Gravy's Cooking Thread

Skirt steak and flank steak are both delicious and both expensive as hell nowadays. I mean shit... around here those two cuts are almost as expensive as ribeye.

Usually flank or skirt. Most places around here use flank.

There isn't all that much of a difference, both are delicious when cooked properly. But I do prefer skirt to flank.

Speaking of Carne Asada I had some leftover pork shoulder country style ribs so I decided to shred them and make a burrito and made a green chile sauce to slather said burrito in last night for dinner. The pork shoulder had a decent amount of fat and I crisped it up nice before shredding the pork. It was heaven on a plate.

You should see the price of grouper here in CT. It always starts with the letter M!

Well I have no choice but to make Tri-tip tomorrow. This thread makes me so damn hungry.

Dug a pit on the beach this afternoon to get a metric fucktonne of coals going so we can cook huge amounts of pork ribs underground tomorrow. Fire will burn for about 8 hours, then we'll wrap and bury the pork, it will cook for around 30 hours underground. Will report back. I'm excited.

mkopec_sl said:

Yeah, they are both around $7.99/lb around me. sometimes you can get T-bones for $6.99 when on sale.

Question, what cut is used for carne asada? Like the shit that they slice up for fajitas in restaurants?

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Actually its usually thin slices of chuck roast cut against the grain. Flank and skirt is too gamey (in my opinion) to eat in a flour tortilla. Pretty sure you got Mexican markets in Detroit, hit one up and go the meat section and look for "diezmillo" which you can find prepackaged.

Its worth it to make BBQ sauce at home.

I use this one all the time

Epic BBQ Sauce | Vegetables Recipes | Jamie Oliver Recipes

Actually... watch this video at about 5:00 for the better version'
Jamie At Home S01E03 [Barbecue] - Video Dailymotion

Yeah.. watch the one in the video. The one in the Jamie At Home recipe is the one I use.. One of my favorite cooking show episodes ever. I do just about every one of dishes he does in that over the course of the summer.

The episode on tomatoes (S1E1 I think) is amazing too. My garden has 24 tomato plants, about 18 different types of tomatos, most of which I put in there with plans to make these all summer.

Can't wait for the fucking Sungold and Supersweet 100s to come in, just had my first outbreak of blossoms..... sooooon.

This is the recipe for the Mothership Tomato Salad.. I make this about 5 times a summer with my garden tomatos


One change I make though is I use Burrata instead of Mozzarella.