A Hungry Bear

new york strip and fall vegetable roast with mustard cream sauce

Thursday, December 3, 2009

I think I’ve finally started to cook enough roasts that I’m starting to get the hang of it. The most important thing I’ve learned is that you absolutely have to use a meat thermometer, and start checking it not even halfway through the amount of time you think it will need to cook. [...]

korean sizzling beef

Monday, October 19, 2009

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I can’t believe it’s been so long since my last post! Work has been so busy I haven’t had much time for cooking - it feels like our household is single-handedly keeping Mellow Mushroom in business. Now that it’s getting colder, I won’t be running out to grab takeout as often. Good [...]

thai steak salad with cilantro and mint

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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This is another recipe from the Food & Wine article about Pok Pok, one of the best Thai restaurants in the US (which is in Portland, naturally). I would be hard pressed to tell you my favorite between this and the thai whiskey marinated ribs I blogged about a while ago… This isn’t [...]

chimichurri steak salad

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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I absolutely love this recipe - and the entire article where I found it in Bon Appetit (15 quick meals). After our indulgent 14000 calories/day trip to South Beach, I’m under strict orders to cook only vegetables and protein for dinner. I could either steam some broccoli and grill some chicken and fall [...]

steak with olives and parsley

Monday, March 9, 2009

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I clipped this recipe out of Gourmet a year ago, and stuck it in my “food ideas” binder with all the other recipes I intend to try at some point. I honestly can’t believe it has taken me a year to get to this - it’s steak, it’s fast, and the few ingredients are [...]

yogurt-marinated steak kebabs with lemon butter

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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Wouldn’t it have been so catchy if I had posted this the day after the Oscars, and made it some sort of tribute to Slumdog Millionaire? Well, I’ve been busy. So this will just have to be a generic post about how I tried to make Indian-inspired food for the first time. [...]

love your steak, part 2: roasted garlic butter

Sunday, February 8, 2009

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As I mentioned yesterday, this is the second of two of my favorite steak sauces. I’m not sure if this is the way they make the roasted garlic butter at Kevin Rathbun Steak, but it’s so good I don’t mind. I served this recently with roasted brussel sprouts with pancetta and sweet potato [...]

love your steak, part 1: bearnaise sauce

Saturday, February 7, 2009

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Instead of scrambling to make dinner reservations on Valentine’s Day, where every restaurant is obligated to do a prix fix “tasting menu” and shoo you in and out on a 90 minute turn, we like to stay home. And cook steak. We’ll take the excuse to go out of course, but just the [...]

gorgonzola and walnut stuffed flank steak

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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Flank steak is one of my favorite cuts of beef to feed a group (or one large bear). It’s inexpensive, if you pick a good cut it’s quite lean, and it dresses up so well. You can stuff it with many combinations (try spinach, feta & pine nuts), but this particular recipe is [...]

grilled steak with arugula, fennel and orange salad

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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This recipe ended up only being “inspired by” the original in Food & Wine magazine. I fully intended to try it unadulterated, but ended up finding a good deal on NY strip (as opposed to skirt steak) while at the same time NOT being able to find fregola. (Side note: while I couldn’t [...]