Just fried 25 baby flounder. Fixed me a plate and the other , my GF is stopping on the way to work to get hers. My grease is getting to the end of it's life, so now I'll cook fish and my last batch will be chicken livers.
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Cooked a few fillet mignons today. I had a beef tender loin that has been wet aging in my fridge for 5 and a half weeks. So today I slice it into 11 steaks. Got 2 small, 1 medium, 4 large and 4 giant steaks. I just cooked the 2 small and 1 medium on the grill, at a 600° surface temp to a medium rare. That's the medium on my plate with the loaded potato. I have the 8 big ones left to package for the freezer tomorrow. That's about a pound and a quarter of scrap that I will put with another bag of scrap from my last tender loin. I will make a beef stew later this week. Oh yeah. I have the steaks covered in my home made, What's this here sauce, and a lite sprinkling of steak seasoning. They will marinate till ready for the grill.
MIddle-Eastern Fusion for Lunch
Today, I asked my beloved bride (and sous chef) what kind of sandwich she would like. I suggested Greek gyro sandwiches, and she said she liked Lebanese kibbeh better. So, I thought about how to convert kibbeh into something to put into a sandwich. I decided to try to make kibbeh burgers. I made patties of a meld of the traditional kibbeh outside and the filling. They turned out great.
First, we had some nice steak fries.
And then, the kibbeh burgers: kibbeh patties (ground beef, Bulgar wheat, chopped onion, ground allspice, ground cinnamon, fresh-ground black-pepper, salt, and pine nuts), with iceberg lettuce, sliced Roma tomatoes, thin-sliced red onions, and dressing (hers: tzatziki sauce, his: Greek yogurt), on fresh-baked Iraqi samoon bread (from the Middle-Eastern shop down the street).
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Enjoy,
Rich P
These are excellent table fare.
I miss being on the coast so much. Drop the crab trap in a canal and spend the morning on the water. On a good day we would have reds, specs, and flounder in the cooler. Usually we could catch up to a shrimper for some table shrimp.
In the evening we would fry the fish and boil the crabs/shrimp right there on the bank of the canal. It is so much different when everything is that fresh.
It just dawned on me. The next time I post a steak, I'm gonna slice a piece off so you can see what it looks like on the inside. The steak was around an inch and 3/4. I love a hot cooked steak with a char on the outside. Grey about 1/4 inch thick all the way around and the center a rare red. I eat mine med rare leaning towards rare. As I've said before, my GF eats hers well done. It kills me to cook one like that. She can't even watch me eat mine. We will go out to eat steak sometimes and I'll be going look, look. She will just grumble some eye rolling words at me, looking the other way. Even though we will order the same steak, mine will be a half an inch thicker than hers. When I try to explain why she don't wanna hear it. She will almost gag when she see's me sopping up the juice with a roll. Bless her heart. She doesn't have any problem with BBQ and ribs though.That's a nice char on the steak.
-Dave
It just dawned on me. The next time I post a steak, I'm gonna slice a piece off so you can see what it looks like on the inside. The steak was around an inch and 3/4. I love a hot cooked steak with a char on the outside. Grey about 1/4 inch thick all the way around and the center a rare red. I eat mine med rare leaning towards rare. As I've said before, my GF eats hers well done. It kills me to cook one like that. She can't even watch me eat mine. We will go out to eat steak sometimes and I'll be going look, look. She will just grumble some eye rolling words at me, looking the other way. Even though we will order the same steak, mine will be a half an inch thicker than hers. When I try to explain why she don't wanna hear it. She will almost gag when she see's me sopping up the juice with a roll. Bless her heart. She doesn't have any problem with BBQ and ribs though.
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Just had a bowl of beef stew, as you can tell by the missing piece of cornbread. Was made with around 3 lb's beef tenderloin scraps. Put it on this morning when I got home from work. cooked till now.