Gravy's Cooking Thread

The citrus in the marinade helps make things nice and tender!

Don't forget to let it rest for nearly as long as you cook it.

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I love a good skirt steak. Though for fajitas I prefer flank.

Glad that marinade worked out. I've found it pretty good. Works quite well with almost any beef - even thicker cut roasts of questionable quality come out nice if you give them a good, long soak.

And yeah, I have a chimney for my grill, too. Hard to imagine going back to doing it without. There are times, though, that I wish I had a gas grill. I almost pulled the trigger on this thing:

Char-Griller Duo 3-Burner Propane Gas/Charcoal Grill-5050 at The Home Depot

Soygen_sl said:

On a semi-related note, I just bought a 'chimney' starter for my grill and I don't know how I lived without one. It's so simple and works so awesome. I bought this one a couple weeks ago:Amazon.com : Weber 7416 Rapidfire Chimney Starter : Charcoal Starters : Patio, Lawn Garden

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Glad your steak turned out, Soybro.

I am also tickled you got the Weber Chimney starter. I've had quite of few of the cheapie $5 chimney starters, and the Weber is designed SO much better than the others.

Put that marinade in the first post. I am on my phone and too lazy.

I was all ready to partake in my first skirt steak experience at home, stopped by the grocery store on the way home Friday night, was going to marinate them and grill on Saturday, but then when I got to the butchers counter they had KC Strips(NY Strip if you aren't in the midwest) on sale for $7.99 a pound, whereas the skirt steak was only about $1 less. Strip is usually $10-$12 a pound around here, so I had to jump on it. There's not much better than the ease and taste of a good strip. Salt,(and sometimes garlic salt) slap on grill for 3-4 mins on each side = medium rare. Hell of a meal in 10 minutes, no waiting for marinade or anything. Damn they're good, I couldn't pass them up at that price.

I got about 2 hours left on the pork shoulder in the crock pot. I have never done it before and found the recipe on the Keto boards, I hope it doesn't suck.


Salt
Pepper
Mustard
Garllilc Powder
Onion Powder (Or an Onion) **I went with the Onion**
1 Onion
? Cup Cider Vinegar
? Cup Water
2 tsp Liquid Smoke


I'll post back in a bit and let you know how it tastes.

A quick word on liquid smoke. There is only one:

http://www.wrightsliquidsmoke.com/

WHERE WERE YOU 6 DAYS AGO WHEN I REQUESTED ASSISTANCE!?


The Highlander of liquid smoke?

lurkingdirk_sl said:

For skirt steak, if you're feeling like Mexican, try this:

http://www.natural-beef.com/pdf/reci...kirt-Steak.pdf

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Yeah, I'm so going to make that for my birthday. I need a few good sides to go with it, though. I'm up for suggestions. I'm going to crack open my last box of Monte Cristos, and the GF and I are going to get very slowly blotto on Herradura Tequila Sunsets.

Uncle Gravy_sl said:

A quick word on liquid smoke. There is only one:

http://www.wrightsliquidsmoke.com/

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Yesssssss time for some smoked sous vide food.

The shoulder turned out extremely tender but it was a little bland, nothing some horseradish can't fix.

Hekotat_sl said:

WHERE WERE YOU 6 DAYS AGO WHEN I REQUESTED ASSISTANCE!?


The Highlander of liquid smoke?

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Sorry, man, I must have missed it.