Sometime in the late 2000s the coffee-rubbed steak was a minor trend in our local restaurants, not at the steak and chop houses so much as the upscale restaurants that feel obligated to have a steak on the menu. The most common pairing was coffee and chili, usually rubbed on an inexpensive butcher’s cut like……
Ingredient: kosher salt or coarse sea salt
Weeknight Sous Vide Ribeye
Weeknight Sous Vide Ribeye is more public service announcement than recipe. It’s a message from one amateur chef to another to illustrate just how consarned easy it is to make a perfect steak on a weeknight using the sous vide method. It takes a little bit of special equipment but very little skill. As I……
Orange-Spiced Pot Roast (Oklahoma, 1970s adapted)
Orange-Spiced Pot Roast is an international approach to the traditional Yankee pot roast. The recipe comes to me by way of Adventures in Food, a 1970s cookbook from my parents’ Oklahoma congregation. It’s a surprisingly adventuresome dish for this cookbook, where most of the main dish recipes are practical weeknight meals. Like most 1970s……