Cooking without a kitchen no.5. Hardly cooking at all

Ok so now it's Saturday, it's just Martha and I again and she has already eaten. So steak for me, but how to give it a little lift? It was sirloin, from Tesco .... Oh yes! And it twas their finest. I did a little bit of searching for inspiration and turned to Alice waters book 'The art of simple food'...... The recipe that follows is hardly really a recipe but it really did make a difference ..... The lovely thing was that i also got all the herbs from the pots outside my back door

Serves 4

Ingredients

3 tablespoons mixed chopped herbs, such as rosemary, thyme, oregano, or marjoram
1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 grass-fed top sirloin steak (20 ounces and 1 1/2 inches thick), trimmed leaving 1/4 inch of fat (or your tesco version of course)
Directions

In a small bowl, mix together herbs, salt, and pepper. Rub herb mixture onto steak and place in a shallow dish. Drizzle steak with olive oil and let stand at room temperature for 1 hour.

Preheat, clean, and oil a grill or grill pan over high heat. Place steak on grill pan and cook 3 minutes. Rotate steak 110 degrees to make crosshatching grill marks, if desired, and continue cooking an additional 2 to 3 minutes. Turn and continue cooking 2 to 5 minutes more for a rare steak and 4 to 7 minutes for medium-rare.

Transfer steak to a cutting board and let stand 5 minutes before slicing and serving.

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