Apolyton Cuisine: What should be in Ecthy's steak sauce / marinade?

[Japher]

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Monk
Hey molly bloom, you're kind of cool. Were you aware of that?

Thank you for the compliment- they're always welcome.

Your avatar always makes me laugh, by the way. It's a very amusing photograph. I like Zopperoni's bug-eyed photo too, and the Finnish president.

[Monk]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Thank you for the compliment- they're always welcome.

Your avatar always makes me laugh, by the way. It's a very amusing photograph. I like Zopperoni's bug-eyed photo too, and the Finnish president.

You're welcome. I think it was one of the Finnish posters who presented the original picture. Even though I consider Tarja Halonen the best avatar material ever, it's been a couple of months, so I should probably change it. I'm considering my options as we speak.

[loinburger]

One option, if you're willing to cut up the steak (or roast or whatever), is to mix it with some mushrooms, mushroom soup, onion powder, garlic powder, ceyenne pepper, and cooking sherry, cook it in the oven at 350 degrees (farenheit, it probably wouldn't taste very good if you cooked it at 350 celcius) for three hours, and serve it on some egg noodles. Works great for cheap meat.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Japher

You're hopeless -- has your wife ever told you that?

[Japher]

Stroganoff...?

[Japher]

You're hopeless -- has your wife ever told you that?

Yes.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Japher


Yes.

Ok -- just making sure.

[Japher]

Fajitas are another good option with poor cuts...

MrFun: She laughed when I asked her that...

[MrFun]

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
Heh. One more question: that pounding the crap out of it part... a must?

Depends how cheap the meat is (what part of the cow are we talking about) and how long you marinade it. I find with less expensive pieces of meat, either scoring (if marinading) or pounding helps break down the fibers and make the meat more tender.

Let us know how your beer-steak-concoction turned out!!

[Cruddy]

Hmm.... Maybe he's got food poisoning? I hope not.

[Saras]

THYME!!! ROLL IN IN THYME!

[Stuie]

I always tell my wife, "everything tastes better with a little thyme." I think she's sick of me cooking with it.

[Ecthy]

1. The beer idea was one of the best I've ever come across, it was great.

2. Alas, I did roast it a little too long, so it wasn't too soft, the steaks were supposed to be short-roasted. It was pig, BTW, in case I forgot to mention, so pork steaks, the beer thing did work though.

3. As a rub I used a simple mix of black pepper, red pepper (like chilli) and some oregano, well the cheap variant of it. However, after rubbing the first (of 4 small ones) steak, the first amount was used so I took more of it, not considering that all pepper that I add would be equal to the amount of pepper I was going to eat, AND to make it less dry added some ketchup to the pan as well as the unused rub to have some spicy sauce with it. Well I suppose soy sauce is what you guys use as a sauce basis, whatever, it smelt good and tasted nice, at the beginning... then it started burning.

In the end I removed all the sauce and ate the steaks as they were (my rice I had alrady mixed with the "sauce" so I threw it away), and they were still good, just a little rough to chew, but that was OK.

So it's to the beer idea, to the rub as well as the idea of it, to my cooking and to the sauce, that is the steak sauce I made up in the end. As far as the marinade (well, beer) is cocnerned, it worked out well.

Next time I'll try some more marinade-related stuff, there've been some great ideas here.

Thanks all