amazing picnics. I swear she would spend two days cooking prior  to put everything together! It was so worth it! Steak salad with broccoli and asparagus was one of those lunches that she would bring. This salad is a food I still crave and guess what I was craving this week? Yep! You guessed it. I will be eating it all week. It’s a good thing that steak, broccoli and asparagus are some of my favorite foods and one of the only leftovers that I will eat. It’s that good. Times have changed, so this is my variation. Give it a try.

Steak Salad With Broccoli and Asperagus
Recipe Type: Lunch or Dinner
Cuisine: American
Author: Heather Blake
One of my favorite salads, Ever!
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 pounds flank steak
  • 2 small or one large broccoli head, florets removed
  • 1 pound asparagus chopped into small pieces
  • 1/2 cup tamari or soy sauce
  • 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tbs garlic minced
  • 1 tbs fresh ginger minced
  • 3 tbs hoisin sauce
  • 1 tbs honey
  • 2 tbs minced jalapeno pepper
Instructions
  1. In a large zip lock bag place the soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, ginger, hoisin sauce, honey and jalapeno pepper. Seal it up and give it a good shake.
  2. Put the flank steak in the bag and let marinate in the refrigerator for at least four hours up to overnight.
  3. When you are ready to assemble the salad, heat up your grill and grill the steak to medium rare (it’s best this way because the salad is served at room temperature). It took me about 10 minutes.
  4. Reserve the marinating liquid.
  5. While the steak is grilling, heat up a large pot of salted water. Add the broccoli and asparagus and cook for TWO minutes. Drain and put veges into a ice bath to stop cooking. Set aside
  6. When the steak is done grilling, let it cool for 10 minutes. Slice it thinly against the grain.
  7. In a large bowl, mix the broccoli and asparagus together with the steak slices. Pour about a half a cup of the marinade into the salad(or more if you need it). Toss well and enjoy!
Notes
Don’t let the food police be party poopers on this recipe. I have had it 100’s of times and using the marinating liquid is ok when you marinate a steak. If you have a problem with this, just make a half batch of the liquid and use that on the salad.
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I just had to include a picture of what I picked from my garden today! It’s so pretty and I HAVE RED TOMATOES!!! They have been soooo slow this year! Crazy thing though, I’m still getting broccoli and I just pulled my first cabbage! The beets are pretty too. Beet salad next on my blog!

This weeks harvest! People! We have red tomatoes!

This weeks harvest! People! We have red tomatoes!


So in celebration of the Super Moon this past Sunday, a group of us went up Mt Evens (highest paved road in North America). We thought it would be fun to watch a moon rise from 14,000 feet!  Unfortunately, it had snowed at the top so the closed the upper portion of the road so we got stuck down at about 12,500 feet. As you will see, still pretty darn cool. What did you do to watch the moon? Probably not this! LOL!

One of my all time favorite hikes is to Chicago Lakes. Here we are looking down on them!  If you start from Echo Lake it's 10 miles out and back! Bring your fly rod, these lakes are packed with trout!

One of my all time favorite hikes is to Chicago Lakes. Here we are looking down on them! If you start from Echo Lake it’s 10 miles out and back! Bring your fly rod, these lakes are packed with trout!

Summit Lake takes your breath away! It's so amazingly beautiful. So spectacular at dusk!

Summit Lake takes your breath away! It’s so amazingly beautiful. So spectacular at dusk!

It's so neat to be above tree line or should I say "cloud" line? We are about 12,550 here.

It’s so neat to be above tree line or should I say “cloud” line? We are about 12,550 here.

We had a great spread for our dinner. It was had to eat though. We were shivering cold. It was probably in the high 30"s and breezy! Burr!

We had a great spread for our dinner. It was hard to eat though. We were shivering cold. It was probably in the high 30″s and breezy! Burr!

No Super Moon watching is complete with a few bottles of champagne! Seriously. I was good and only had a tiny glass. I was driving and alcohol at this elevation goes straight to your head!

No Super Moon watching is complete with a few bottles of champagne! Seriously. I was good and only had a tiny glass. I was driving and alcohol at this elevation goes straight to your head!

 

Filed Under: Gluten free, Main Courses, Recipes, Salads and Salad Dressings Tagged With: asperagus, broccoli, steak

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  2. Karen (Back Road Journal) says

    August 27, 2014 at 7:54 AM

    Happy to have discovered your blog and perfect timely as I have all the ingredients to make your steak salad. Tastier than steak, baked potato and grilled asparagus that I was going to make. 🙂

    Reply
    • cookingintherockies says

      August 27, 2014 at 10:34 AM

      I happy you found my blog too! Let me know how you like it! Easy and delicious!!!

      Reply
  3. Chris says

    August 16, 2014 at 3:58 PM

    “Well crap, are we out of wine already, this bottle is empty.”

    “No it isn’t – the wine is just frozen.”

    Reply
    • cookingintherockies says

      August 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM

      That’s funny! Except sometimes it’s nice when it’s “slushy” an adult icy!

      Reply
  4. Karen Harris says

    August 13, 2014 at 7:19 AM

    What a wonderful looking recipe. Loved your picnic spread too! We had a VERY chilly picnic at Rocky Mountain National Park a few years ago. After cooking for a couple of hours the night before, no one could eat for their teeth chattering.

    Reply
    • cookingintherockies says

      August 13, 2014 at 7:50 AM

      Thanks Karen! That’s funny. My hands were so cold I could hardly grab a cracker!

      Reply

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