"What's cooking for dinner - July 2017"

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Boy, Jimmy -- that looks delicious. What cut of beef is that?


It was an Eye round, and I cut it in half. Froze 1/2. It was well done (Tina's Choice) but it was tender.
Usually, we pick up a huge eye round, and the kids come over. I drag out the meat slicer, and shave the beef so we can have Roy Rogers roast beef sandwiches on seeded rolls, and cups of augue to dip the beef in.

bethk wrote:Bugs....take some benedryl and let it make you go to sleep.  That will help with the itching.  I was in misery, like you, after we went to Key West and I got bit a hundred times by the 'no-see-'em' mosquitos.  No one else was affected, just me ~ and the severe itching didn't hit until 7 days later, after we got home.

Nothing topical helped but the benedryl caplets did help make it more bearable although it didn't stop completely.  Good luck.  Baking soda paste might help somewhat on the big swollen ones, however.  Worth a try.

Imelda HL wrote:

Crybaby wrote:

NormM wrote:

bethk wrote:I know it's around the area.  There's a Mexican restaurant I like to go to and their fajita supper comes with a WHOLE skirt steak, cooked to a perfect medium rare, that you cut into pieces and then slice across the grain for your tortilla.  It's really, really good.

So maybe the beef producers only sell the good stuff to restaurants because they've found not many people in The Villages cook meals on a regular basis.

LOL

I suspect fewer people cook on a regular basis than we realize.

I never even see skirt steak for sale in a local grocery -- no lie.  I'm not even sure I've ever seen it.  I wish we had a couple of "real" butcher shops around here.  

I saw on the cooking show, they grilled skirt steak a lot, I rarely see it on the stores either, I don;t know if I ever ate it, maybe in a burrito/quesadilla, but never ate the grilled ones, I always want to grill it but I have no idea if it's tender or tough meat cut..

NormM wrote:Bugs. The first time I heard of tri tip was when I was invited to spend a few days with friends and Joanie Sommers at Pismo Beach in 2003. It was served in a sandwich.  I later learned that it was a very early Mexican cowboy cook out favorite.  It is called Santa Marie BBQ and there is a recipe here

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/santa-maria-style-bbq-tri-tip-recipe-2014974

Imelda HL wrote:

I saw on the cooking show, they grilled skirt steak a lot, I rarely see it on the stores either, I don;t know if I ever ate it, maybe in a burrito/quesadilla, but never ate the grilled ones, I always want to grill it but I have no idea if it's tender or tough meat cut..

bethk wrote:It's just another example of what use to be a 'throw away' cut of beef, or something that was tossed into the bin to be ground up for hamburger, that is now popular (and tasty) and the price has sky rocketed.

Crybaby wrote:

bethk wrote:It's just another example of what use to be a 'throw away' cut of beef, or something that was tossed into the bin to be ground up for hamburger, that is now popular (and tasty) and the price has sky rocketed.

I just about died this morning when I checked out our local grocery's circular in the paper -- there it WAS!  Skirt steak that I'd never even seen advertised before or, to my knowledge, in the meat case.  $8.99 a pound!  Was so surprised to see it but not surprised by the price....

bethk wrote:I know Jake doesn't care for 'tough or chewy' meat so pork chops on the grill would not be a favorite.  But I figured one of the little pork tenderloins would be just fine with him.  And I was right.  He loved it.  He even liked the Kalbi Beef Marinade / Glaze (store bought) I put on it when it was on the grill and had a little bit to spoon over.  I grilled the rest of the sweet corn (it wasn't nearly as good as when it was fresh but sitting in the refrigerator for a few days was what happened to it.....I almost forgot it was in there!).  And I know Jacob likes his potatoes so a few boiled potatoes are always in order ~ and he doesn't mind sharing a few with his grandma.

bethk wrote:To heck with Jacob.......I would love a supper of chicken fried steak & mashed potatoes!   LOL

Bugster2 wrote:Nathan's grilled hot dogs tonight. I had my endoscopy yesterday and my throat is pretty bruised and swollen. Feels like I have a balled up sock stuck back there.

Bugster2 wrote:Nathan's grilled hot dogs tonight. I had my endoscopy yesterday and my throat is pretty bruised and swollen. Feels like I have a balled up sock stuck back there.