Easy (and Awesome) Steak Marinade

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If you want to plan a special night with your significant other or even a nice dinner with friends, this recipe is a MUST.  This steak recipe is soooo easy and makes the most tender, flavorful steaks I’ve ever had!  This is saying a lot since I was raised in Nebraska and ate a lot of steaks growing up!

Tips:

1. 1.  My personal favorite type of steak to use in this recipe is top sirloin.  I typically buy them in multiples of 4 at Sam’s Club.  If you don’t want to spend quite so much on steak, I think you could get away with a cheaper cut of meat since this marinade does an awesome job tenderizing the meat.
   2. When I’m cooking the steak, I use my meat thermometer  to monitor the temperature.  I do realize that most fancy cooks say you aren’t supposed to puncture the meat while it’s cooking (or still warm), however I am by no means a gourmet chef; I am just trying to avoid food poisoning.  I personally like to cook my steak to be somewhere between medium rare and medium, so usually around 135-140 degrees.  It’s also worth nothing that the steaks continue to cook a little more after you take them out of the oven.
   3. Feel free to add more seasoning to the marinade or even to the steak as you are cooking it.  A simple steak seasoning works well.  I am trying to keep my recipes simple, so that people don’t get discouraged by a long ingredient list!  I also know that everyone has different tastes, so feel free to add spices as desired!                             
   4. The top sirloin steaks that I buy are quite big and I usually only eat half (my husband never seems to have a problem finishing his!)   I love to put my leftover steak on the Taylor Farms Asian Chopped Salad.  I buy these salad kits from Sam’s Club and they make an awesome lunch.  The kit includes toppings and dressing, so I just add some kind of meat.  Every time I have company over, they always want to know how I made my salad – it’s always one of these Taylor Farms kits.  Try them out, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed!