Grilled Boneless Top Sirloin

The bad news?: A severe headcold and sinusitis and achiness all over hit me like a ton of bricks last night. The good news?: It was a couple hours AFTER our delicious dinner, so I was able to taste every delectable bite! 

Taking advice from Jenn's Food Journey's Surf and Turf recipe, I prepared the boneless top sirloin steak as she did, and while I stirfried the onions, peppers, and green beans, my husband grilled the steaks on our ancient charcoal grill.

I hadn't used our cast iron skillets for quite a while, but after reading Cris Goode's blog post on cast iron skillets, I decided to drag them out again. I think some of our cast iron skillets, family heirlooms, are from the 1920's or possibly even earlier. They're really quite amazing pans! 

So I put a little olive oil and freshly-minced garlic in one of the skillets and stirfried a package of green beans I'd frozen late last summer. It's best to keep the heat pretty low and turn the beans often.

I used another cast iron skillet to saute the onions and peppers. I know better than to put the onions in at the same time as the peppers (they should go in a little later, so everything gets ready at the same time), but I'll blame it on the bug that was surreptitiously invading my body. So the onions were a little more done than I like them, and the peppers a little less done than I like them, but altogether it made a fantastic dinner!

So thanks to the tips from Jenn and Cris, we enjoyed a wonderful dinner...

It was a couple hours later that I knew I was coming down with something and spent the achey evening on the couch watching an old Lord Peter Wimsey movie, Five Red Herrings, starring Ian Carmichael, and slept through parts three and four.

Hope you all had a nice Valentine's Day.

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