Posted by Lucy Baker, May 7, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Today's Cook the Book recipe is for thick, juicy, seared sirloin steaks. Not exactly your typical Mother's Day fare. But why shouldn't it be? Steak dinners are always special, whether eaten out at a swanky restaurant, or off a paper plate in your own backyard.
Paula Disbrowe's recipe marries hearty hunks of beef with a delicate, wine-saturated red onion marmalade. As she states in her head note: "I like the idea of giving a macho piece of meat a pretty and rather feminine treatment." The results are a little bit sweet, a little bit spicy, and definitely spectacular. What mom wouldn't love that?
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Posted by Nick Kindelsperger, April 23, 2008 at 4:15 PM
I usually reserve eating ribeye for when I am alone. When the fiancée is off interviewing for jobs and going to school, I’m home alone with a simply prepared steak and usually absolutely no vegetables. It’s simple, indulgent, and slightly embarrassing. The only flourish of cooking prowess was a pan sauce, most often made with red wine. Sometimes I didn’t even bother—too many times the sauce would come out bitter or too fatty. I needed some help.
According to Simple to Spectacular, this is as simple as pan sauces get. Luckily, it doesn’t really taste like it. The trick, I’ve learned, is to let the pan cool slightly and drain as much of the fat from the pan before deglazing. I’m always leery of adding anything extraneous to my steaks, but the ginger and soy never feel like they’re trying to steal the steak’s thunder. And that’s the way it should be. What the ginger and soy do for this recipe is accentuate some of the higher notes. The results tickle the back of your tongue instead of obscuring the seared goodness of a perfect steak.
This is also the first time I’ve ever not put salt on a steak. It felt weird. But the soy sauce more than made up for the missing sodium.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, April 21, 2008 at 3:45 PM
The first of our highlighted Cook the Book recipes out of the gate this week is adapted from an April Bloomfield dish in The Oprah Magazine Cookbook. Bloomfield is the chef at celebrated New York City gastropub The Spotted Pig. And though this dish is not on the menu there, having had several other of Bloomfield's plates, I'd imagine this one is up there, too. I'm clipping it and adding it to my summer grilling menu to find out for sure.
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Posted by Ed Levine, December 16, 2007 at 2:00 PM
I always love the idea of cooking Sunday supper for myself and Vicky and Will. Now that Will's off at college I still look forward to cooking a meal for Vicky on Sundays. Will's coming home tomorrow for winter break, so I will happily be cooking for three again. Today's Sunday supper recipe is Tom Colicchio's pan-roasted sirloin, adapted from Think Like a Chef. It's a simple preparation and guaranteed to satisfy anyone's carnivorous urges. Utilizing Colicchio's method guarantees a nice caramelized exterior and a tender, juicy interior.The recipe serves two, but it is easily doubled. Serve it with a baked potato with sour cream and a green salad.
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