I was so excited when I saw this cover. I *love* steak frites. I remember having this several years ago in a psuedo-bistro in NYC ( “lucky-strike” was the name ?). Anyway what could be better than this ?
The hardest part here was the french-fries. I bought a fry-cutter, and a deep-fryer at Target. However it was still pretty tedious. The cutter didn’t work that well,
the last 10% of the potato alwasys seemed to get stuck. Clearly there’s some trick here. Then the frying and refrying was a bit of a pain as well. If I was going to do it all again – I would probably do frozen french-fries, that’s an easy cheat on this recipe.
The steak was very straight-forward. I bought some NYC strip and fried in a pan. The sauce was wonderfully easy. I did a side salad with orange, radish, advocado and a apricot vinagrette ( 2 tbsp lime juice, 2 tbsp o.j., 2 tbsp olive oil and salt and pepper in a blender, then add 2 tbsp hot water in the blender to emulsify). This is a great salad that I make all the time.
The verdict ? The sauce and the steak were absolutely fabulous. As Sebastian would say – “So good!” 
The fries were good, but I’m not sure they were worth the trouble. I’d definitely do this recipe again but take a shortcut on the fries.
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1 Richard // Jun 27, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Dude, you can’t cheat on the recipe, surely frozen fries would not have been as good.
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