Steak, Baked Potato and Caesar Salad

The weather is starting to hit above the freezing mark, so why not fire up the bbq. Yes, I know it is a grill and not a bbq, but we're in Canada, not Texas. And what is the best thing to start the season off with? The biggest T-bone steaks from our local butcher, naturally. 

Steak, baked potato with fresh chives and bacon,
and Caesar Salad with lemon-parmesan dressing

It's always a challenge keeping the 'cue at a high enough temperature in the winter, so it makes cooking the steak that much harder. Aimed for the usual medium-rare, and happily they didn't come out worse than a solid medium or a tad under medium. Phew. We tried an Applewood smoked bbq sauce - was pretty good, but didn't strictly speaking need it. Had to have a baked potato of course, with sour cream, real bacon and fresh chives. On the side was garlic bread, because we just abosolutely needed another carb. Huh. The caesar turned out well, based the dressing on a recipe from one of my favourite chef's - Michael Smith (Food Network, lives in PEI). Find his recipe here.  The glass of red in this case was "Apothic Red", from California. One of SO's favourite these days. All in all, a good start to the grilling season.

Next time: really, probably don't need the garlic bread

Me: 9/10
SO: 9/10
SSO: 8/10