Yes, steak! We love it.

Speaking of flank steak, I like to make pinwheels. Just pound out flank steak flattish, sprinkle your favorite toppings allover the top (I like bleu cheese, sundried tomatoes, cooked onion and mushrooms). Roll the whole thing up like cinnamon rolls before you slice them. Use some cooking twine to tie it together. Cook it in the oven around 400 until it's as done as you like it. (Sorry, folks, you'll have to figure out times on your own or use a thermometer). When it comes out, slice it like cinnamon rolls and enjoy. I fucking love this.

My other grandmother used to make flank steak with stuffing rolled up in it.  To die for.  Sadly, it was the only thing she cooked that wasn't awful.

It's so good. I forgot to mention to season the steak. I guess it goes without saying.

My mother makes amazing soups. When I was kid, though, I thought I hated steak because she always cooked it well. Blech.

(June 26, 2017 at 10:54 am)Shell B Wrote: It's so good. I forgot to mention to season the steak. I guess it goes without saying.

My mother makes amazing soups. When I was kid, though, I thought I hated steak because she always cooked it well. Blech.

I love well done steaks. I really hate any type of runny meat. I like my cow dead dead dead, no red.

(June 26, 2017 at 10:54 am)Shell B Wrote: It's so good. I forgot to mention to season the steak. I guess it goes without saying.

My mother makes amazing soups. When I was kid, though, I thought I hated steak because she always cooked it well. Blech.

Same here.


I grew up wondering what the big fucking deal was about steak.  Before going out for one with friends in college, I had always equated steak with a lower grade of shoe leather.


Before the meal with my friends there had been a prison inmate on the news famously complaining about the bastards outside of the prison enjoying their rare steaks while he was stuck with inedible prison chow.

Needing no further clue than that, I ordered my first rare steak.

OMFG !!!

Never had a medium rare, medium, medium well, or well done steak again in my life.  I always request as very rare as they go now.  Cold red center = food of the Gods.

(June 26, 2017 at 11:12 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(June 26, 2017 at 10:54 am)Shell B Wrote: It's so good. I forgot to mention to season the steak. I guess it goes without saying.

My mother makes amazing soups. When I was kid, though, I thought I hated steak because she always cooked it well. Blech.

I love well done steaks. I really hate any type of runny meat. I like my cow dead dead dead, no red.

I'll never, ever understand this. All the flavor is gone. All you're left with is a charred piece of meat with any seasonings you put on it. You might as well just eat the seasonings.

That said, I'm not about yucking anyone's yum. Have at whatever you want to eat.

but realize raw = all that is good with the world and well done = what SATAN wants you to eat !!!

For Steelcurtain, Sweet Potato Cottage Pie for 2:

500g minced beef (keep the juices)
700g sweet potatoes
300ml tomato passata
1 large onion
5g Rosemary
5g Thyme
4 carrots
150g peas
2 beef stock cubes
1/2 tube tomato puree
1 tablespoon of Worcester sauce
200g Cheddar cheese
Salt to taste

Potatoes
Make mashed sweet potatoes. I add salt to the water during boiling to make the flavour more rich without directly salting.

Carrots
Disc the carrots and boil them for 10 mins (or until soft)

Beef Sauce
Finely chop the onion, sweat them in a medium pan then add the beef. Cook it 3/4 done.
Add the passata, Worcester sauce and crumble in the stock cubes. Simmer for 15 mins, stirring occasionally
Add the carrots and peas then simmer for 10 mins
Add the rosemary and thyme and simmer for 5 more mins. Important not to ass the herbs till the end as the more you cook them, the more they lose their flavour.

Oven Bake
Pour the sauce into an oven-proof dish then spread the mash over the top
Grate the cheddar and sprinkle on top
Pop in to a preheated oven at 200 degrees Celsius (390f, Gas mark 6) for around 20 mins or until the cheese browns thoroughly
Stand for 10 mins
Serve
Enjoy!

Fuck yeah!

Coconut curry:

2 tb butter
2 lbs cubed chicken breast
1 large onion, chopped
2 bell peppers
bunch broccoli
tb grated fresh turmeric
tb grated fresh ginger
2 cloves garlic
1 can coconut milk, full fat
zest and juice of 1 lime
2 tb fish sauce (or 1 tb fish sauce and 1 tb soy sauce)
2 tb brown or palm sugar
Chopped fresh cilantro
Chopped fresh basil

Throw butter, onion, bell pepper and broccoli in a pan, heat until soft
Add chicken, cook until partially browned
Add remaining ingredients up to the sugar, cover and simmer on low for about 20 minutes

Serve over basmati rice, sprinkle with cilantro and basil

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Flank steak

Proportions are important in this.

1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
Juice of 1 lemon
1 1/2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Marinate at least 6 hours. Grill on very hot grill. Works really well with chicken, too.