I love cooking, as you know, and I love to find, or come up with new recipes! Over this last weekend I tried two recipes. One that I wanted to try for some time now is a potato recipe that I found from the site Walking on Sunshine. Her recipe: Bacon Cheese Potatoes. I thought that this would pair perfectly with another recipe that I got from my friend Conor Bofin over at One Man’s Meat. His recipe: Steak Frites. Then I added to this my simple recipe: Simple Sauteed Mushrooms!
I prepared the potatoes first as they were to be cooked in the crockpot. This simple recipe consisted of bacon, cheese and potatoes. Slice four red potatoes thinly, grate plenty of cheddar, and dice some bacon. Lois indicates that you can pre-cook the bacon, or not. I did not, but next time I make this I will because of the amount of fat. I used non-stick spray in my crock pot then layered potatoes, then bacon, then cheese. Lois likes to add salt and pepper on top of each layer. Forget the salt as the cheese and bacon add plenty! I was able to knock out three layers, dotted it with butter, and after 6 hours on low here is the finished recipe!
Bacon Cheese Potatoes
Now Conor’s steak recipe was a perfect pairing with these potatoes! And, it is a simple recipe too! I purchased two rib eye steaks that were about 3/4″ thick. Taking a big bunch of fresh thyme, I stripped the leaves off the stems and chopped up the thyme and then pressed the steaks into the thyme. The recipe says to get a cast iron pan very hot and then add 1 teaspoon of salt. I forgot this step. After adding the salt you are to place the steaks in the pan. It was at this point that I added the salt. The important thing with this recipe is not to disturb the steaks. I cooked them for 5 minutes then turned them over and cooked another 4 minutes. And, they came out beautiful. Check these out!
The Steaks
I cooked the mushrooms while the steaks were sizzling in the pan. Another easy recipe. Add butter and garlic to a hot pan, and when the aroma of the garlic comes up add the mushrooms and saute. Here they are!
The Mushrooms
And here is the finished dinner!
One easy dinner!
The flavors of this dinner: Amazing! Worth the time and one that will make your family and friends think you spent hours in the kitchen!
Have a terrific Tuesday! Thanks for stopping in for a bite! Be well! ^..^
Life in the Foothills 
those mushrooms looked most tempting for me…ni’ll be over as soon as i get home and fire up that magic carpet!
I will have the steak, potatoes and mushrooms at the ready! Looking forward to watching the landing of the magic carpet!
My favorite, steak and potatoes. Recipes sound easy, which is always good, and the final photo is mouth watering. Thanks for the combo of recipes.
It was delish!
You’re making me hungry!
All of the components of these recipes went well together! The leftover steak: Great! 🙂 I want more!