Sam & Harry’s Steak Salad with Fennel, Blue Cheese & Apple-Walnut Vinaigrette

Name: Sam & Harry’s Steak Salad with Fennel, Blue Cheese & Apple-Walnut Vinaigrette
Ingredients: ¼ cup [30 g] walnuts; ¾ cup [85 g] chopped tart-sweet apple, such as Fuji or Honeycrisp; ¾ cup [85 g] chopped tart-sweet apple, such as Fuji or Honeycrisp; ¾ cup [85 g] chopped tart-sweet apple, such as Fuji or Honeycrisp; ¼ cup [60 ml] apple cider vinegar; 1½ Tbsp chopped shallots; 1 tsp Dijon mustard; 1 Tbsp packed light brown sugar; ¼ tsp salt; ½ cup [70 g] thinly sliced red onions; Two 8-oz [230-g] filet mignons; Heaping ½ tsp kosher salt; ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper; 1 Tbsp vegetable oil; 1 fennel bulb, halved, cored, and thinly sliced into half moons (about 1 cup [100 g]); ⅔ cup [85 g] crumbled blue cheese

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Once Upon a Chef, the Cookbook

By Jennifer Segal

Published 2018

About

This recipe was given to me by Michael Sternberg, one of my first mentors in the restaurant business. Michael was my boss at Sam & Harry’s, a fine-dining steakhouse in Washington, D.C., that was “the place to be” back in the ’90s. If you’re old enough, you might remember the scene from the movie The American President when the character played by Michael Douglas says, “I’m gonna go to Sam and Harry’s, I’m gonna order a big steak, and I’m gonna make a list of everyone who tried to

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Washington D.C.
Gluten-free

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