Skirt Steak, Grilled Veggies & Salad

This one is pretty simple. I just grilled some skirt steak and green onions, boiled some corn on the cobb, and threw together a quick green salad with sliced tomatoes and some grilled asparagus.

You may notice that I use asparagus pretty regularly -- but only since I discovered the pre-cooked grilled asparagus in the frozen food section at Trader Joe's. Now I just have a bag of aspargus in my freezer and can pull out a couple spears whenever I need them. Just heat them and serve.

Ham Salad & Tri-Color Bruschetta

A salad of romaine lettuce with diced ham and a medley of southwestern corn, black beans and red bell pepper with a dressing of Skywalker Ranch EVOO*, garlic and balsamic vinegar; served with toasted sourdough and tri-color tomato bruschetta. I added a little onion and cilantro to the bruschetta to give it a little pop.

We enjoyed this meal with a bottle of Castello Verrazzano Chianti Classico from Italy which we discovered during a trip to Tuscany in 2007.

I took this photo of a magnum size bottle during our visit to San Gimignano -- a beautiful little Tuscan hillside town.

*The Skywalker Ranch extra virgin olive oil was a gift from our friend Mary Lou Dudas who works at LucasFilm in San Francisco. It was a delicious bottle of olive oil -- great for making salad dressings.