From broke soldier to broke college student, at least I still get to eat steak
Only side is potatoes, and those look sad but they aren't the star so who cares
by ClarkKentWannabe
31 Comments
TwoLoafsApps
Ain’t nothing bad about classic steak and spuds 💪🏻
creamyrips
You’re allowed to season your potatoes
Lonely_Original_5458
Steak is 10/10 …. But them taters…
Tremendoustip
Steak looks primo. Share the same love with those potatoes!
Key_Case6581
Sometimes those plain boiled potatoes with some salt and pepper are where it’s at.
Boring-Set-3234
Excellent cook on that steak!
Soupbell1
Did you season those canned potatoes with love?
Used-Tomato-8393
Broke teacher here. I will always find steak money in the budget 😂😂😂
One_Assignment7014
Looks beautiful, congratulations!
CompleteSavings6307
Bro, I will literally send you some seasoning care package if you want for free to help you out. I’m serious. I have an entire pantry cabinet dedicated to sauces and seasonings, and I will gladly send you some overflow. Unopened and factory sealed. My dad was in the army, my friends were all marines and navy. I grew up in the lifestyle.
If for no other reason to say thank you for your service to this country that has ALWAYS been great because of people like you. If you’re interested, please message me. I’ve got everything from parsley to saffron.
That steak looks amazing and perfectly cooked.
beckychao
Your steak is 10/10
Your potatoes are 1/10
Lets do this next time, because your steak is WAY TOO GOOD for those potatoes (edit: yes, these are the Kenji López-Alt crispy potatoes):
1. Preheat oven to 450 F 2. Halve the potatoes 3. Throw the potatoes in a pot, fill the pot with water. Salt the water, don’t skip this step. Bring the water to a boil. 4. When the water is at boil, lower it to just enough to keep it boiling but not a full roil. This prevents your potatoes from getting a bit goopy. 5. Boil the potatoes until they’re starting to fall apart, around 30-45 minutes (yes, you read that right). Edit: longer time is for crowded pots, if you’re cooking for a lot of people, get a bigger pot 6. Drain the potatoes 7. Put the potatoes back in the pot, and let the residual heat of the stove steam off the excess moisture. Move them around a bit. Are they falling part somewhat? Good. 8. Crush some garlic – like 5-8 cloves. If you have thyme, especially fresh, pick off a bunch of leaves. Fill a small pan with a layer of olive oil, and bring to medium low heat. Once it’s hot, fry the crushed garlic and thyme in the pan, until golden brown. Then use some sort of mesh strainer to dumb the oil in another small pan, just to catch the oil and separate the aromatics from the oil. Save everything. 9. Once the oil has cooled down, in a bowl, or the pot itself, you want to mix your potatoes with that oil and a generous amount of salt, pepper, and any other seasoning you like to day (onion powder and paprika is not a bad idea). 10. Lay out those potatoes on a pan, and put that pan in the oven for about 40-50 minutes, until the potatoes are super crispy and browned. 11. Top the potatoes with the crispy aromatics you used to flavor the oil. 12. If you have any fresh herbs – parsley or chives, for example – chop those and sprinkle them on, too.
Voila. I made milenesa chicken today, they’ll look like this:
I don’t comment here much, mostly a lurker. But damn. You nailed that steak!!
Glad_Roll1777
Use that GI BILL son! They had more seasoned potatoes during the Great Depression! Got DAM!
Bargle-Nawdle-Zouss
How did you prepare the steak sir?
jonu062882
Steak looks great, soldier 🫡
Potatoes on the other hand looks bland as a mfer , drop down and give me 20…
BigDaddyReptar
You literally could’ve just finished and seated the potatoes in the same pan you cooked the steak in while it rested and had 5x better potatoes.
SimplySamson
you arent broke enough to buy salt and pepper from a dollar store mate
give the potatoes love
MrBojangles_Vapian
Should done the potatoes while the steak was resting. Fry em up in the same pan and perfection.
Downunderfun45
Those potatoes look so bland 😂😂
Kaka-doo-run-run
Will everyone please stop cutting their steak, *incorrectly*, even, into a dozen pieces, for Christ’s sake?
There’s no way it won’t be cold by the time it gets to the table.
By cold, I mean that steak ain’t steaming hot, anymore, baby.
MrRandyLayhee
Steak looks great but those potatoes are a crime, mash em, fry ‘em, bake em, season them. Any of those are great options but the boil and toss on a plate is a shame
Kaka-doo-run-run
You know who cuts somebody’s steak into a bunch of pieces?
Assholes, and dummies, that’s who.
BaronVonSilver91
I saw the steak and said, ok soldier. Maybe yoy could render the fat a bit more but thats fuckin stellar in my book. Then I saw the potatoes and said, boy if you dont seaspn those things. Then I saw you acknowledged the potatoes looked bad but the steak looks good and who cares and now Im right back with you. Fuck those potatoes. Great steak.
Sorry_Term3414
Yet you punish yourself with those potatoes! 🫠
Captainspacedick69
Bro you were in the army. Did you not learn how to season a MRE?
