Cooking For One Made Easy

I don't know about y'all, but sometimes cooking for one is real tricky!  Between all the effort it takes to make the meal and "taste testing", I usually don't even want to eat it when I'm done!  Beyond the fact that most recipes make GIANT portions, so you end up eating the same thing for a week straight!  These factors sometimes make it easier to just go to Layne's (Our local fried chicken eatery) or CJ's Barbecue.  Especially because they are on the way home from work.  Now, we all know that eating out gets expensive quickly, and can cost you your waistline in a hurry!

Fancy Steak for one y'all! Recipe follows!

So what to do about this predicament?  Well, my solution is to figure out how to make recipes smaller, perhaps enough for two servings.  Now we all know that I LOVE me some beef, especially a good steak, but that usually requires grilling.  And I am definitely challenged when it comes to that job, besides, it it just so much effort to set up.  I much prefer tossing something in the oven and forgetting about it for 20-30 minutes.  Well, thanks to beefitswhatsfordinner.com, I learned that you CAN cook steak in the oven!  You just have to set it to the broil setting and about 400 degrees, and presto, you have a delicious steak!

Just the other night, I tried out this method with a couple of delicious choice tenderloins, and it was perfect!  I paired it with some roasted red potatoes, and had a nutritious, and delicious meal for one!  Below is the recipe!

This stuff is liquid gold!

• 1 Tenderloin Steak
• Season it as you like (I used salt, pepper and Bodacious Red Soppin' Sauce)

I cooked mine to medium (160 degrees) which was about 20 minutes at 400 degrees

• Red potatoes (no peeling required!) diced into 1 in. pieces
• Season with Salt, pepper, chile flake and Soppin' Sauce!

These took a bit longer than the steak, I think it ended up being about 30 minutes because I like my taters crisp!

So no more excuses y'all! This was one meal fit for a queen, and took about 45 minutes to make!

Alicia