Todays Menu: Beef Cubed Steak w/ Mashed Potatoes and Fresh Green Beans
For Breakfast it was Skillet Potatoes and Ham for Breakfast. I used 1 package of Simply Potatoes Steakhouse Seasoned Diced Potatoes and a package of Meijer Diced Ham to prepare it. Just cook
the Potatoes according to the package instructions and with about 5 minutes of cooking time left add the Diced Ham. I topped it with a sprinkle of Sargento Reduced Fat Cheddar/Jack Cheese. Just love this skillet meal! Started out with snow showers and then later all rain, a high of 40 degrees and windy. Not much to do today, just did some cleaning around the house. For Dinner tonight Im preparing a Beef Cubed Steaks w/ Mashed Potatoes and Fresh Green Beans.
I had bought a package of Beef Cubed Steak at Jungle Jims International Market yesterday and having them tonight. We always buy our Cubed Steak from Meijer, they have best tasting and 
leanest Cubed Steak around. So I thought I would give Jungle Jims a try. This is one of the few times I use Beef is when I have Cubed Steak.
I prepared the same as I do the Meijer Cubed Steak. Seasoned them with a new Seasoning Im trying out from Wild Idea Buffalo, Omnivore Salt. It consists of Natural Sea Salt, Black Pepper, 
Organic Red Pepper, and Organic Fennel. Next I dusted them in Flour that I had mixed with a bit of Hungarian Paprika. Shook off the excess Flour and pan fried them in Extra Light Olive Oil, about 4 minutes per side. They came out delicious! Excellent flavor and very tender. Well Ive found a second place I can purchase good Cubed Steak! Ive left more info and a link to the Wild Idea Buffalo Omnivore Salt, by the way its an excellent Seasoning!
To go with the Cubed Steak you always have to have Mashed Potatoes! I prepared some Bob Evans Mashed Potatoes. Just microwave for 6 minutes and serve, just as good as homemade, if not 
better. I also heated up a jar of Heinz Mushroom Brown Gravy to top the Cubed Steak and the Mashed Potatoes.
For a second side I heated up the leftover Canned Green Beans from the other night. I also baked a loaf of Pillsbury French Bread. For Dessert later a bowl of Breyers Carb Smart Chocolate Ice 
Cream.
Cube Steak
Cube steak is a cut of beef, usually top round or top sirloin, tenderized by fierce pounding with a meat tenderizer, or use of an electric tenderizer. The name refers to the shape of the indentations left by that process (called cubing). Many professional cooks insist that regular tenderizing mallets cause too much mashing to produce a proper cube steak, and insist on either using specialized cube steak machines, or manually applying a set of sharp-pointed rods to pierce the meat in every direction. This is the most common cut of meat used for chicken fried steak.
In Canada as well as in some parts of the United States, cube steak may be called a minute steak, because it can be cooked quickly.
Others distinguish minute steak as:
* simply referring to the cut, which is not necessarily tenderized;
* thinner than cube steak (hence does not need tenderizing);
* cut from sirloin or round, while cube steak cut is from chuck or round.
The term minute steak is also used in the United Kingdom, where the term cube steak is little known.
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