Grilled romaine and asparagus salad (best so far) and a filet!

tarheelmatt

Salad was off the chain good!!!! 

Grilled romaine salad and asparagus consisted of the below: 

• Half a romaine heart
• One bunch of asparagus (peeled the stalks)
• Red onion
• Cucumber
• Sweet peppers (the little ones in the bag)
• Goat cheese
• Bacon
• Balsamic dressing (homemade)
• Canola oil
• Salt 
• Pepper

Grilled romaine, peppers, and asparagus to get a nice char.  Simple canola oil and salt and pepper.  

Filets were awesome.  Cooked mine with coffee seasoning (1 part Lawry's season salt, 1 part coffee (fresh grind), 1 part sugar, 1/2 part pepper).  Mine cooked to 120°.  Wife's filet was seasoned with salt and pepper.  

Wife made some cheese bread and some sweet potato balls (forgot to take a done picture) for me and my little girl.  My wife doesn't care for sweet potatoes.  


The start of the grilled romaine salad






Going on the grill...





Added some bacon around the edges so the flames wouldn't be crazy...





Grilled salad portion is complete....




The meat is ready...











Filet down!  Filet down! 




Salad before dressed....





With the filet... I tell you, I'd rather had the salad only.  It was that good.  




The bread.... Dang it was good!  



Drizzled with the balsamic vinaigrette  






That's it folks!  Thanks for taking a look.  

jcaspary

Very nice.  

Tinyfish

Looks great...but...title should be filet first and salad second.LoL

But who am I to say. My rule of thumb is....The cow eats the salad and I eat the cow.LOL

tarheelmatt

Tinyfish said:

Looks great...but...title should be filet first and salad second.LoL

But who am I to say. My rule of thumb is....The cow eats the salad and I eat the cow.LOL

Haha... You didn't experience this salad.  It was pretty damn tasty.  

Legume

That salad looks amazing!  Excellent!

tarheelmatt

Legume said:

That salad looks amazing!  Excellent!

It was.  Made a grilled romaine couple weeks ago.  I have been craving one since then.  Had some asparagus I needed to cook, and thought I would incorporate with the grilled romaine.  It was a homerun!  The goat cheese and bacon really topped things off.  

jls9595

dang, and I've never done grilled romaine before. I will now. 

entire post is impressive

theyolksonyou

Nice. Just discovered the joy of grilled romaine recently thanks to you. 

tarheelmatt

jls9595 said:

dang, and I've never done grilled romaine before. I will now. 

entire post is impressive

Thank you @jls9595 !  theyolksonyou said: Nice. Just discovered the joy of grilled romaine recently thanks to you.  Thanks Jason!  

Hawg Fan

I love the grilled romain salad and yours looks delicious.  Excellent!

Mattman3969

Damnit man!!!!!

tarheelmatt

Thanks @Hawg Fan and @Mattman3969   

JohnnyTarheel

Mighty Fine!!

Skiddymarker

Nice, very nice. Grilled Romaine is a favourite around our place. Costco has 6 romaine hearts for <$4 most times, pretty reasonable for a salad. Also, using a Misto to get some oil on the split heart makes it very easy. Your ad ons are out of the park. 

NPHuskerFL

Bravo Zulu!!!

johnmitchell

Awesome as always..Salad does look great..

tarheelmatt

Thanks fellas!

stlcharcoal

Good looking dinner.  Here's my buddy's recipe on the grilled romaine.  Not much to it:  http://grillinfools.com/blog/2009/05/11/grilled-romaine-lettuce-thats-right-salad-on-the-grill/

tarheelmatt

stlcharcoal said:

Good looking dinner.  Here's my buddy's recipe on the grilled romaine.  Not much to it:  http://grillinfools.com/blog/2009/05/11/grilled-romaine-lettuce-thats-right-salad-on-the-grill/

Thanks!  

You're right, there isn't much to it at all, but is very good.  This was my second time doing it and wish I would have done it sooner.