Sunday night... Steak time

[meaux fishing]

I got tired of seeing y'all's food posts so I decided to cook my self a steak and make my own...

First you have to start with a good quality steak... I just happen to have a couple laying around.
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Then you sear it in a cast iron skillet in pastured pork lard from a pig we bought from another local farmer. Cook a sweet potato and some green beans and you got a nice little meal goin
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[Matt G]

Ho-Ly Crap..... I'm all about a good steak. I just can't see paying all that money at a restaurant for a steak I can cook better at home. How do you prefer yours? I think past medium rare is a waste of a good steak.

[BIG-C]

Like I said in the other post,damn,I just ate pop tarts,that's not fair.

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by Matt G

Ho-Ly Crap..... I'm all about a good steak. I just can't see paying all that money at a restaurant for a steak I can cook better at home. How do you prefer yours? I think past medium rare is a waste of a good steak.

Yeah I eat it med rare. I also poured the garlic, herb, butter mixture that I cooked the green beans in over the steak

[jchief]

Looks great.

If I wanted to buy some beef from you, how would I do it? Per say a 1/4 of a cow

[meaux fishing]

You would let me know, I would put your name down on a list, you would send me a deposit, I will let you know a couple weeks before we take em to Elliot's. We generally hang em for 2 weeks, then they get cut. You can either come pick up the meat at the house or at Elliot's in Morse

[ScubaLatt]

Never cooked a steak in a cast iron skillet only over a flame. How long do u cook it? If u don't have lard what would u put in skillet?

[PotLikinisAhabbit]

Any oil with high smoke point will work i do 90 seconds on side one, 60 seconds on side two, then top with butter garlic sauce and finish in the oven for a couple minutes at 425 depending on the thickness of steak. I eat mine rare and the cast iron is my favorite way to cook a steak.

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by PotLikinisAhabbit

Any oil with high smoke point will work i do 90 seconds on side one, 60 seconds on side two, then top with butter garlic sauce and finish in the oven for a couple minutes at 425 depending on the thickness of steak. I eat mine rare and the cast iron is my favorite way to cook a steak.

I prefer a searing plate on a gas burner outside.
I get the plate real hot and sear it on each side for about 15 seconds then back off the heat. It seals all the juices in.
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[PotLikinisAhabbit]

I would like to get something like that. Where would be a good place to look for a searing plate?

[PotLikinisAhabbit]

almost looks like it would double as a lid for a pot?

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by PotLikinisAhabbit

I would like to get something like that. Where would be a good place to look for a searing plate?

Go talk to Paul Ayo at E's Kitchen in the Parc Lafayette shopping center

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by ScubaLatt

Never cooked a steak in a cast iron skillet only over a flame. How long do u cook it? If u don't have lard what would u put in skillet?

I like mine med rare I do 3 minutes on one side and 2 minutes on the other on my steaks. They are 1 1/4" thick. Olive oil is my second choice. I season with only salt and pepper when I put them into the pan

[swamp snorkler]

Look up Alton Browns method on Youtube, that's how I cook my steaks. Very similar to what Meaux does.

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by PotLikinisAhabbit

almost looks like it would double as a lid for a pot?

Yep sure is.


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[DannyI]

Thats the way to do it, sear on grill, finish on grill plate with some butter sauce to degree of rare. Starting doing this when I saw several restaraunts do it that serve excellant steaks.

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by Matt G

I think past medium rare is a waste of a good steak.

Agreed.

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by meaux fishing

I got tired of seeing y'all's food posts so I decided to cook my self a steak and make my own...

First you have to start with a good quality steak... I just happen to have a couple laying around.
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Then you sear it in a cast iron skillet in pastured pork lard from a pig we bought from another local farmer. Cook a sweet potato and some green beans and you got a nice little meal goin
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That's a nice finishing job for grass. We could only do that well on pasture by turning them loose in the purple top turnips.

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by MathGeek

That's a nice finishing job for grass. We could only do that well on pasture by turning them loose in the purple top turnips.

That's actually not even a finished steak. That's just the grassfed beef we sell at the farmers market.

[SigNate]

Excellent meal!!!!!!!!!!!