Mike Nolan
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There's also some discussion of Italian Beef in this thread. Based on what my son sent me, I'm guessing he's using his sous vide rather than his instant pot these days.
I used the drippings and fat from an eye of round roast to make another batch of jus for Italian beef.
I used some beef bouillon in water, some onion, carrots and celery, a little garlic powder (since my wife won't be eating it anyway), oregano, basil, marjoram, thyme and parsley, plus some salt, a few peppercorns, a small amount of chipotle powder, several dashes of Worcestershire, and a bit of red wine. I let it boil as slowly as I could for over an hour until the volume had reduced by at least 50%.
Then I let it cool to about 140, put in 1/4 pound of sliced rare roast beef, and let it warm up for several minutes.
Not bad, I'd make it again. Still need to find a roll that can stand up to being dipped, though.
My Cuisinart has a feeder tube that doesn't do continuous feeding as the top won't come off, so I have to load it, chop it, take the feeder tube off (which stops the blades), reload it, put the feeder tube back on, etc. Most of the time I have to cut the cabbage into at least 4 and usually 8 pieces or they won't fit. I need to empty the 14 cup processor every 3-4 pieces, too.
I used the drippings from yesterday's eye of round roast to make another batch of jus for Italian Beef, I'll post the details in the Italian Beef recipe thread.
Came out pretty close, I'd make it again. The Chicago Metallic/KAF recipe for the sandwich roll pan fell apart when wet, so I need to keep looking there.
I can find mini-cheesecake pans by Norpro and Chicago Metallic on Amazon.
I made a batch of sauerkraut a couple of weeks ago using the 2mm shredding blade on my Cuisinart 14 cup food processor; it is at the tasting stage so I brought up a small bowl of it on Sunday.
We picked our first 3 small (4th of July) tomatoes today, there are over a dozen showing some color. We've got fruit on a number of other plants that should start ripening in a week or two, but a few days of cool weather would multiply the crop significantly.
Eye of round has the reputation for being tough and dry, but done on the rotisserie at a medium temperature it stays fairly tender and juicy. You'll never confuse it with filet, but it's pretty good.
They sell frozen cheesecake in stores, I don't know why you couldn't freeze yours.
It'd probably make a good tart pan, I like to make tarts with sable breton dough. They're a little tricky to handle because they're rather fragile, but they have a soft texture that people really like.
What's the diameter of each opening, I think I have one that has 6 openings, probably 3 inches in diameter.
I made my eye of round on the outdoor rotisserie today, it weighs in at about 4 1/2 pounds after cooking. I'm keeping some of it warm, wrapped in foil, for dinner tonight, the rest I'll let cool and then will slice up tomorrow. (This is one of those times when having a good slicer would be handy.)
I'm going to use the juice and drippings to try another batch of Italian beef jus, since my wife doesn't want gravy with her beef tonight. (Sigh, no mashed potatoes either.)
I've got a Meater Plus wireless meat thermometer, this may be the first time I've tried it on the outdoor grill, even with the repeater it barely went 20 feet before I lost connection, but it worked well enough as long as I left the repeater outside and my phone by the patio door.
Sounds like a great find, maybe a gold mine. I still wish I could make contact with Zen, she said she had the full recipe archives from KAF downloaded.
I've got close to a dozen tomatoes starting to show color, I may have ripe tomatoes to pick by next weekend.
The Aerogarden cherry tomatoes are blooming like crazy, I'm not sure if any fruit has set yet, I should know for sure in a few days.
My son says he more or less uses this recipe:
Italian BeefHe adds: with some tips I found elsewhere on jus temp, etc.
I ate Italian Beef for lunch nearly every day for about five years, so I'm definitely a fan.
Italian Beef fans will argue at lengths over Al's vs Mr. Beef vs Buona vs Portillos (and a few other candidates for 'best Italian beef'), as well as over how wet it should be (sopping!) and what toppings to use. When I was younger I liked it with the sport peppers, but these days I'm more a fan of sweet peppers. Giardiniera is IMHO a more recent addition to the mix, I can get it locally (in mild or hot versions), but it is kind of oily.
Ike tended to embellish his stories over time, the fact that he had his dates off by a few months isn't terribly persuasive.
Back when I was living in Chicago in the 70's, I knew one of the editors and business manager of Chicago Magazine (he was a fellow chess player), and even pitched him on the idea of a 'casual dining' food column for the magazine to complement the fine dining one. We decided to move to Nebraska before he could get the OK for the column, which did show up in the magazine a year or two later.
There was a lengthy story in the magazine on Chicago pizza around 1977, as I recall it divided Chicago pizza into 5 styles (I reviewed an early draft and I thought 7 was more accurate.) It was more a 'state of the pie' article than a historical treatise, though it did delve into the question of whether Nancy's invented stuffed pizza or the original Giordano's did. (My vote would have been for Nancy's.)
I'll have to ask my son what recipe he uses for his Italian beef, when he was taking it to his friend's now-closed restaurant for slicing (the restaurant served Italian beef), the owner told him his recipe was pretty good. I think he does it in an Instant Pot. I've made the Jeff Mauro recipe from scratch several times, it was pretty good but probably would have been much better if I could have sliced it thinner.
I tried the Serious Eats idea of buying pre-sliced meat, I think it has potential, but the real challenge with it is that the deli counters here only have roast beef that has been seasoned with garlic, so my wife either has to cut off the edges (it is probably a rub that doesn't get very far in) or eat something else.
If my wife sticks with her new food regime, with 2 servings of protein at each meal, I may buy a slicer, my son bought a "Chefs Choice" slicer on Amazon recently.
My wife doesn't like chicken skin, either, but if I take the skin off before cooking, the meat gets dry, so I leave it on but take it off before serving. I like chicken skin that has been fried and is crispy, but I'm not fond of it if it is chewy.
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