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Steak Salad with Goat Cheese and Coconut Rum

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I’m not a big rum drinker. It’s generally too sweet for my tastes.

However, I do love to use it when I cook – as a deglazing agent. It sounds so formal to call it an “agent”!

One of my standby suppers is beef salad. I don’t, as a rule, lack for beef around here, but what do you do with all that round steak that you have in your freezer if you’re me? Well you can pound it out and stuff it (at some point I’ll share that recipe) or you can just pound it and pan fry it, like I did in some coconut oil with salt and pepper. But then, how do you serve it?

Well, if you’re me, you slice up some yellow and red bell pepper, an onion, and you throw them into the same really hot pan in which you cook your round steak, with a little butter, and you blacken them. And then as the pan gets good and sticky you toss in some coconut rum, just enough to loosen the goodies that have accumulated and stuck to the bottom of the pan. Turn down the heat, add back in your steak, put a lid on it for about two minutes, and turn it off completely.

Then, you make a lovely bed out of spinach or mixed greens, throw some of your coconut rum deglazed veggies on top of the greens, slice up a piece of your steak, add some crumbled goat cheese, and some olive oil, and viola. Lovely, fast, healthy and so flavorful. The sweet of the rum with the veggies, is an amazing contrast to the sharp tang of the goat cheese. Yum!

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What’s your favorite standby dish?

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About ~The South Dakota Cowgirl~

Jenn Zeller is the creative mind and boss lady behind The South Dakota Cowgirl. She is an aspiring horsewoman, photographer, brilliant social media strategist and lover of all things western.

After a brief career in the investment world to support her horse habit (and satisfy her mother, who told her she had to have a “real” job after graduating college), she finally took the leap and stepped away from a regular income; trading the business suit once and for all for cowgirl boots, a hat, and jeans. She has not looked back.

When Jenn first moved to The DX Ranch on the South Dakota plains, she never imagined she’d find herself behind a camera lens capturing an authentic perspective of ranching, and sharing it with others. Jenn has always been called to artistry, and uses music, writing, images, home improvement, and her first true love of horses to express her ranching passion.

Horses are the constant thread and much of her work centers around using her unique style of writing to share her horsemanship journey with others in publications such as CavvySavvy, the AQHA Ranching Blog, the West River Eagle, the family ranch website, and her own website.

Using photography to illustrate her stories has created other opportunities -- Jenn’s brand “The South Dakota Cowgirl” has grown to the level of social media “Influencer”. This notoriety has led to work with Duluth Trading Company, Budweiser, Wyoming Tourism, Vice, Circle Z Ranch and Art of the Cowgirl, to name a few. She also serves as a brand ambassador for Woodchuck USA, Arenus Equine Health, Triple Crown Feed and Just Strong fitness apparel. Her photography has been featured by Instagram, Apple, TIME Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Oprah Magazine. Jenn’s work has been published internationally, has been seen in several books and has graced the covers of several magazines.

Jenn became a social media influencer by accident when she started to explore Instagram as a way to share her life on the ranch with folks that don’t get to experience it. It’s grown into an incredible platform that she uses to empower women, create an environment for self improvement and share life on the ranch.

When she’s not working, she loves to drink coffee, play with her naughty border collie named Copper, start ranch colts, and run about the country chasing cans. Her mother still thinks she doesn’t have a “real” job.

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