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Entries Tagged as 'beef'

Better Burger, No Bun

May 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blog, dinner

Did you say meatless Mondays? Hell no. Not in this house. We are firm believers that humans were designed to eat meat, and we get ours pasture-raised from our dairy, South Maintain Creamery, in Middletown, MD. The ground beef we use for burgers (it’s delivered, just like the milk and other dairy products) is a […]

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Strip Steak with Bearnaise Sauce

May 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blog

My wife has decided that her favorite part of the high-protein lifestyle is the Bearnaise sauce, thick with butter and egg yolk. In this case, I decided to celebrate a hard week of catering with a fine New York strip steak from Whole Foods. I seared it hard in an iron skillet, then finished it […]

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Homegrown Cholent

January 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

So many methods of making pot roast are disappointing. The meat too often comes out of the oven dry and tough. I’ve settled on traditional Jewish cholent as our preferred method of cooking a piece of beef shoulder for a long time, braising it in a heavy pot with beans and barley. The result is […]

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