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Posted: Thu 04 Feb , 2016 1:40 pm
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Oops, sorry.

dl = (I assume) deciliter (1/10 of a liter)
dkg = dekagram (0.01 kg or 10 grams)

My kitchen scale measures in either ounces or grams, but I'm sure there are conversions online. I also wouldn't be surprised if some kitchen site has weights of flour and sugar converted to cups.

btw, I should also add that "knead the ingredients together" doesn't mean to knead the dough like bread, just to mix it all together with your hands.

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Plum Jam

Makes about 2 1/2 cups

1 pound plums, halved and stoned
2 cups (450g) warmed sugar

Place the plums in a pan with 1/2 cup water and bring to a simmer, then cook gently for 10 minutes until the plums are soft but still intact.

Add the warmed sugar to the fruit and stir over a low heat until all the sugar has dissolved, then turn up the heat and boil rapidly to reach setting point. Skim if necessary.

Pour the jam into hot, sterilized jar and seal.

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Some random good advice from Gordon Ramsay:

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This was simple, but good, as a vegetable side dish. Amounts are to taste:

Roman fava (broad) beans

tablespoon or two of olive oil
pancetta, cut into small pieces (I used regular ham, not having any pancetta on hand)
fava beans, shelled
shallot or 1/4 small onion, diced

Saute pancetta/ ham and onion/ shallot for a few minutes in olive oil, until onion is limp or lightly browned. Add fava beans, stir and cook for a minute or two. Add water (barely cover beans), put a lid on the pot and simmer for 8-15 minutes, until beans are cooked through. Remove lid, boil off any remaining water if necessary.

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Anyone here an expert on beef tenderloin steak? I tried grilling some - the flavour was good, but not so much the texture - it came out quite tough.

Shouldn't tenderloin be tender?

Should I stew it instead of grilling it? Or....?

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Posted: Wed 12 Sep , 2018 10:25 am
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I'm not an expert Jude, but I find the trick with most steaks is not to cook them too fresh. They need to be aged and hung. I suppose you could use a tenderising hammer. Also, never cook from chilled. Get it to room temp first, preferably in a marinade.

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I'll try that. Last time, it went straight from the fridge to the grill.

Do you have a favourite marinade to use?

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I normally use balsamic with some crushed garlic and maybe a splash of BBQ sauce (I prefer Rudys, but any will do really), or if I'm feeling lazy, just the Rudy's. You don't want to smother the flavour if its a really good steak though.

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Cool, I'll give that a try.

I did end up subscribing to the meat service. I'm about two-thirds the way through my first shipment, and I thought I had lots of time to spare, but I just got an email saying they were preparing my next shipment :Q

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Posted: Thu 13 Sep , 2018 10:13 am
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One other thing. Season your steak or chops as you cook, or just before. Don't season and leave to sit as it will draw the moisture out of the meat to the surface. You want to lock it in. This is why you should sear the meat both sides at the start also.

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Aha. Another thing I did wrong.

The question is - did I do anything right? :Q

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I'm not a good chef, but I like cooking meat! :)

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The Cooks Illustrated people have an interesting method to cook steaks, where you pre-warm them in the oven. There are directions for medium rare to medium. It works well for us, but we don't like ours rare and I hate any pink in mine (I know, that's sacrilege, but hey, at least I'm unlikely to get E coli O157 or any of its nasty relatives from meat. :) Not the main reason I do it, though - pink and oozing just turns me off.)

https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_to ... re-searing

They don't give you access to the actual recipe for free, but a blogger has it:
https://thisweekfordinner.com/cooking-t ... ect-steak/

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You'd enjoy eating with my sister. She shares your horror of any pinkness in her meat, and prefers her steaks cooked to the consistency of a hockey puck :D

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I prefer reddish pink, with red juices. Actually, as long as the inside is heated up a bit, I'm good. ;)

If the meat was from the loin, Jude, it ought to be fairly tender unless they butchered a really old beast. Or maybe they didn't age it long enough. I've left steaks thawed in the fridge for a week sometimes, when I know the meat wasn't aged quite as long as I like and that helps.

You can also buy a stabby thing.....
https://www.amazon.com/Tenderizer-Stain ... 9EMN099FN5

I've made tougher cuts of meat edible with a gadget like that. I don't like marinades.

You can tell how done a steak is by pushing on it with your finger while cooking. A lot of resistance means it's probably already grey inside. All squishy means it's raw inside. Somewhere in between is shown by varying degrees of firmness. I stopped using a meat thermometer on steaks after I learned that technique.


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That stabby thing is terrifying. Won't it make tasty juice leak out?

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I use the fingertip test for calculating rareness. Oh and ++1 to Maria's suggestion of aging the meat in the fridge. Let the meat go brownish, not pink.

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/t ... s_of_meat/

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I used to be freaked out if there was any pink in my steak, but now I'm okay with it. The bacteria would be on the outside of the steak (provided the steak is not spoiled throughout, which you're probably screwed anyway if that's the case). So cooking it to medium well or barely well done works for me. For steak only. Hamburger, no way. That meat is all mixed up, so there can be no pink in my burgers.

Other than that, I have no input, but I'm taking notes. I do know to let the meat rest for while after cooking.

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You're right that most of the bacteria will be on the outside of a solid piece of meat and you'll probably be OK, but, still, it's not something I'd bet on, especially if I was immunosuppressed. For instance, tenderizing methods can translocate microorganisms inside. I assume marinades might be able to carry things along, too, though the acidity might be inhibiting. The trouble with E coli O157 and its relatives is that the dose needed to infect a person is thought to be very low. Nasty little buggers, too. Something like Salmonella needs a much, much higher dose.

That said, I'm with you on the hamburgers. There's surface area everywhere in ground beef and it makes a very nice incubator. That's the one piece of meat I will absolutely send back if it's pink inside. With a steak, I'd probably just eat around the pink bits.

Jude, my steaks could fairly be described as hockey pucks, too. In self defense,* my husband does the grilling.


*In his own self-defense, I mean. He prefers a bit of pink, but will cook mine to near-hockey puck consistency to suit me.

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