Lavinia,
Let me ask you something. One very easy, yet very good sauce my mother, and now myself make and have with steak, is a tomato sauce (my mom would can her own tomatoes, but I usually buy the stewed tomatoes
).Anyway, it's not cooked. Cloves of raw garlic, the tomatoes, basil, and a touch of olive oil. We dip our steak into this sauce. Now, my spelling I know is way off, so I'll spell it like it sounds:
og-ya. Is this familiar to you at all????
We wouldn't go anywhere the day we'd have that. It taste great, but left that garlic taste in your mouth all day.
Of course, depending on how strong you made it.
TIS