food The Drunken Chef

Prepare for some awesomeness..or at least I think so!!

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So I had some Top Round steak to use...why not make some Jerky??

Put it on the ECB for about 2 hours or so.

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Mmmm goodness...

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Recipe:

A pound or so of top round steak
1/2 cup worcestershire
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
4 garlic cloves minced
2 tsp ground black peppah
1 tsp onion powder
Birds eye, habanero, scotch bonnet, datil, chipotle, and cayenne peppers(dried), with a little coriander and cumin.

Marinated overnight and then smoked at 180 for 2 hrs or until well dried...let cool to room temp and refrigerate leftovers!!! So guuuddd!!
 
Prepare for some awesomeness..or at least I think so!!

Woah! Love the recipe and the photos! I don't have a smoker (and I always drink Koskenkorva or Stolichnaya as my vodka of choice) so I use liquid smoke, not quite the same thing....

But I also don't use heat abowe 131F (55 'C) so the meat "doesn't cook". A bit difficult to explain, but I dry the meat in my oven, setting the heat just above 55 celcius and jamming the oven hatch ajar with a winebottle cork.

My beef jerky recipe goes like this;

Meat, beef about 1kg

Marinade (for apporx 1kg of beef), leave the meat into this for 24hrs

3 tbls honey
2 tbls Chipotle Tabasco
A dash of smoked Naga Morich
2 tbls of ground dried chili (in my case some c. annuum)
Black pepper
1-2 teaspoon (=shall be "ts") of salt
2 ts of dried & ground paprika
2 ts jeera (cumin)
1 ts curry
5 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
½ cup of red vine
2 ts lemon juice

Strip the meat and assemble the strips on the oven rack to drie overnight

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Woah! Love the recipe and the photos! I don't have a smoker (and I always drink Koskenkorva or Stolichnaya as my vodka of choice) so I use liquid smoke, not quite the same thing....

But I also don't use heat abowe 131F (55 'C) so the meat "doesn't cook". A bit difficult to explain, but I dry the meat in my oven, setting the heat just above 55 celcius and jamming the oven hatch ajar with a winebottle cork.

My beef jerky recipe goes like this;

Meat, beef about 1kg

Marinade (for apporx 1kg of beef), leave the meat into this for 24hrs

3 tbls honey
2 tbls Chipotle Tabasco
A dash of smoked Naga Morich
2 tbls of ground dried chili (in my case some c. annuum)
Black pepper
1-2 teaspoon (=shall be "ts") of salt
2 ts of dried & ground paprika
2 ts jeera (cumin)
1 ts curry
5 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
½ cup of red vine
2 ts lemon juice

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Like your recipe Mikko, may have to give it a try.
 
Um.... no. REAL Steak is best when just seared on the outside, and dripping with tender, juicy goodness on the inside! :cool:

LOL - to each his/her own!

I don't eat bloody, or even pink steaks. In fact I find steak to be so boring, I rarely eer eat it. I'd rather spend $20 on a rack of ribs to awesomify, than a little hunk of bloody meat.
 
I do like steak "plain" as well as "fancy", but then my definition of "plain" includes sea salt, garlic powder, pepper powder, tarragon...... you get the idea!

Here's a basic recipe I found a few years back for chili-rubbed skirt steak:
4 teaspoons chili powder
2 teaspoons ground coriander
2 teaspoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon oregano
Sea salt
Pepper powder

I've NEVER made this exactly according to the above, but use that as a starting point and go nuts with my spice cabinet. I can assure you whatever else goes in, at a minimum garlic and tarragon also go in. Might or might not skip oregano, but usually keep the rest. At any rate, the above quantities are for a single steak - multiply it by the number of steaks you have. It's not carne asada, but it's excellent!
 
REAL Steak is best when just seared on the outside, and dripping with tender, juicy goodness on the inside!

Quoted for truth!

The blood in a good medium-rare steak doubles as a gravy for
the mashed potatoes. Mmmmm-mmmmm guuud!

I rarely order steak out at a restaurant as very few can equal
the ones I prepare. When I do and the server inquires if I'd
like steak sauce, I reply with "I hope not!"
 
Made Gumbo. Never made it before...turned out bad ass:

Ingredients...all the goodies there...and a fresh bhut, and savina for a little extra love:

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Tossed the bhut and savina in with half a head of garlic...chopped 'em up, and tossed into the mix of crawfish tails, jalapeno sausage, and smoked turkey I found in the bottome of the deep-freeze...from back at Thanksgiving.

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Tossed the meat-mix in a wok with a shit load of butter and olive oil. Cooked until the juices started making an orange gravy...

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I made a base with chicken stock, then added the meat-n-heat:

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I recreated the cajun trinity in my own way...onion, celery, and instead of bell peppers, I used the 2 poblanos, and 3 large jalapenos. I also diced up 3 romas to toss in. I made a medium roux with a mix of butter and olive oil, then cooked the quadrinity in it for 5 minutes...then added the KEYSTONE LIGHT to it...cooked for a few more minutes:

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Tossed everything together:

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Added a bag of okra, some ground mustard, basil, jalapeno salt, celery salt, thyme, a pinch of dill, some Tony's, black pepper, cayenne, a few bay leaves and probably some other shit.

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After 2 hours simmering...

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Plated...damn that was good.

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Well, I have been delinquent for a bit, but I am back and better than ever. Here are some of the goings on that have been happening in the casa de JayT. First some chorizo queso to start things out.

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I made this one from scratch with browned chorizo, chopped jalapenos, habs, and diced tomatoes. Then milk, chicken broth, then shredded some mozzarella, sharp cheddar, and monterey jack cheese. Added some of AJ's naga puree to bring the heat up a little more.

Since I made so much I figured I would use it on everything. First, a steak quesadilla. This was a leftover strip steak I sliced up for the quesadilla and a cheesesteak.

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Booze break...

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Now for da cheeseysteak

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And if you have seen my status lately you would know that I have come into about 50lbs of tomatoes recently and have been very busy making salsa. I have also just about perfected the blt. Here it is.

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That is three slices of white toast all covered with Hellman's and HBD's 1841. Then about 6 slices of bacon, two thick slices of Jetstar tomato, lettuce (which ideally would have been green leaf, but hey I used what I had), and American cheese. The only thing better than that is when you serve it with this.

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Some sexy vittles have been posted recently. Bear says "big ups!" to the cheese steak and the gumbo...

Yeah, he showed up at the door today... smelling like a frat-house, as usual.

We had some good times... and lots of Busch... All he had on his mind was this next Throwdown.

He shows up when he knows things are just about to get awesome, but I'm catching an edge on his voice....

I think he's genuinely concerned for the SoFlo Posse on this one.

I told him not to worry, then tucked him in for the night.

"Good night Bear." I said. Then he slurred out, "It's Doctor Bear now, dammit!"

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Dr. Bear... HA! Let's see some pics is what I say.
 
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