Steak and Mushroom Kabobs (Kalyn Tries out her new Kabob Baskets)

Back in August when I was living the great life of a teacher on summer vacation, I visited a couple of friends, first in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and then on Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island. While I was there I had fun doing "foodie shopping" with my friend Tia, who is married to a great cook and is a very foodie eater herself. When I'm traveling, I like to buy souvenir cooking utensils. In a discount store in Portsmouth, Tia and I found some kabob baskets for the grill. They were meant to holdmeat and veggies like you'd put on one kabob, but instead of skewering it, you put it inside the basket and snap the lid shut. When I went to put the steak and mushrooms into the kabob baskets, I had too much, so I ended up cooking the mushrooms in a grill pan, but here's the steak inside the baskets.

This was a dinner where you take something that would already taste good, marinate it for a short time in something that delicious, and the end result has to taste wonderful. I ate this with my favorite salad, baby arugula tossed with olive oil, a tiny bit of lime juice, an even tinier bit of red wine vinegar, and salt and pepper. Yum.

Steak and Mushroom Kabobs
(Makes 2-3 servings)

Ingredients:
14-16 oz. Top Sirloin, New York Steak, or Petite Sirloin (use steak with less than 10% fat for South Beach Diet)
8 oz white mushrooms, washed and dried

Marinade Ingredients:
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1 T Worcestershire Sauce
1/2 tsp. Vege-Sal or salt
1/2 tsp. fresh ground black pepper
1 tsp. garlic powder

Instructions:

Cut steak into pieces about 1 1/2 inches square. Mix marinade ingredients. Put steak into large ziploc bag and marinate in refrigerator 1 hour. After 1 hour, wash mushrooms, dry, and cut larger mushrooms in half if needed to make them all the same size. Add mushrooms to marinating steak and marinate one hour more.

To cook preheat grill to high. Thread steak and mushrooms on skewers, or cook in grill basket or grill pan. Grill steak to desired doneness, I cooked mine about 4 minutes per side for medium rare. Next time I might reduce that to 3 minutes per side. I cooked the mushrooms about 10 minutes total, so put the steak and mushrooms on separate skewers if you don't like your meat too well done.

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South Beach Suggestions:

For the South Beach Diet phase one, this would be great simply served with Mary's Perfect Salad and Roasted Broccoli with Garlic. For phase two or three, add something like Georgette's Really Lemony Greek Pilafi or Lake Powell Spicy Rice.