I've been making myself steaks recently. If I had known it would be this easy I would've made myself steaks all the time long before. Sure they're not as good as what you can get at a nice restaurant, but when it only costs a quarter of what a restaurant charges to make them myself, then they are pretty darn good. The taste to cost ratio is quite high.
How did I come to this revelation? My uncle is a really good cook and while I was home one weekend he asked me if I wanted a steak, and I said sure. Ten minutes later it was ready. I was like WTH, so fast! And it was good. And that was when I discovered his time machine.
So he explained to me the magic of the dry rub. Starting with a decent cut of steak (I usually choose New York strip), I massage in black pepper, salt, and some other random spices on both sides. Then I put it on a hot pan with a little bit of oil. Heat both sides roughly four minutes or so and I'm done. EASY PEASY. Although I still can't tell if I've hit medium without stabbing into it with a knife. Since I feel guilty for eating just red meat, I'll usually eat it with cooked spinach, which is like the easiest vegetable to cook. Heat up garlic in oil, add the raw spinach and a bit of salt, and it's done in a few minutes. You don't even need to add water because the spinach is composed so much of it already. NOM NOM NOM.
2 comments:
just sear it and eat it. rare is amazing.
if you go to berkeley bowl you can get restaurant grade cuts of beef. but its like $20 a pound.
i bet your favorite cut is rump
you know, i had a similar revelation, and for a time, i ate steak at least once a week. But then the whole mad cow thing hit and so I cut down on my beef intake. now, I eat lots of chicken.
i bet your favorite rump is cut.
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