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My Favorite Flank Steak

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

 
I don’t post a lot of meat recipes on this blog. I’m not sure why. I do eat meat. Somehow it doesn’t stimulate my memory, senses, and creative juices as vegetables, breads, desserts, and appetizers do, however.
 
Today I’m popping a quick meat recipe on anyway. Whenever I see a flank steak at the meat counter of Avery’s General Store I’m tempted to make this truly easy dish. I love marinating things, and flank steak really rewards you with flavor and texture if you marinate it.
 
I’m sorry that the measurements aren’t exact. Luckily, you can’t really go wrong with the recipe.
 
Next time I make it I’ll try to get something written down. But this is just one of those weeks!  Lots of phone calls to make and answer, lots of recipes to test and write up, a number of songs to practice, and a bored elderly mother to entertain.
 
Earlier today in her infatuation with the autumn sun Jan made an unauthorized break from the house with her walker. I thought she was napping until the Hawley, Massachusetts, road crew showed up at the door.
 
“Your mother seems to be hiking to Charlemont,” Wayne Clark told me in his laconic drawl.
 
When I found my mother she was WAY down the street chatting unrepentantly with a man she had found while walking.
 
(Believe me, it’s not easy to find stray men here in Hawley!)
 
“I knew you’d find me,” she said with a big grin on her face. I had to grin back as I thanked the man and the road crew.
 
Thank goodness for small towns! It takes a village to care for more than just children…….
 
The Flank Steak
 
Ingredients:
 
1 flank steak (1-1/2 to 2 pounds)
several cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced into tiny slices
soy sauce as needed (enough to cover but not submerge your steak)
 
Instructions:
 
With a small sharp knife make small slits all over one side of your flank steak. Insert pieces of garlic into each slit.
 
Pour soy sauce onto the steak; then turn it over and repeat the cutting, inserting, and pouring on that side as well.
 
Allow the steak to marinate at room temperature for at least 1-1/2 hours (a little longer is best, but if you want to marinate it for several hours you’ll need to refrigerate it). Turn it every 1/2 hour or so to make sure both sides stay moist.
 
Remove the steak from the soy sauce and place it on a hot grill (or on a grill pan). Grill it for about 4 minutes on each side—maybe a little longer—so that it is rare. If you overcook your steak it will be tough. It doesn’t have to be as rare as the photo above, however. (I love rare steak!)
 
Slice the warm steak against the grain.
 
Serves 4 to 6.


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