Steak in a Package

Chicken is on the menu for dinner.  Good choice.  Everyone happy.  I guess not because we ended up with a chuck steak that had been in the freezer, longer than I would have liked to be.  Hubby was getting me something from the freezer and he innocently, asked me, if I knew that there was a chuck steak, in the freezer.  Sure, I knew.  I am not a big beef eater and chuck steak just did not appeal to me.  I got my frozen peaches, which  is what I asked for with a small chuck steak, just enough for the two of us.

Bye bye chicken.  Hello chuck steak.  Hey, isn’t there a song like that?  Thinking………..Yes, there is……Everly Brothers, “Bye Bye Love”.  I wonder if that love ended up as good as my chuck steak did.  Now, I am going to be humming that all night.

I did not have my heart in this meal so I went through the motions.  In the end, I had salmon and hubby enjoyed this.  None is left, so it had to have been a success.

Steak in a Package  adapted from About.com – Southern Food  (I get lots of good recipes from this site and my guess is that this steak was really delicious, just not my choice.

Ingredients:

• 1 to 1 1/2 pounds chuck steak, about 1 inch thick
• 1 envelope onion soup mix  ( I rubbed it down with seasoning, lots of onion powder, some parsley and basil, from my garden, and a tiny bit of garlic plus the hot red pepper and coriander.
• 3 carrots, halved lengthwise and cut in quarters , thick sliced
• 2 ribs celery, cut in sticks
• 3 medium potatoes, peeled and thick sliced                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 2 tablespoons butter margarine
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon  hot paprika
• 2/4 teaspoon coriander

Method:

Tear off a 2 to 3-foot length of 18-inch wide heavy duty foil.

Place meat in the center, sprinkle with spices, then cover with vegetables.

 

Dot with margarine and sprinkle with salt and paprika.

 

 

 

Fold foil over and seal well to hold in juices.

 

Place in a shallow baking pan; bake at 400° for 1 to 11/2 hours, or until meat is tender.

submitted to Just Something I Whipped Up  

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