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Do you guys ever make risotto?

Simple Risotto

Creamy (yet cream-less) and satisfying, you can’t go wrong with making this Italian delight – all you have to do is stir and you end up with tender rice and nutrient-rich spinach blended with white wine and Parmesan.

Striploins. Home made fries. Broccoli. GMD beer.

Never. I prefer LMD's cooking.

From watching on MasterChef it looks like a lot more work that I am willing to put into a side dish.

But I might be wrong as Gordon can make a scrambled egg look complicated.

RE: pork Carnita

Accrete wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:25 pm Let us know how it turns out. Saved the recipe for next time go shopping and see pork roast on sale.

It was good. I did not follow the recipe. I had no orange juice so I subbed 1 TBS of lime juice. I also added a can of tomatoes and green chilies. I will make it again following the recipe. The searing in the hot skillet did not work very well. I suspect the drained, shredded, back in a hot oven is the more workable option.

Between the chicken and pork I prefer the chicken.

I have found that the local butcher's "top sirloin" steaks, are significantly better than the grocery store striploins. We pay about the same price for the local butchers sirloin meat, as compared to the grocery store striploins, but in terms of "grade", well, I'll happily pay for a great top sirloin steak over a lesser quality strip loin. I can't imagine why the difference texture and taste as I know next to nothing about the beef industry, but I'll assume the butchers cows were "happy" cows.

Don't know about Canada. In the US there are 3 official grades, Select, Choice, Prime and one no grade. Then there is beef and Angus beef. Angus is almost always better. IMO 1 grade lower of Angus is the same or better than regular beef. Select may just be another name for NG. I'm not real sure about that. NG just means that the packer did not pay for an inspector to grade the meat, they only certified the safety of the meat (they watched the cow walk to the kill zone).

Supermarket meat is often Select, the lowest grade and often not Angus. Your local butcher may be a better grade or it might just be Angus. Currently at the wholesale level here in town there is about $2 a pound difference between NG and Choice for a whole Ribeye.

And let's not forget grass fed and grain fed. Grass fed can be good but mostly is not. Standing around a feedlot eating grain and not getting a lot of exercise produces that nice marbling effect. Kinda like what we are doing during this Covid thing.

I do know that the NG top loin I bought at the wholesale house and slow butchered is vastly superior to any grocery store meat I purchased in the last 3 years.

There was a good deal on lean hamburger and chops when went shopping so stocked up...

Did I tell you that Mom use to make a dish called Taddy Ash? It is kind of like stew without the flour to make gravy.
- hamburger
- potatoes
- carrots
- celery
- onion
In a pot with water. Salt, pepper and celery salt to season.

Sometimes she would make suet dumplings to go with it.

Here is something for those hot days you guys were talking about in the other thread: Sweet Cherry Lime Popsicles

Accrete wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 4:27 pm Sometimes she would make suet dumplings to go with it.

What is a suet dumpling? I never heard of it.

The other dish sounds a lot like Shepard's Pie.

Colbyt wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:58 pm Don't know about Canada. In the US there are 3 official grades, Select, Choice, Prime and one no grade. Then there is beef and Angus beef. Angus is almost always better.

I do know that the NG top loin I bought at the wholesale house and slow butchered is vastly superior to any grocery store meat I purchased in the last 3 years.

Here, in our grocery stores, there's the regular beef, and then the Angus, which is more expensive. And, somewhat surprisingly, the price of the Angus and the local butcher's grade (whatever that is) is roughly the same price. That said, the butchers meat is better.

I'd like to know more about the grade of meat, and will ask next time if I remember, but because of the virus, they only allow one person in the store at a time (or if you have your significant other with you, they'll allow 2), so you kind of have to buy, and then scoot.