Saga of a soupy recipe
What goes into cube steak in a crockpot.
Earlier this week a friendposted a recipe on her timeline—at least, it was a partial recipe. A list ofingredients for a crockpot dinner. It didn’t have a cooking time or crockpotsetting, so I posted a note asking. But I thought surely it was a no-brainer:six hours on low would cook some cube steaks. I told Christian about it, and heagreed it sounded good for Sunday supper. When we can, we like to make a familyevent of Sunday supper—something a little different from the usual weeknightrushed meal. I gave him a choice of which was easier: bring the crockpot out tome and I’d cook, or he could take the recipe inside and he’d cook. He oftenlikes to spend Sunday cooking, so he chose the latter. And it’s a good thing.
This morning he came out withthe recipe in hand and said, “I need more direction.” That’s the differencebetween us: whereas I tend to barge ahead figuring I know how to cook,Christian wants precise instructions. I told him the best my friend could offerwas that she was looking for the recipe. He stood over my shoulder while I wentback to the Facebook web site where she’d found it. It had no more information.With Christian pointing here and there, we explored on the computer. Finally,he threw his hands up in the air and said “I’ll do some research.”
It was a good thing he did.The recipe called for six cube steaks and a couple of soups. I had intended toput the steaks in the crockpot and pour the combined coups over them. WhenChristian found the recipe it called for layering the steaks with onions, sothey didn’t just melt into one huge glop of cube steaks. Then there was onemore soup than my sketchy recipe had indicated, and it had to cook for sevenhours—that sent Christian scurrying to get it started.
We had dinner at seven-thirty,which is about the usual times for us (my goodness, it took me a long while toget used to that late dining).
Soupy cube steaks
Six cube steaks
One sweet onion
1 can cream of celery soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 envelope dry onion soup
½ soup can water
¼ tsp. black pepper
Layer steaks and sliced onionin crockpot. Separately mix together two cream soups, water, and pepper. Pourover steaks. Sprinkle dry soup mix on top (Christian chose to stir it into the soup mix).
Cook on low for seven hours.Serve with noodles, rice, or potatoes.
It was delicious. Both Jordanand Christian harped a little on cube steak being tough, but when they ate ittheir tune changed. Christian said it was the most tender he’d ever had, and Ifound it fork-tender. Plus lots of gravy—always important to me. It’s a keeperrecipe.
And a big hat tip to @HarrietGerick Hunt for sending starting us on this saga and yay to Christian for fixing a really good supper.
