first steak on the new grill

picked up a steak on the way home from work last night, and some eggplant. grilled the eggplant and topped it with a peppery soy-based sauce, straight out of one of my weber grilling books. the eggplant was slightly overcooked, or the sauce overpenetrated, or something. it was still delicious and i don't really care much for eggplant.

i haven't really been a big grocery steak purchaser. a couple weeks ago i bought a skirt steak, and then a "delmonico" steak, whatever that was. i seared both on the stove. the skirt came out most excellently, possibly the best steak (till then) that i'd cooked myself. the delmonico burned.

yesterday i got a new york strip -- holy crap is steak expensive! but i didn't want a crummy steak for my inaugural grilled steak. anyhow, it was outrageously expensive, but it came out tremendously good -- certainly better than i could have gotten for the same price at outback (sure, low bar) and nearly as good as at "san mateo prime". since i was doing onions, tomatoes, a portabello mushroom, and eggplant slices all at the same time as the steak, i had the lid open too much -- that's something that will be taken care of with more skill. as a result the grill marks on one side were slightly lackluster -- but i still got the finest steak grill marks i've ever personally made (to my memory).

also: it tasted great.

so, first grilled steak on the weber: success!

after that we grilled a can of sliced pineapples and a persimmon. the persimmon would have been really tasty had it been more ripe, or maybe it was a species issue -- persimmons tend astringe the hell out of my mouth and this one was no exception.

the pineapple came out great, if a tad undercooked. on one of them we poured a spoonful of laphroiag, which flamed up very entertainingly, and imparted a very subtle flavor. next time maybe some JD or other cheap whiskey -- laphroiag is too costly for such a treatment!