Monday, June 13, 2011
Secret Recipe Club: Creative Culinary's Grapefruit, Ginger & Honey Flank Steak
After doing my usual stumbling of food blogs one day, I came across a link for the Secret Recipe Club. It's a group of bloggers that post a recipe from an assigned food blog every month. The idea is genius! #1, you get to discover someone new each month. And #2, someone gets assigned your blog, so you get to see your recipes done their way. It's win-win! To find out more, visit here.
So I decided to join last month and this month would be my first post. I received the blog Creative Culinary for my assignment. I'd never been to this blog before, but I knew it was somewhere that I'd be back to again and again. It was so hard to choose a recipe - because they all looked so good! Then I came across the Grapefruit, Ginger, & Honey Flank Steak. I knew it would be a hit just from the name. So that was my chosen recipe!
Ingredients:
Adapted from Creative Culinary's recipe
2 tablespoons olive oil
juice from 1 orange (I mistakenly bought a giant orange instead of a grapefruit - apparently I wasn't reading the tags correctly, hehe)
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1 teaspoon ground coriander
about 1 teaspoon kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
2 lbs. skirt steak (I already had some skirt steak in the freezer, so I used it instead of flank)
In a medium bowl, combine the olive oil, orange juice, honey, ginger, coriander, salt, and pepper.
Lightly score the skirt steak both horizontally and vertically on both sides.
Add skirt steak to a resealable plastic bag and pour in marinade. Refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.
Light a charcoal grill under medium high heat. Grill skirt steak for about 5 minutes per side for a good medium rare.
Let steak rest for about 5 minutes and slice against the grain.
I really enjoyed this meal and thought it was the perfect weeknight meal! It was one of those things you could just throw together in the morning for the marinade, come home from work, and within 30 minutes, you've got dinner! I'll definitely be back to Creative Culinary's blog for more fantastic recipes like this! So if you haven't stopped by there, you really should - and check out the other Secret Recipe Club members too!
If you're interested in joining, head on over here. Hopefully I'll see you guys next month!!
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This flank steak would be great over a salad. Fun to be in the Secret Recipe club with you :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea, I am definitely going to look into it!
ReplyDeleteThat steak looks like it is cooked to perfection yum yum Diane
ReplyDeleteThat's a really interesting combo of flavors. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI'll be the citrus really does a great job. Wow. Looks excellent!
ReplyDeleteThe photograph is just beautiful! My husband would LOVE this meal...flank steak is his favorite!
ReplyDelete-Emily
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Grapefruit and ginger - what a wonderful combination.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did. If nothing else this recipe got me away from thinking all lemon all the time when it comes to marinating flank steak; next I'll be trying orange! Thanks for doing such a great job.
ReplyDeleteLove the flavors in the name... yummy! They must ebe incredible together! Thanks for sharing this! :)
ReplyDeleteYour flank steak looks so tender and excellent!
ReplyDeleteWhat great flavors! This sounds like some fantastic steak! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I may join in July when I return from vacation!
ReplyDeleteIt looks good , as usual :-) Fun way to try out new recipes and to find new blogs. I have joined too....
ReplyDelete/Birthe
Sounds fun! And delicious sounding recipe. Suddenly, I want meat for dinner!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool idea! And you got a pretty spectacular looking steak out of it, too!
ReplyDeletedelicious combination of flavours
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a really different marinade--will try it next time we have steak :)
ReplyDeleteWhat awesome flavors! I am always looking for new marinades for flank steak.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great combination of flavors! Just had skirt steak last night and this would have been perfect. Delish!!
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying my first month in the Secret Recipe Club and checking out all the blogs and recipes and your steak looks perfect and delicious.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly sounds like a winner. We are not eating much meat but this would certainly tempt me.
ReplyDeleteThe steak looks delicious! I love the combination of flavors! I think I need to join this club. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat an innovative combination to cook a steak! I love this nice and fruity idea, it is so different from the usual salt and pepper!
ReplyDeleteGrapefruit, Ginger and honey is such an interesting flavor combo and I need to try this on my next steak meal too. So glad that you're enjoying the Club, because so am I!
ReplyDeleteOhh that sounds like a fun idea! I love the combination of flavors in this recipe! Great choice of recipe Peggy! :-)
ReplyDeleteEven just the words, grapefruit, ginger & honey are making my mouth water! This looks super and fab choice. Now, this club sounds interesting!
ReplyDeletelooks gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting flavor combo. I would love to try this the next time steak is on the menu. I too am loving being a part of the Secret Recipe Club and in such good company.
ReplyDeleteThat is a really interesting recipe! I really really like it!
ReplyDeleteGrapefruit, what a nice twist!
ReplyDeleteMy first month, too! You found a fabulous recipe...I'd love to use this marinade on a flank steak very soon...mmmmmmmm. SO wonderful on a charcoal grill~
ReplyDeleteReally love the idea of cooking beef with grapefruit and ginger. What a great recipe to pick!
ReplyDeleteI don't eat steak much but this is really making me salivate, what a great pick.
ReplyDeleteI love addition of grapefruit to ginger & honey! Looks delicious. It looks like a fun group to join.
ReplyDeleteWow, the secert recipe club sounds cool. I just love the concept, and this recipe you chose to do-over, looks delicious! I can't wait to check out creative culinary's blog! :)
ReplyDeleteSounds very flavorful and I am betting my Grumpy would like it!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like such an interesting mix of flavors! It looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI have a ton of restaurant secret recipes that I'll be adding to this thread. I was hoping others might do the same.This led to the restaurant putting the three ingredients into one secret sauce.restaurant secret recipes
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