2010 February | Go Meat Yourself

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By Jessica | February 22, 2010 | Main Courses | No comments

With all the recent hand-wringing over the Angosturapocalypse (most recently, an Observer article on February 12), we were surprised to find jumbo $15 bottles at Spuyten Duyvil Grocery this weekend. Apparently, however, a woman who walked into Clover Club during a recent afternoon… (more from NYMag from whence this came)

(oh, and clover club can also go back from whence they came, which as i understand it, it’s my asshole garnished with gold leaf.)

By Jessica | February 10, 2010 | Main Courses, Recipes | 4 Comments

In my efforts to eat responsibly, B and I have been buying locally-sourced steaks and grinding them mothers up for ground beef. When we made burgers with it, it smelled just like a grilled streak. YUM.

Fer two burgers:

1 pound chuck steak
1/4 pound asiago cheese
selection of fresh shitakes and button mushrooms
lil bit of goat cheese
butter
truffle oil
2 Sweet Portuguese buns (or whatever you like to eat your burgers on)

Grind your meat and add NOTHING to it. And you know who told me to that? My dude, the Burger King of Brooklyn, Kyle. I asked Kyle to give me some tips on how to make the best burger, what to put in them, what to top them with, etc. He said, leave the fucking meat alone! (he didn’t yell at me though)… Make a patty, put some salt and pepper on the patty. Cook that patty. And patty abandonment was what I did. He was right. This was wrong.

Topped the burger with melted asiago and a puree of mushrooms that had been sauteed in butter and then pureed with a bit of goat cheese and a tad of truffle oil – dead ass, great burger. And the best part is that you can eat it while it still says moo cause you aint getting no ecoli, eboli or tricanosis up in this grass-fed biz.

Oh, the fries were whatever so I wont provide instruction, but they were regular thin cut fries, baked and topped with micro-planed Parmesan and lemon zest.