We had Lenny and Sabriena here for the weekend in sunny and hot Scottsdale. We had a light dinner at Armitage Wine Bar and a delicious lunch on Saturday at T.Cooks restaurant, which has become my favorite restaurant here since settling in the Valley of the Sun from NYC a mere ten months ago. As a former NY foodie, like my son Fred, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of food in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area.
Now it was time to get to some serious cooking of my own. Trips to the gym are made necessary by my frequent eating out, so when I watched Bobby Flay cook a barbeque while I gazed from my treadmill at the Village Health Club, I decided to give my Weber a try.
The next day I printed the recipes for his Grilled Prime Rib Steaks with Bourbon-BBG Baste and Stacked Tomato Salad with Black Olive Tapenade and Sweet Basil Dressing.
I sauntered down to our amazing local gourmet supermarket, AJ'S, which rivals and is even better than my former NYC haunts of Agata and Valentina
and Citarella's. Lucky for me the aged prime ribs steaks were reduced to $17.99, so I bought three of them. To make the recipe easier I bought Gold Label Reserve seasoning rub, and used Blues City Cafe's barbecue sauce, purchased when we crossed Memphis last summer. AJ's has a fabulous produce departments, where I found Tuscan melon, and red (yes RED) corn.
Harvey manned the Weber, and grilled the steaks to perfection. They were truly delicious and worth every penny. The stacked tomato salad was made with heirloom tomatoes, and I was lucky to find fresh California made bufalo mozzarella. Layered with the tapenade and the fresh sweet basil dressing this was a visual and edible winner. After all, I had to wow my future daughter-in-law Sabriena, who is a caterers daughter.
Lenny, the Santa Monica foodie and wine lover, got us a Chalone reserve Pinot Noir, which after the margaritas served pre-meal, made me quite tipsy.
Dinner was finished with Illly decaf, AJ'S apple pie, and cinnamon vanilla and butter pecan gelato. Treadmill, here I come.
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Probably the best way to perpare prime rib steaks is to purchase a whole cut instead of the steaks... prepare it in the oven... very rare... and then cut the steaks and finish on the gril... it's excellent!
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