Beef and Ale Stew with Buttermilk Scallion Dumplings
In other parts of the country, the hopeful are posting photos of crocuses and fledgling blossoms. In Midcoast Maine we’ve seen snow every day…
Category: Beef
Big Barbecue Burgers
Today’s sandwich is the “Big Barbecue Burger.” It combines a 1/3 pound hamburger patty, cheddar cheese, barbecue sauce, French fried onions, and avocado on…
Curried Sausage Buns
The first thing you should know about these sausage buns is that they contain zero sausage. No pork whatsoever. Sin salchicha. Totally Kosh. I’m…
How to Make “Texas Red” Chili
It’s important that we start with a matter of full disclosure. I’ve spent next to no time in Texas, or at least no more…
Crispy Orange Beef Recipe
Crispy orange-flavored beef (or chicken) is another staple dish from the world of picture-based Chinese takeout menus. Like General Tso’s, if the dish actually…
Sirloin Steak Tips Au Poivre
I’d always assumed that so-called “steak tips,” those cut up chunks of beef slowly greying under cellophane at the bargain end of the meat…
Patty Melt
The first time I remember consciously eating myself well past the point of simple satiation and into some kind of gluttonous, fattened stupor was…
Beef Short Rib Chili with Beans
During a six month period in 2003, I found myself living as a bachelor in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Our rental broker had assured us…
Eggs Florentine Burger
Immediately after our daughter Violet was born, I purchased a life insurance policy with the idea that, in the case of my untimely demise,…
Easy Enchiladas Rojas
In four years spent living in the Southern tip of Mexico, I don’t think I ever had an enchilada. There were plenty of tacos,…
“American Style” Ground Beef Tacos
During the last years of his life, my father lived with us in our house in Mexico. It wasn’t a great leap; getting to…
How to Make Smoked Beef Brisket
To put it into the simplest possible terms: Smoking beef brisket is nothing like making pulled pork. Making pulled pork is a perfect first…
How to Cook a Steak Perfectly Every Time
I don’t consider myself much of a “steak and potato” guy. If I were in a situation where I was forced at gunpoint to self-identify…
Diner-Style Cheeseburger Sliders
In spite of what the good people down at the local T.G.I. Cantinagan’s might be trying to sell you (hint: it’s deep-fried Jack Daniels…
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Grilled Flank Steak Tacos with Chipotle Rhubarb Salsa
You know what’s a reasonable thing to have in your garden? A rhubarb plant. You know what’s less reasonable? Having ten enormous rhubarb plants.…
Sloppy Joe Recipe With Chorizo
Is there a more quintessentially American food than the Sloppy Joe? Okay, so the sandwich, a slurry of beef, onion, and sweet tomato sauce,…
Veal Osso Buco
Osso Buco is all about the marrow. To paraphrase Thoreau, “…live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,…” The name refers to…
Taquitos de Lengua with Salsa Roja
Who would have expected New Haven, Connecticut to be home to one of the most exciting developing Mexican taco truck scenes we’ve ever seen?…
Corned Beef Hash
For me, a traditional New England Boiled Dinner, complete with potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and cabbage, is only a necessary stop along the path between…
Irish Corned Beef and Cabbage
Once you have settled on the idea that the days of drinking pale green tinted beer until you lose vision in your right eye…
Creamed Chipped Beef On Toast
Look, these are tough economic times. Not every lunch can be the aged hangar steak at Five Fifty-Five, and not every dinner can be…
Short Ribs with Tagliatelle
There’s something about taking inexpensive, tough cuts of meat, and slowly, over the course of a cool, rainy autumn Friday, turning them into tender,…