Episode 38: Cooking a steakhouse dinner at home: How to transform your kitchen into a restaurant-style meal for family and friends!

Are you intimidated to cook steak at home? 

This week, we’re talking about turning your kitchen into a steakhouse! Sometimes it’s fun to cook an extra-special meal at home, and this episode offers our best tips and tricks for preparing steak (hint: we each do it differently). And since the sides are usually the best part of any steakhouse dinner, we share some of our favorites — from gratins to baked potatoes, and garlicky greens to our must-have salads. We also make sure to include a few sweet treat suggestions to round out the meal.

Tune in for all the ways to create a delicious steakhouse-style meal in the comfort of your own home!

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Links to recipes and favorites from this week’s show:

• Reverse-seared steak recipe by Kenji Lopez Alt via Serious Eats

• Garlic butter roasted mushrooms via Smitten Kitchen 

• Crispy smashed potatoes via Simply Recipes

• Ina Garten’s potato gratin with fennel

• Swiss chard and sweet potato gratin via Smitten Kitchen 

• Saveur’s brussels sprouts gratin

• Gooey butter cake by Melissa Clark via NY Times  

• Claire Saffitz’s Key Lime Pie

• Alden’s key lime ice cream sandwiches

• Jim Lahey’s no-knead bread recipe via NY Times

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