The Mansfields: Steak with Pear and Goat Cheese Salad

Steak with Pear and Goat Cheese Salad

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This meal is quick and delicious! It was a lot of food, you could honestly eat the salad alone but the steak was the perfect compliment!

Step 1: Start with your piece of meat (filet or ribeye) I think filet is best because it is more lean but this week was a ribeye week :)

To make the marinade:

Whisk together in a bowl....

1/4 cup red wine vinegar

1/4 cup soy sauce

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 tablespoon of honey

1 teaspoon of minced garlic

Pour the marinade over your steaks and let them sit for 30 min on each side

Step 2: Make your dressing! One of the best wedding gifts I got was the salad dressing emulsifier from Williams Sonoma (thanks to Kalee!) And it has made making homemade dressing 10x easier! But a good old fashioned whisk works great too!

To make the dressing combine...

1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar

1/2 olive oil

1 tsp of sugar (you can omit this to make it lower calorie)

Step 3: Toast your pecans! You could also do walnuts or almonds in this salad but I love pecans!

Just heat your over to 400 degrees and toast them for 15 minutes!

Step 4: Slice 1 bartlett pear and cut your goat cheese into small chunks (it is a very creamy cheese so sometimes this is challenging but well worth it)