What's for Dinner, Sun., May 17, 2026

[Morbius]

8. Cube steak

I have always made cube steaks the way my mother did, frying them in butter and topped with Worcestershire sauce. Dry and chewy but delicious. I recently learned you can make them in a slow cooker (instant pot) and that's what I did tonight. I sliced one white onion and a pound of button mushrooms and layered my instant pot with onions/mushrooms and (seasoned) steaks. I mixed a can of cream of mushroom and a can of French onion soups with beef broth and poured this mixture over the layers. I sealed up the instant pot and cooked this on high for about four hours.

After this I pulled the steaks on the side and thickened my gravy with a corn starch slurry. The steaks came out moist and kind of tender (not quite tender enough for the wife, alas) and really, really tasty. I served the gravy over egg noodles and had some steamed (frozen) corn on the side.

Yeah, I gave my new oven the night off. Really hot in Chicagoland tonight.