Marinated Steak with Caramelized Onions

I love to try out new recipes no matter if they are ones I created in my head, ones I found on-line or in a cookbook. Over the years, I have tried recipes from a lot of chefs, one who seems to match my cooking style is Rachael Ray. As a mother, you've got to appreciate the concept of a 30 Minute Meal! Rachael Ray often says that her recipes are just methods. She encourages her viewers to take her recipes and make them their own. I "Lori-ize" almost everything I cook, tayloring the recipe to my families taste. I decided to combine these two ideas and what you see here is the result. Each week I'll create a meal based on a recipe and let you know what we thought. I will give you the original recipe and let you know how I "Lori-ized" it. Hope you enjoy Tasty Tuesday!

This Saturday was Richard's birthday so I decided it was time to try out a new steak recipe. I decided upon Marinated Steak with Caramelized Onions from KraftFoods.com

The only changes I made to this recipe were: I used a skirt steak. Have I mentioned how much we love this cut?? I also grilled the steak instead of cooking it under the broiler.

(yes I made Richard photograph his birthday dinner)

This was really good. The steak was very moist and had a great taste. I was kind of shocked that it didn't have a more balsamic taste, but enjoyed the balance of the sweet sugar and the pepper of the steak sauce combined with the tang of the dressing. The onions were really good too. I am not a huge fan of onions, but I actually ate most of mine. The onions took on a very sweet taste with the pepper from the steak sauce it was a nice balance.

I like the fact that the steak and onions tasted really good together, but they also tasted delicious on their own. You could easily make this steak again without the onions or make the onions to top something else or as a side dish.

We will certainly save this recipe to try again. It was really good. I don't think there is anything else I would change for the next time.