St Johns Newsletter June | Page 11

LETTER FROM FOOD & BEVERAGE INSTRUCTIONS Prep the grill and get ready to fire up. Season the flank steak and leave covered at room temp while remaining ingredients are prepped. Wash and dry the squash and bell peppers, slice squash diagonally into 3/4” slices, the peppers into large sections, onion in 1/2” thick slices and toss all lightly in Ken’s. Try to keep onions in whole slices, cover and marinate 30 minutes. Slice washed tomatoes 1/2” thick, season with salt and pepper, cover and keep at room temp. Light grill while prep items are marinating, and once coals are hot spread out the spread, leaving a section with no coals for resting grilled items. Grill steak to desired done-ness and grill squash/pepper/onions until just tender. It’s important to get a good grill char on veggies, but not burnt, so move to cool side if necessary. Allow grilled ingredients to cool 15 minutes or so before cutting. Add croutons to large salad bowl, cut grilled veggies into finger size pieces and add croutons, crumble in cheese and add basil. Toss all ingredients together, very lightly drizzling with enough vinaigrette to moisten, rest for 10 minutes. Arrange tomato slices around large salad plates or dinner plates, top with grilled vegetable mixture and then with thin bite-size slices of flank steak. Grind some fresh peppermill pepper over salad and sprinkle with a few flakes of salt if needed. Serve a little dressing on the side as the salad will soak it up. Eat! Don’t be bread bashful, it’s fine to warm and eat the other 1/2 baguette with the salad. 11