Another holiday, another ridiculously beefy dinner. For Christmas, I made a Beef Wellington for my family and Trevin’s to (deliciously) celebrate with. And the next week, I was headed to the Cascade Mountains to celebrate New Years with a close group of friends and their children. After about four seconds of deliberation via email, we settled on beef short ribs for New Year’s Eve… and I volunteered (as tribute) to be the chef that night. …
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Flank steak is still one of my favorite cuts of meat due to the texture and versatility. It’s a relatively long and flat cut of meat, and used in traditional dishes like a London Broil and commonly used as a replacement for skirt steak in fajitas. …
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If you’ve ever been to a Korean BBQ restaurant, you’ll remember this cut of meat, and remember it fondly. If flaken style ribs were an 80’s supermodel, they’d be Jill Goodacre: not everybody knows about them, but they’re really damned awesome (and married to Harry Connick, Jr?). Sorry for the tortured metaphor. …
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One of my coworkers brought back a gift pack of BBQ sauce and rub from Salt Lick BBQ, and we were left with a conundrum: what to do with this stuff? Well, it turns out that you should have a meat-acular potluck on a random Monday. I wanted to sous vide something, someone else is working on the ribs, someone else on the beans, etc. …
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Who doesn’t love a mouthwatering, juicy burger? Cooking with sous vide delivers in spades.
I’ve been wanting to make cheeseburgers using sous vide for a long time, especially aftering reading J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s Serious Eats article and recipe from back in 2010. …
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Simple sous vide recipe that turns a very cheap cut of meat into something you and your family will rave about. Unlike other sous vide chuck roast recipes you’ll find, this one has a cook time of 24 hours in sous vide compared to 48 and 72 hour versions. Due to the lower cook time, the texture of the meat is less like a traditional roast, and instead more like a very, very tender steak. …
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