This is one of those recipes that would have horrified me back in my low-fat days-and it’s so good! If you don’t have a food processor, you can make this by hand; it will just take some vigorous mixing.
YIELD: Roughly 12 tablespoons, each with 1 gram of carbohydrates, only a trace of fiber, and 4 grams of protein.
INGREDIENTS:
- 1/2 pound blue cheese, crumbled
- 3/4 cup softened butter
- 1 or 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
- 2 or 3 drops Tabasco
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Put all the ingredients in your food processor, and run it until it’s well blended and smooth. Taste it-do you want a bit more mustard? A little salt and pepper? A dash more Tabasco? Go ahead and add it.
- When it’s so good you want to cry, put it in a pretty dish and chill it. Then drop a good, rounded tablespoonful over each serving of freshly grilled or broiled steak.
NOTE:
- If you have some steak-loving people on your Christmas list-and hey, who doesn’t?-a ball of Blue Cheese Steak Butter wrapped in foil makes a nice present.
