Simply tell us what you cooked or ate today. Photos appreciated but not at all necessary.
What did you cook or eat today (November 2023)?
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rascal
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Cup of earl and biscuits. I just had a piece of toast with vegemite. Tonight is dinner club. A Japanese joint.
Russ
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This Saturday I'm gonna go all out.
3 course
1. Buratta on bell pepper relish, garlic bread
2. Entrecote, demiglace, roast potatoes and Brussels sprouts
3. Two Panna cotta, Mango and lime
3 course
1. Buratta on bell pepper relish, garlic bread
2. Entrecote, demiglace, roast potatoes and Brussels sprouts
3. Two Panna cotta, Mango and lime
medtran49
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I'd say pork loin and sone kind of paste rubbed in. Given there is an avocado in upper right corner, going to go with an annatto and/or chile based rub/paste.I just spent close to five minutes trying to figure out if the photo in the OP is pork or chicken, and how it was cooked.
CD
MrsT also had prosciutto and melon as a starter.
Steak and kidney pie. The filling was my best work yet and has completely converted my steak and kidney hating son! The pastry was ok but not sterling. Gluten free pastry is always hit n miss, usually because what I really want is a suet pudding. Using flat iron steak (chuck steak to those of us old enough not to fooled by a rebrand) rather than bog standard stewing steak was worth every penny.
Made peanut butter apple crumble for pud but peeps are to full for that at the moment. Small amount of carrot and swede mash for me as the pie was plenty enough on it’s own.
Made peanut butter apple crumble for pud but peeps are to full for that at the moment. Small amount of carrot and swede mash for me as the pie was plenty enough on it’s own.
Woke up hungry.
About 11 am, I chopped up some bacon, fried it up nice and crispy, fried an egg in the bacon fat, slathered half a baguette with butter, mustard, mayo and topped with sliced tomatoes, freshly chopped chiles, and cheese. Bacon and egg on top. YUM!
About 11 am, I chopped up some bacon, fried it up nice and crispy, fried an egg in the bacon fat, slathered half a baguette with butter, mustard, mayo and topped with sliced tomatoes, freshly chopped chiles, and cheese. Bacon and egg on top. YUM!
Looks good.
Flat Iron Steak and Chuck Steak are different cuts here. They come from the same part of the cow, but a Flat Iron Steak is not the same, from my experience. People here sometimes call it "poor man's tenderloin/filet mignon." It is very tender. I love it.
CD
Looks good.
Flat Iron Steak and Chuck Steak are different cuts here. They come from the same part of the cow, but a Flat Iron Steak is not the same, from my experience. People here sometimes call it "poor man's tenderloin/filet mignon." It is very tender. I love it.
CD
Interesting. Flat iron was never sold as steak here until very recently. It was considered a stewing meat.
I reluctantly tried one as a steak thinking it would be awful as it’s comparatively cheap and the only other cheap steak I’ve tried are the ultra thin flash fry steaks and they are not worth chewing!
I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked it, it was pre- marinated so I guess that would have altered it a fair bit. But even plainly seasoned before joining the other ingredients the flat iron was lovely.
Flat iron steak first appeared here in the early 2000s. Kroger stores made it popular when they started to carry it in the mid 2000s.
It got popular in restaurants for a while, which ran the price up, but that fad passed, and now it is a relatively cheap cut, again. I always have some vacuum sealed in the freezer.
I've never used it for stewing. I always cook it like a good steak -- nice char on the outside, and medium rare inside. It is really tender, even though it is relatively lean.
CD
I just spent close to five minutes trying to figure out if the photo in the OP is pork or chicken, and how it was cooked.
CD
Its one of my photos. Its chicken cooked 'en papillote'. I will have to look up the recipe...
... its Recipe - Achiote strawberry chicken 'en papillote'
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I did just that! Cooked the pie filling similarly to steak, seared the outside and left the inside rare. Filled the blind baked pastry with the hot filling and baked it to crisp the pastry lid for just 15 mins resulting in medium rare cubes of steak.
I think that was the key to it being so well received, juicy cubes of steak, it was lean so no need to render the fat down but also tender and juicy. Will definitely take that route again.
Bavette steak also appeared around the same time which I believe for us is skirt but dont quote me on that. Its a fattier cut and I don’t think it would produce such nice results in a pie unless slow cooked.
Do you have Bavette in the US?
Its a different cut from skirt as we knew it, apparently*. I've been buying it recently from Morrisons and I'm quite impressed - cooked rare on a high heat. Morrisons charge a fraction of the price of the butcher cited below!
*Bavette Beef skirt steak - Salter & King Craft Butchers.
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