Friday OT - Red Meat

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I consider BBQ ribs to be the ultimate in carnivorous activity. The raw brutality of eating meat directly off the bone is it. Close second: Prime rib.

I've never been a rib guy, however the beef ribs at the Salt Lick in Austin Texas are flat out amazing.

I love all sorts of red meats, not sure I can pick a favorite. Steaks, Brisko, Bloody Burgers, love it all.
 

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My comfort food is a well marbled beef roast slow cooked in the crock pot all day with potatoes, onions, carrots, maybe some cabbage. Start it with some beef stock and bouillon cubes or onion soup mix and I'm just about as satisfied as any fancy schmancy meal I've ever had.

I also make a nice country style rib recipe slow cooked in the oven. Very simple but folks rave.

Very picky on meatloaf. I have a very old recipe that is about the best, according to my tastes, I've ever found.
 

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For me it's a PROPERLY grilled pork chop or loin. Making some tonight.

Runner ups-
Walleye/Yellow Perch shore lunch.
Raw Oysters
Grilled Fresh grouper
smoked salmon
 
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My answer is "yes".

If I have to get specific, Cajun-rubbed T-bone. Extra spice.

But, I don't know of any kind of red meat or seafood that I do not like.
 

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Chicago Chophouse - Long bone dry aged Tomahawk Rib eye!!

This would make Fred Flintstone jealous.
 

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1. Pork ribs- smoked
2. Steak
3. Bacon
4. Spanish cured ham

If seafood was included, King Crab legs would be no. 3.
 

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I should have been more precise on what kind of steak. I like steak au poivre. I like the creamy sauce, rather than the more liquor-based ones.

The cattle ranchers in my family would tell you that if you have to put sauce on a steak, that's a bad sign. Steak should stand on its own...with maybe a touch of salt & pepper. ;)
 

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The only correct answer is bacon...

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I was going to rail on you about frenching up a steak.......but this sounds awesome.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/steak-au-poivre-recipe.html

That's the recipe I use when I make it. it's really, really good.

The cattle ranchers in my family would tell you that if you have to put sauce on a steak, that's a bad sign. Steak should stand on its own...with maybe a touch of salt & pepper. ;)

There is zero wrong with a pan sauce, made from the remnants of the steak you just cooked. A little wine, a few herbs, make sure to get all the fond off of the bottom of the pan. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't.
 
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That's the recipe I use when I make it. it's really, really good.



There is zero wrong with a pan sauce, made from the remnants of the steak you just cooked. A little wine, a few herbs, make sure to get all the fond off of the bottom of the pan. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't.

Matter of taste, my friend. Taste, and the product of generations of Texas ranchers going back to the influx of German settlers in the early 1800s. :)

Besides, any drippings from our steaks go into the flames of the grill. Hubby even grills in 3 ft of snow!
 

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There is zero wrong with a pan sauce, made from the remnants of the steak you just cooked. A little wine, a few herbs, make sure to get all the fond off of the bottom of the pan. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't.

You're doing yourself a disservice by not cooking that steak on a charcoal grill instead of in a pan!

Just kidding. I do like grilled steak, but my favorite way (which also happens to be the easiest way) is to cook a steak in a hot cast iron skillet. The way it rapidly sears the outside locks in so much juice and flavor. It's not a good method for pan sauce, though, unless you like it with little black flecks of metal.
 

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I will admit to adding saute'd (you can't spell that with my keyboard) onion, shrooms & a wee bit of garlic as a topping to the cheaper cuts....