Steak and Veggies!

I decided to reward myself for not eating the french bread at Jimmy John's, so I made myself a steak! Why have carbs when you can have all this protein,  amirite? :)

I got the steak out from the freezer and ran cold water on it for about 5 minutes to soften it up a bit. Make sure you use cold water otherwise the hot water will start cooking the steak.. and that's no bueno. Then I seasoned it with salt and pepper. I basically took a pinch of both and rubbed it on each side of the steak. Then I cut about 1/2 a tablespoon of butter and let it melt on the pan because I wanted to make Paula Dean proud.

I let it cook on each side until it was about this color before flipping it. It is definitely not ready at this point. You can guess how long to keep cooking it by how you generally like your steak. I personally like it at a medium rare, but I didn't want to take that risk since I didn't have all of my cooking supplies. The best way to figure this out is to use an internal thermometer. Here's a chart that will help :)

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I took a guess and cooked mine until it was this pretty brown. I kind of like it kind of burnt lol

So after I was finished, I wanted to add a bit of veggies since I'm trying to be grown up. I just boiled some broccoli and carrots for a few minutes until they were soft. It'll take longer for the carrots to soften, so you should add those in before the broccoli if you want to take them out at the same time. I also added a little bit of shredded cheddar cheese on top of the broccoli to give it a little more flavor and used a bit of A.1. Spicy and Bold sauce on the steak. Here's the outcome! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!