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Alright, not your average steak and potatoes, lol.  The recipe for the steak can be found on page 235 of the June 2007 Cooking Light.  We used flat iron steak instead of rib-eye and did not follow through to the pasta, simply bbqing it and serving it with the potatoes.
The potato recipe can be found [...]

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From the February 2001 Food & Wine.  We used a 1 1/2 lb London Broil for the meat, and about 2 lbs of Bok Choy.  Also 1/2 cup of broth instead of 3 tbls.  This naturally requires more cornstarch as well.  One caution, when you throw in the ginger, garlic and jalapeno into nearly-smoking oil, [...]

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Steak with Shiitake Mushroom Sauce

Page 138 in the April 2008 Cooking Light. We used flat-iron steak and inadvertently about half the shiitake, but it actually made quite a bit anyway.  The other thing that might make quite a difference, is how you fry your salt and peppered steak.  We used our well-seasoned iron skillet and the steaks were actually [...]

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Beef with Sugar Snap Peas

Page 198 in the April 2006 Cooking Light.  We pretty much followed the recipe exactly.  Had slightly more flank steak to work with, slightly less peas and probably more carrot.  The only thing we added was some minced garlic.  We had regular white rice with it also, as opposed to brown.  And off-dry or slightly [...]

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Ham Balls & Potato Salad

OK, so I have no clue where this “Ham balls” dish really comes from, and I am not quite sure what all is in them, but oh man are they good. I can tell you that they combine ground ham with ground beef and gram cracker crumbs. The real secret is in the sauce [...]

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