A grass fed beef cube steak seasoned with sea salt, cracked pepper and crushed garlic and simply sauteed until caramelized served along side a lightly poached lobster tail with creamy melted butter.

As a regular reader you know Maggie.  If not, here is a bit on Maggie.  She is my god-daughter and I have been helping take care of her since she was born.  She is the apple of my eye, so to say, as are her brother and sister.  But, Maggie, is different, she is a bit of the “wild child” after all, how many 3 year old do you know, have claimed they are “foodies”.  The funny thing is, she really does like food, from espresso to the stinkiest blue cheese out there.  I promised her two things before her recent 3 birthday.  One, she could have her first sleep-over with me and two, we would eat lobster together, we see them swimming in their little tank at the Ferry Plaza all the time.  Laudalino was in Las Vegas or as Maggie calls it Lost Vegas, for business this week, so it was time to have Magalicious over!

We decided on the dinner menu during an outing to Half Moon Bay (we picked up the best strawberries and sweet peas) – she wanted steak, lobster and sweet English peas as well as something Chocolate!  When I ran to the market to pick up dinner, I saw some great looking cube steaks and suddenly remembered a way my grandmother use to cook them for us – simple with butter, crispy browned garlic pieces and salt and pepper – I loved how they were slightly browned (love the drippings in the pan even more) but still cooked to perfection.  I have not had them in years, so I picked a couple up along with one Lobster Tail (Larry Lobster as Maggie named him) and headed home.

We started the evening with a fine Passion fruit juice that I have been meaning to mix with something to make it more adult friendly, but once we busted it open, it was gone – we were loving it!  Then we proceeded to cook dinner together.  While I cooked the cube steaks, Maggie, had conversations with her new friend Larry, mind you, she kept telling him how good he was going to taste – I wish I had a video camera handy! Right before the punch into a boiling bath of salted water and lemon, Maggie, gave him a hug and a kiss and said she would see him soon – got to love that!

I was no intentions of documenting this dinner but as I was putting our meal onto the plates, Maggie grabbed a couple napkins and started setting the table and proceeded to tell me we had to get ready to take pictures like on “Chez Us”;  I was touched, she really wanted to do this and to be a part of it!  So, I handed her the little camera and we both shot away.  What a fun evening we had dining on a fine steak and lobster dinner finished by bowls of bittersweet chocolate ice cream.