ClarkKentWannabe
I’ve eaten and cleaned up, and can address the potatoes: I mashed em up, and put some butter with salt and pepper on, I just like to boil them and then mash it up on my plate, less to clean that way. Please forgive me everyone for worrying you
No_Hamster_6900
everyone roasted the potatoes but him…
Arratril
Not often someone posts in r/steak and gets roasted harder than their potatoes. Samwise would cry.
31 Comments
Ain’t nothing bad about classic steak and spuds 💪🏻
You’re allowed to season your potatoes
Steak is 10/10 …. But them taters…
Steak looks primo. Share the same love with those potatoes!
Sometimes those plain boiled potatoes with some salt and pepper are where it’s at.
Excellent cook on that steak!
Did you season those canned potatoes with love?
Broke teacher here. I will always find steak money in the budget 😂😂😂
Looks beautiful, congratulations!
Bro, I will literally send you some seasoning care package if you want for free to help you out. I’m serious. I have an entire pantry cabinet dedicated to sauces and seasonings, and I will gladly send you some overflow. Unopened and factory sealed. My dad was in the army, my friends were all marines and navy. I grew up in the lifestyle.
If for no other reason to say thank you for your service to this country that has ALWAYS been great because of people like you. If you’re interested, please message me.
I’ve got everything from parsley to saffron.
That steak looks amazing and perfectly cooked.
Your steak is 10/10
Your potatoes are 1/10
Lets do this next time, because your steak is WAY TOO GOOD for those potatoes (edit: yes, these are the Kenji López-Alt crispy potatoes):
1. Preheat oven to 450 F
2. Halve the potatoes
3. Throw the potatoes in a pot, fill the pot with water. Salt the water, don’t skip this step. Bring the water to a boil.
4. When the water is at boil, lower it to just enough to keep it boiling but not a full roil. This prevents your potatoes from getting a bit goopy.
5. Boil the potatoes until they’re starting to fall apart, around 30-45 minutes (yes, you read that right). Edit: longer time is for crowded pots, if you’re cooking for a lot of people, get a bigger pot
6. Drain the potatoes
7. Put the potatoes back in the pot, and let the residual heat of the stove steam off the excess moisture. Move them around a bit. Are they falling part somewhat? Good.
8. Crush some garlic – like 5-8 cloves. If you have thyme, especially fresh, pick off a bunch of leaves. Fill a small pan with a layer of olive oil, and bring to medium low heat. Once it’s hot, fry the crushed garlic and thyme in the pan, until golden brown. Then use some sort of mesh strainer to dumb the oil in another small pan, just to catch the oil and separate the aromatics from the oil. Save everything.
9. Once the oil has cooled down, in a bowl, or the pot itself, you want to mix your potatoes with that oil and a generous amount of salt, pepper, and any other seasoning you like to day (onion powder and paprika is not a bad idea).
10. Lay out those potatoes on a pan, and put that pan in the oven for about 40-50 minutes, until the potatoes are super crispy and browned.
11. Top the potatoes with the crispy aromatics you used to flavor the oil.
12. If you have any fresh herbs – parsley or chives, for example – chop those and sprinkle them on, too.
Voila. I made milenesa chicken today, they’ll look like this:
https://preview.redd.it/pb6z3vnnhlje1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=519f79c6a3510691a56f99df0abff9ff1fcf53fe
Would
Add an egg to it.
Sir are your potatoes raw and unseasoned
I don’t comment here much, mostly a lurker. But damn. You nailed that steak!!
Use that GI BILL son! They had more seasoned potatoes during the Great Depression! Got DAM!
How did you prepare the steak sir?
Steak looks great, soldier 🫡
Potatoes on the other hand looks bland as a mfer , drop down and give me 20…
You literally could’ve just finished and seated the potatoes in the same pan you cooked the steak in while it rested and had 5x better potatoes.
you arent broke enough to buy salt and pepper from a dollar store mate
give the potatoes love
Should done the potatoes while the steak was resting. Fry em up in the same pan and perfection.
Those potatoes look so bland 😂😂
Will everyone please stop cutting their steak, *incorrectly*, even, into a dozen pieces, for Christ’s sake?
There’s no way it won’t be cold by the time it gets to the table.
By cold, I mean that steak ain’t steaming hot, anymore, baby.
Steak looks great but those potatoes are a crime, mash em, fry ‘em, bake em, season them. Any of those are great options but the boil and toss on a plate is a shame
You know who cuts somebody’s steak into a bunch of pieces?
Assholes, and dummies, that’s who.
I saw the steak and said, ok soldier. Maybe yoy could render the fat a bit more but thats fuckin stellar in my book. Then I saw the potatoes and said, boy if you dont seaspn those things. Then I saw you acknowledged the potatoes looked bad but the steak looks good and who cares and now Im right back with you. Fuck those potatoes. Great steak.
Yet you punish yourself with those potatoes! 🫠
Bro you were in the army. Did you not learn how to season a MRE?
I’ve eaten and cleaned up, and can address the potatoes: I mashed em up, and put some butter with salt and pepper on, I just like to boil them and then mash it up on my plate, less to clean that way. Please forgive me everyone for worrying you
everyone roasted the potatoes but him…
Not often someone posts in r/steak and gets roasted harder than their potatoes. Samwise would cry.