Mmmmmm.... STEAK

NickWheeler

NickWheeler

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When I was a kid, I did not like steak at all. I was a picky little bastid. I liked chicken and fish... but didn't like steak and choked it down when my folks cooked it. My sister and I made Dad cook it until it looked like an old boot strap.

Trying to build muscle and get stronger (back at 14 or so), I started finding a need to eat red meat to gain the great protein and iron in it.

I couldn't cook it for crap, and still choked it down. Bluuuuuck! :barf:



Oh how things change.

Somewhere along the line I started learning how to cook it, and realized that just a little pink in there might not kill me.

I just got back from the gym, and needed mucho protein. So here I am, perusing the forums at midnight, eating 16 oz. of sirloin with some mushrooms, Walla Walla sweet onion, and a little pepper-corn sauce.

Gosh damn this is good!

So how do you like your steak???

Any great recipes, marinades, or tricks for the way you like to prepare it?

I still don't have the cajones or stomach to try it "blue." You know, where they tear the hair off, slap it against a grill for about 5 seconds and then slap it on your plate.

Talk about off topic!!! LOL

:D
-Nick-
 
I like my steak below rare. Cold in the center.

To cook a steak rare, turn your grill to 550 and let the grill come up to heat. Rub in some kosher salt and maybe a little garlic powder. Grill three minutes per side. Take it off the grill and let it rest for a few minutes.

For the oven use a grill pan. Cook it for two minutes each side on the smoking hot grill pan. Put it in the oven for 5 minutes at 400 per side. Take it out and let it rest.

We eat steak a few times a week and love it. Pork medallions are pretty good too. I'm looking forward to the fall so we can start having oven cooked dishes.

Matt
 
:) Vidalia Onion Dressing makes an Awesome Marinade!! :)
Ive used it on London Broil mostly.......guess whats for dinner?lol
Tam
 
Nick,

I'm on-again, off-again into bodybuilding and exercise. Beef is good for protein, definitely, but cottage cheese is defintely the whey-protein blast. That said, steak is DEFINITELY more palatable! But in the interest of balance, let me give you my recipe to make cottage cheese into something that really tastes great, and will give you a complete spectrum of nutrients.

Tuna Cottage Peppers

(1) Bell Pepper - any color, but red is the highest in vit C.
(1) can of tuna in water, drained
(1) container of lowfat cottage cheese.
- chopped chives
- onion powder


Wash and slice the pepper lengthwise. Remove the funky stuff inside to form a cup out of each half. Mix the drained tuna with enough cottage cheese to form a nice stiff mixture. Be sure to add enough cheese to pack both pepper halves. Add the chopped chives to taste, some onion powder, cracked black pepper... whatever you like as an accompaniment to your tuna. I have added sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pine nuts, finely-chopped carrot, toasted soy nuts, even fresh peas to this!

Anyhow, pack the peppers with the mixture and chow into it. GOOD! The best part is that its packed with protien from a couple different sources.

Now the steak recipe:

2 lbs of sirlion tips. 3-4 cloves of chopped garlic. kosher salt. cracked pepper. olive oil. Dump everything into a baggie overnight. Fry on top of stove in a large, uncrowded skillet until medium rare. Top notch steak! Enjoy with crusty bread, and some salad. Tastes just like a good Italian Filetto di Manzo, which is a beef cut not typically done here in the States.
 
I've started a two month vegetarian diet to try and change eating habits.

I read this thread and now I'm drooling on the keyboard.

Thanks for nothin', you bastids!!!!! :D :D :footinmou
 
My favorite steak:

The 42 ounce "Lumber Jack" at the local grill house. Medium rare and cooked over an open flame.
 
I'll take an inch, or so, thick piece of sirloin from a young (2-3 year old) cow elk. Coat the outside with a mixture of dried chile arbol, chipotle, green chile and garlic put it into a hot grill with half burned Mesquite chunks. Close it down to create dense smoke and turn it once or twice until it gets warm in the middle. It should be tender enough to cut with your fork and you will see what civilization misses by eating all that beef.
 
Okay I have nothing really to add to this thread other than I am drooling now! Thanks alot Nick!

