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meat

Dinner

Steak and Stout Stew (aka Guinness Stew)

Here is a variation on my usual beef stew recipe, this time using some Guinness as some of the braising liquid. I usually use red wine (or even coffee), but thought that since it was St. Patrick’s Day-ish (and I had a bottle of stout available), I would use that instead. Adds a nice bitterness to it. Note that you should not use Guinness Extra Stout (just the draught) otherwise it will be too bitter. Also, in addition to my usual potatoes and carrots, I had a few parsnips from the winter market, so I used them too.
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15. March 2015
Breakfast/Brunch, General Reference/Tutorial

How to Cook Bacon (my way)

Everyone has their own way of cooking bacon. In the pan, in the oven, even in the microwave. My method involves the oven, covering the pan with aluminum foil (for easier clean up), but also by placing the bacon on a wire rack placed on the prepared baking sheet. Why? Well, two reasons: 1. by raising the bacon away from the pan, there is better airflow, so the bacon crisps from the bottom as well, leaving the bacon nice and flat and 2. also because the bacon is raised from the pan, it causes less splatters (the reason bacon splatters is because the heated grease under the bacon doesn’t have any place to go with the bacon on top of it, so it eventually “pops” to have the air/grease escape, causing splatters. I don’t know that this is the “best” method, but it is the one that I use. Onwards:
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1. March 2015
Dinner, Lunch

Cowboy Chili

What did you have for lunch? Here in my kitchen, it was leftover Chili. It may never win a Chili Cookoff, but it is pretty yummy. I think that most people I know use ground beef (or a combination of ground beef and ground pork) when they make chili. I use sirloin or flank / skirt steak and dice it myself with a knife or if I am making a lot, I pulse it a few times with the food processor. Also, I use andoille sausage for some extra kick. Is this “True American Chili”? (whatever that is) I don’t know. But this is (one of) my Chili recipes and it’s yummy.
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21. January 2015