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February 11, 2010

Beef Stroganoff

Filed under: Beef,Staff Favorites — Tags: , , , , — Chef @ 3:26 pm

 

Beef Stroganoff

Florence
Course Entree
Cuisine American
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 1 16 ounce package egg noodles
  • 2 tablespoons butter softened
  • 2 onions finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 8 ounce package fresh mushrooms, thinly sliced
  • 1 pound beef loin steak cut into thin strips
  • 1 14 ounce can beef consomme
  • 1/4 cup Burgundy wine optional
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons cold water or as needed
  • 1 8 ounce container sour cream

Instructions
 

  • Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add noodles and cook 5 to 7 minutes or until al dente
  • drain
  • Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in onions and garlic, and cook until slightly tender. Mix in mushrooms, and continue cooking 2 minutes. Place steak strips in saucepan and cook about 1 minute. Mix in consomme, and Burgundy (optional). Bring to a boil.
  • In a small bowl, thoroughly blend flour with cold water until smooth. Reduce saucepan heat to low. While stirring constantly, slowly pour flour mixture into saucepan. Gradually return to boil while stirring rapidly, until sauce is thick and smooth. Cover saucepan and continue cooking 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, let cool slightly and stir in sour cream. Serve over cooked egg noodles.

 

January 21, 2010

Summers End Stew

Filed under: Cooking Recipes,Soups & Stews — Tags: , , , , , — Chef @ 8:00 am

Summers End Stew

Florence

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 pounds stew beef -- trimmed
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 8 fresh tomatoes -- peeled and cut up up to 12
  • 2 cups tomato juice or water
  • 2 medium onions -- chopped
  • 1 clove garlic -- minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 2 teaspoons salt -- optional
  • 4 medium potatoes -- peeled up to 6 quartered
  • 3 carrots -- sliced up to 5
  • 2 cups corn -- frozen
  • 2 cups fresh green beans
  • 2 cups peas -- frozen
  • 2 celery stalks -- up to 3
  • 1 cup summer squash -- sliced
  • 1/4 cup fresh parsley -- snipped
  • 1 teaspoon sugar

Instructions
 

  • Put oil in the dutch oven and brown meat over medium heat.
  • Stir in tomatoes, tomato juice, onions, garlic, salt, and pepper.
  • Bring to a rolling boil.
  • Reduce heat and simmer for one hour.
  • Fold in carrots, corn, potatoes, green beans, celery, and peas.
  • Cover tightly and let simmer for 30 minutes.
  • Add in squash and simmer for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, until everything is tender.
  • Add in sugar and parsley.

January 2, 2010

Vegetable Beef Soup

Vegetable Beef Soup

Florence
Course Soups
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 4 pounds boneless beef chuck
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoons pepper
  • 1/4 cup cooking oil
  • 2 cloves garlic -- minced
  • 1 bay leaves
  • 1 teaspoons dried thyme
  • 3 1/2 quarts water
  • 32 oz cans tomato sauce
  • 6 beef bouillon cubes
  • 1 cup Ditalini Pasta
  • 1 pounds potatoes; peel -- cube
  • 3/4 pounds carrots -- slice
  • 1 medium onion-- chop
  • 8 ounces frozen green beans
  • 8 ounces frozen peas

Instructions
 

  • Cut beef into 1/2 cubes.
  • Toss beef with flour, salt and pepper
  • In a large Dutch oven, brown the meat in batches in oil; drain and set aside.
  • In large stockpot or soup kettle; add garlic, bay leaves, thyme, water, tomato sauce and juice, bouillon and pasta and beef.
  • Bring to a boil.
  • Reduce heat; cover and simmer for approximately 1 hour.
  • Add veggies and bring to boil.
  • Reduce heat; cover and simmer approximately 2 hours or until veggies and meat are tender.
  • Remove bay leaves before serving.

December 18, 2009

The Best Way to Cook Delicious Steak

Filed under: How To Cook — Tags: , , , , , , — Chef @ 1:20 pm

The following tips help you understand how to practice and cook meat to perfection.

A excessive steak starts with a part of the pack of meat quality. The trouble meant for many beginners at what time they grow to the supermarket before neighboring butcher is the perfectly span of meat is bad. In attendance are a variety of meat and span can transpire confusing.

At what time you set the meat taking part in the microwave thawing and sensation force ruin the meat. Microwave meat is on no account a satisfactory opinion, please design in front and constantly give rise to meat roughly speaking 24 hours beforehand consumption. This way, you know with the purpose of icing with no angles, and can transpire cooked accordingly.

Grilling on the appropriate heat ensures even cooking; average is by and large recommended. If the heat is too above what is usual, beef can scorch and grow to be overcooked on the outside beforehand the inside reaches the desired doneness. Charring beef is not recommended.

Taking part in universal, in attendance are three assorted categories of beef taking part in the United States: In the beginning Grade, span and decide on Grade Grade. Prime is the top of the rating balance and no more than a very trivial percentage of beef produced taking part in this voters. The quality of beef is frequently reticent meant for span and decide on grades are networks with the purpose of are on hand to consumers at present taking part in supermarkets and butchers. So at what time you grow to the butcher before supermarket, transpire for sure to decide on the finest quality you can bargain. If veto label on the package, transpire for sure to ask meant for help.

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Style for sure the cook on a spit is not activated until the departure, followed by place the meat without delay on the quiz. Close the lid and cook the meat meant for a while. Veto need to disquiet roughly speaking the burn, the top might stop off the flames. Cook two steaks 1 edge your way thick, veto added than 6 minutes for each boundary. Meant for steaks 2 inches thick, try 8 minutes on each one boundary. If you stick to these orders and leave the lid of the quiz start smoking at what time it is phase to veer the meat. We indicate you and contract a timer and exercise it.

The finest way to determine doneness of meat and burgers is to exercise a thermometer time read. It is recorded taking part in seconds, but if round defiant not transpire dowry taking part in foods for the period of cooking. Addition the thermometer horizontally into core of steaks and burgers to check inner heat.

In attendance are on hand a variety of assorted cuts of at present and can transpire very confusing. The finest cuts meant for grilling taking part in my outlook, the Rib-eye, T-Bone, Porterhouse, inexperienced York Strip & Sirloin. In attendance are, of line, cuts with the purpose of award a remaining clean Mignon and Chateaubriand. These reductions are highly finely tuned, but contain very petite fat and not very tasty. I propose to stay away from these cuts meant for the quiz. Meat probably contains when much fat taking part in the arrange, but it is certainly individual of the nearly all appetizing cuts.

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