Valentine’s Dinner Inspiration: Perfect Steak, Cheesy Baked Potatoes & Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus
An elegant, restaurant-style Valentine’s dinner that’s simple enough to make at home. This flavorful meal includes seared New York strip steaks basted in garlic rosemary butter, crispy cheesy baked potatoes, and smoky bacon-wrapped asparagus. Perfect for a romantic evening or a cozy celebration at home.
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Equipment
- 1 Cast Iron Skillet For searing steak
- 1 Oven For baking potatoes & asparagus
- 1 Baking Sheet For asparagus
- 1 Basting Spoon To spoon butter over steak
- 1 Knife To slice potatoes
- 2 Chopsticks As slicing guides for potatoes
Ingredients
Perfect Steak
- 2 pieces New York/Sirloin steaks
- to taste Salt & Pepper For seasoning
- ½ stick butter
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 2 garlic cloves lightly crushed
- 1 tbsp high-heat oil (like avocado or vegetable oil)
Cheesy Baked Potatoes
- 4 yellow potatoes
- 1 stick butter melted
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 4 slices cheddar cheese
- Sour cream (Optional)
- Chives or green onions (Optional)
- Bacon bits (Optional)
Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus
- 1 bunch fresh asparagus woody ends trimmed
- 6–8 slices bacon
- 2 tbsp BBQ sauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Perfect Steak
- Pat steaks dry with a paper towel and season on all sides with plenty of salt and pepper. (You can do this the night before and let chill in the refrigerator.)
- Heat a heavy skillet (preferably a cast iron skillet) with a high heat oil in it.
- Fry steak on one side until it forms a crust, then flip over and let the other side do the same.
- Add in butter as well as rosemary and garlic.
- Once melted, spoon butter infused with aromatics onto steaks, and do so continuously, until steak is cooked to desired level of doneness. U
- se thermometer to determine doneness.Rare - 120º, Medium Rare - 130º, Medium - 140º, Medium Well - 150º, Well - 160º.
- Once steak is cooked to your liking, remove from pan and let sit for 10 minutes before cutting into it.
Cheesy Baked Potatoes
- Preheat oven to 425º.
- Place potatoes, one at a time, between two chopsticks and using chopsticks as guides, cut slices into potato, cutting only as far as the chopstick will allow.
- Brush melted butter onto sliced potato being careful to get butter between the slices.
- Season with salt & pepper and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and reduce oven temperature to 350º.
- Place cheese between every slice of the baked potato. Return potato to oven for additional 10 minutes and bake until cheese melts.
- Remove from oven and serve hot. Top with sour cream, chives or green onion, and bacon bits if desired.
Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus
- Preheat oven to 400º.
- Wash asparagus and cut off woody bottoms.
- Take a few asaragus and wrap a single slice of bacon around it, overlapping the bacon as you turn the asparagus around.
- Place onto a cookie sheet.
- Brush BBQ sauce over the bacon.
- Drizzle olive oil over asparagus and season with salt.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven and serve hot.
Notes
This video and recepies provided and produced by Marcy Inspired.
