How to make grilled steak and green bean salad

If you don’t happen to have cold steak and cooked beans lurking in your refrigerator, you can easily make this recipe from scratch. (Lynda Balslev/TasteFood)

This installment of Salad Days of Summer is a recipe for your dinner repertoire.

Steak salads make for a fresh and substantial bowl that you can call a meal. I call it a leftovers salad — it was, in fact, composed of leftover steak and green beans when it was prepared — but “grilled steak salad” sounds more enticing.