Iron-wood-steaks-renaissance Style Recipe

How to make it

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• Take your wood slats and put them in a big zip lock bag
• fill the zip lock bag with whatever meat sauce you like and marinade these sticks for about a week in the sealed zip locked bag.
• shake em, roll em- move em -all week
• the day your going to use them, just wipe off the globs of sauce
• preheat your oven and cast iron to four hundred degrees(thick hot pads needed)
• slice the round steak into one inch thick strips. try to keep them as long as slats and meat presses
• on your preheated cast iron griddle drizzel some olive oil
• now lay a slat- then a meat strip -and so on until you build a wood meat -wood- meat -wood- meat- wood sidewalk..make sure its wood on both ends and not meat strips
• grind the fresh black pepper over the top
• thin slice the onion and cover over it all.
• cover with two cast iron meat presses or a lightly oiled cast iron skillet..you can fill the skillet with water for weight, if you dont have meat presses
• the meat presses work the best
• bake this at four hundred degrees for 15 minutes
• steak should be just turning medium in the middle
• remove the meat presses and quickly broil for 5 to 10 minutes
• serve this right off the cast iron
• if you surround the meat with roasted seasoned potatoes it looks like food from a renaissance festival cookout
• i have not tried this over char coal yet...but im gonna this summer