Horseradish

From Bobby Flay’s Grill It! (Page 27) this is Grilled Rib Eye Steak with Horseradish sauce. The sauce is a combination of Horseradish, sour cream and chives. When it came to food, my father once called me a “Young-Foogie” (not an Old-Foogie) because I didn’t try a lot of different things. I guess horseradish was one of those things. I didn’t need to try horseradish, because I knew before trying it that I would not like it. Guess what – I don’t like horseradish – I was right all along. But in this sauce the bite of the horseradish is tempered by the sour cream. I really don’t like sour cream, that much by itself either – but together on a Rib Eye it really is a great blend of flavors. I made the sauce first and put it in the fridge for about an hour while I got everything else ready. The Rib Eye was grilled the Booby Flay way – canola oil on both sides with a generous dusting of Kosher salt and ground pepper. The salt, but especially the pepper together with flame, forms a crust on the outside of the steak – perfect. When the steaks came off the grill, I let them rest first, then dobbed on the sauce. I added some fresh thyme and this became a steak meal that could have been served in the finest steakhouses nationwide. When you grill with Bobby Flay you gotta have an open mind to new ingredients and especially new spices. I am now a Horseradish user.

What was on? Jackson Browne. It had been awhile since I had listened to The Pretender. It’s a great song and great album about hard work and struggle but about never giving up. It’s a look at life’s tough journey.


“Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender”


I think singer-song writers tell the best stories. Maybe I think that because I am from Nashville, but no matter where you are from you must agree that Jackson Browne is one of the best singer-song writers of any genre and in any time.


“And when the morning light comes streaming in
I’ll get up and do it again. Amen”


Grill it again – Amen