A lean, inexpensive cut of beef: a London broil. A simple rub: truffled salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, ground savory, and garlic. Sous vide at 124 F for ten hours. Char with torch or on grill immediately before service; slice thin on a diagonal cut. Broccoli dressed with red pepper aioli (red pepper-infused olive oil emulsified with an egg white.) Mashed potato seasoned with Neufchâtel and Hungarian paprika.
Simple techniques, good ingredients. What more do you need?
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A Sous Vide MachineReport
A nice idea but tres cher. Less expensive idea I saw was a gadget with a temperature probe that you plug a slow-cooker into and it will keep it at Sous Vide temperatures. Can’t remember if it was on the ThinkGeek website or in a Hammacher-Schlemmer catalog.Report
A friend of mine made one of those out of a Rasberry Pi.Report
You can totally do that. Or, for the less technically inclined, buy the sous vide.Report
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Presumably utensils unless there are things you are not telling us about your manners 😉Report
The ability to emulsify. Thats one of the cooking techniques I never got the hang of. Somethnig to drink with the dinner? ND suggests that beer would go well but this recipe is really calling for a good red wine, preferably an Italian or French red.Report
I think you’re right, it does want a good red. But try some Appalachian jug wine, i think the flavor contrast would be delightful.Report
Emulsify? Do you not have a whisk?
Okay, that’s a lot of work and we have machines in this modern Industrial Age. I use my kitchenaid with the whisk attachment. I’ve heard of using an egg beater machine in a pinch (could get a bit messy and needs a certain volume of liquid).
Point is, whip something oily till it sets.Report
It’s Irish time, you should be eating corned beef.Report
Thats just pastrami by another name.Report
… excuse me?
pastrami is smoked.Report
Like it’s ever a bad time for a truffled steak.Report
A good zin to drink with it?Report
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