Acutally I have the day off tomorrow so maybe a steak and a couple of beer might be in order tonight. Damm I need propane for the BBQ!

Sean
 
Yeah ain't nothin like a good steak but if you want some good protein without all the additives that beef has, venison is the ticket. Cooked right I think it rivals beef. My wife has become quite proficent at cooking venison over the last 25 years and the best way I like it is slow cooked in a crock pot. It's also good on the grill.
Scott
 
Panfried-in-butter butterflied venison tenderloin with taters, eggs, toast with jam, orange juice and coffee for breakfast......

me wants MEAT!!!!! :D hehehehe

I gotta quit readin this thread..... :( :rolleyes: :D
 
FWEEEEEET!

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Time out! There will be no more talk about elk or venison. Everyone KNOWS lobster is the bombdiggity booyah food of real men.

Fuggin-Aye!
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You just got to have the fire down BELOW!
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Some of them kickass steaks I was telling you about, Nicky.
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Drooling yet?
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Nemo does a great job of licking all that melted butter off your face. He sure is one of the good ones!
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Razorback - Knives said:
Yeah ain't nothin like a good steak but if you want some good protein without all the additives that beef has, venison is the ticket. Cooked right I think it rivals beef. My wife has become quite proficent at cooking venison over the last 25 years and the best way I like it is slow cooked in a crock pot. It's also good on the grill.
Scott
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Elk is venison, but it tastes much better than deer venison, which I also prefer over beef.

To make an analogy from Higgy's post, If you think of deer steak as good shrimp, elk steak is fine fresh boiled lobster. There is just no comparison.
 
jhiggins said:
Nemo does a great job of licking all that melted butter off your face. He sure is one of the good ones!
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Ohhhh boy, I can't wait until IG comments on that picture. :D
 
J, you had me with you, right up until the make-out shot with the dog! :barf:

:p :D :p

From a technical stand-point, eggs have the best biological value for muscle building. But you can only eat so many eggs... or so many of anything for that matter.

Your recipe sounds pretty good. Lots better than some of the concoctions I used to come up with when I worked at the gym. Like the following shake for example:

2 cups skim milk
1 cup skim mild powder
1- 8oz. container of yogurt
1 can tuna
1 cup oats
1 banana
1/2 cup brown rice

Yep... that could kill almost anyone. Somehow I gagged it down.

I am very speficic about what I eat now... but luckily that includes sirloin 1-2 times per week. Deer and Elk are superior... they're an active animal eating natural food sources. But it's not as easy to get as some sirloin at Safeway :)

Other good protein sources in meat are Emu, Buffalo, and Alligator... but they don't come cheap!

-Nick-
 
O K Nick, now I'm hungry.
Here's how I do it - 1'' thick porter house or ribeye locally grow beef(no additives), sea salt, pepper and cook over a very hot bed of natural lump charcoal, not brickets and much better flavor than gas. I like em med-rare, on my grill that's about 5 to 7min.s on each side. I like deer venison also, had some last night, no elk in the woods around here :)

Don Hanson
 
In New Mexico, we also have Oryx, that the Fish and Duck Dept planted on White Sands Missle Range. They are so well suited to desert survival that they are constantly escaping and trying to spread.

There are once in a lifetime hunts on WSMR and depradation hunts off range. These are very large African antelope, also called gemsbok that are almost bull elk size and are much tougher, that is harder to kill. They evolved as prey to African lion packs and take some damage to bring down. They are very good eating, more beeflike than elk, but much better than beef. Some of my friends like them better than elk, but not me.

They also planted Barbary Sheep back in the 1920s in the Canadian River Canyon in NE NM and Persian Ibex in the Florida Mountains near Deming just north of the Mexican border west of El Paso. I haven't eaten either of these.
 
Moose Steak
cooked and canned wait untill it forms a jelly around it then fry at will...
with a little butter or bacon fat with salt and pepper you don't need to fancy it up..
mmmmmmmm!! you an't had steak untill you've had Moose...
way better than .. Deer IMO..
I can't coment on elk but I'll bet it's close :)
 
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