Recipe of the week: Summer picnic: Skirt steak and a shady tree

Chef Paul Virant, who was named one of 2007's Best New Chefs by Food & Wine, offers his recipe for skirt steak with salsa verde sprinkled with ricotta salata.

Chef Paul Virant throws a family picnic every summer at his parents’ Missouri horse farm, said Nick Fairchild in Food & Wine. Named one of 2007’s Best New Chefs by this magazine, Virant oversees the kitchen at Vie in Western Springs, Ill. This year’s picnic started off with sour-cherry gin slings.

The main course was skirt steak, and side dishes included warm potato salad. Among the wines that Virant served was a 2007 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling, and peach crisps were served for dessert. This picnic is best enjoyed outdoors, preferably under a shade tree.

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