You're doing yourself a disservice by not cooking that steak on a charcoal grill instead of in a pan!
Just kidding. I do like grilled steak, but my favorite way (which also happens to be the easiest way) is to cook a steak in a hot cast iron skillet. The way it rapidly sears the outside locks in so much juice and flavor. It's not a good method for pan sauce, though, unless you like it with little black flecks of metal.
??? Sounds like you have something wrong with your pan. Pieces of metal shouldn't come off of it.
If it was alive, and someone has a recipe for preparing it, I probably like it.
I enjoy meat of all kinds, but I get a particular perverse enjoyment out of "weird" meats that most people can't stomach. Any kind of pickled animal part, or stuff like head cheese and jaeternice are all delicious, IMO.
I was going to rail on you about frenching up a steak.......but this sounds awesome.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/steak-au-poivre-recipe.html
Leave the sauce off of mine, but the peppercorn crust is just right in my world.
It is freaking amazing. I don't use a ton of the sauce, and honestly mix a lot of it with the rice that I get as a side, but the peppercorn is awesome. I think Janny uses that recipe and it's awesome.
But is it awesome?
I'm a fruitarian. Only eat fruit that has fallen off the tree so that it is, in fact, already dead. Everything else is just too brutal to comprehend.
Okay, it doesn't actually have to be red meat. What is your favorite meat dish? Steak, chicken parmesan, pork chops and applesauce, barbecued pork, etc., etc.
I usually eat mostly chicken, but when I'm pregnant I want red meat. I mostly crave steaks and gyros.
Before I turned to a vegetarian it was steak.
I am sure I will get reamed for this, but my meatloaf. It is my comfort food go to.