Make a Steak Dinner Tonight Because You're Worth It
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Make a Steak Dinner Tonight Because You're Worth It

If you know how to use a stove, cut up vegetables, and mix things in a bowl, you can make this three-course steak dinner. No excuses.

Steak is a signifier of a special evening. Maybe you're trying to impress your new boo-thing with a platter of prime rib, or celebrating a job promotion with a New York strip. But cooking steak can be intimidating when the stakes (pun intended) are high. Undercook your cut, and it will be a mouthful of bloody meat juice; overcook it, and it will become a tough, brown mat.

What if we told you there was an idiot-proof three-course meal that you could whip up in just an hour that included a gorgeous seared steak with fancy mushrooms? You'll see soon enough that it is possible—thanks to The Dinner Bell host Julia Ziegler-Haynes.

In The Dinner Bell, Julia travels to beautiful Point Reyes in Northern California to hang with photographer David Benjamin Sherry before he embarks on a month-long road trip. To fuel him up for his journey, she prepares a bona fide feast of pan-seared steak with pepper pan sauce and hen of the woods mushrooms; a purple cabbage salad with hazelnuts, blue cheese, celery, and a creamy dill sauce; and a beautiful finale of strawberries topped with fresh whipped cream, lemon zest, and macadamia nuts.

RECIPE: Pan-Seared Blade Steak with Hen of the Woods Mushrooms

Sounds like some fine dining, right? But each of these dishes can easily be prepared at home. Yes, even by you, or your incompetent but well-meaning significant other. If you know how to use an oven, cut up vegetables, and make mix stuff together, you can make this gorgeous steak dinner No more excuses.

Tonight, bring out the white tablecloth: We're having steak.