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Last week I snuck home to upstate NY to surprise my mom.  I landed Thursday evening and was surprising her Friday.  Since we had some time to kill and no one knew I was in town, we took advantage of the free time, Nicky took me out to dinner Thursday at Daniella's Steakhouse in his neighborhood.  After an incredible steak dinner (and stuffing my face at my moms and eating on th road for three days while driving back to Miami), today I decided today to make steak in a gorgonzola sauce with oven roasted potatoes and green beans.

SO GOOD!!

This meal had a lot of steps so timing was very important.  First I minced the garlic that would be used in the steak, the sauce, the beans and the potatoes.  I cleaned and cut the beans and potatoes.  Nick peppered the steaks. 

Oven Roasted Potatoes
3 yukon gold potatoes
olive oil
pepper
thyme
oregano
parsley

Pre heat the oven to 400.  Put the cut up potatoes in the pan and thinly coat all of them in olive oil.  Sprinkle all of the spices over the potatoes and bake until golden brown while you are making everything else.

Start the beans on low heat.  Cook some garlic in olive oil and add the beans.  Salt and pepper to taste and cover.

Nick then started the steaks on low in a tiny bit of olive oil on very low for about 15 minutes.  Then were fairly thin rib eyes.

Gorgonzola Sauce
2 cloves of minced garlic
6 tablespoons of butter
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
4-5 tablespoons of gorgonzola cheese

Melt the butter in a sauce pan.  Add the garlic and onion.  Allow them to soften up some in the butter.  Add the cheese and melt down. 

You could also add another tablespoon of crumbled cheese on the steaks before pouring the sauce over.  We did not because I bought a 1/2 pound block of gorgonzola from my fave italian maket, Laurenzo's.

And here you have....

my version of our date night, steak dinner at Daniella's. yummmmmm!