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Say Moo: Grass-fed Beef Burgers with Asiago and Truffled Mushroom Moose

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.

Grass-fed Beef Burger with Asiago Cheese and Truffled Mushroom Moose

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.

Me and Pork Chops 2Getha 4Evah

I don’t like pork chops. Something about all that white meat that is far too… meaty for me. I know, I know. You’re like, wtf. This chick writes some bullshit about not liking meat on her own crap site called Go Meat Yourself!? I’m a hypocrite – what can I say? Well, I can say this: pile me up a slab of dark meat; juicy, fatty, tender dark meat (I swear to christ my mouth is watering right now) and I will go to town. But, if I’m trying to please my man in the kitchen – hold up, let me clarify. So, if I’m trying to please my man by COOKING my man what my man likes, and if what he likes is pork chops, baby gonna cook him some pork chops. Baby just gonna have to find a way to hide that shit under a whole lotta flava. So check it. I present to you Parmesan Crusted Pork Chops over a Green Salad with Goat Cheese.

Parmesan Crusted Pork Chops over a Green Salad with Goat Cheese

For the meat:
2 boneless, center-cut pork chops, about 1/2 thick
1/2 fresh large grated parmesan
2 eggs, mixed in a bowl
1 cup of plain bread crumbs
1 tbs dried rosemary
a sprinkle of dried thyme and/or oregano
salt and pepper for taste
oil of choice for frying

For the salad:
Salad greens for two, preferably mesclun
2 stalks of scallion, sliced
some goat cheese to your liking
olive oil
1 lemon, cut in 4

Salt and pepper your pork chops. Put your eggs in a bowl. Mix the bread crumbs and your herbs into a bowl. Coat the chops in the parmesan and make sure it really sticks. Dip the chops in the egg and next in the bread crumbs. Heat a heavy skillet with your fryin oil and drop each chop in when hot. You know its hot enough when you flick a bit of water and it sizzles. Cook for about 5 minutes on either side. Cut into the chop to know its not bloody still and you won’t die or horrific death of trichinosis. While the are cooking up…

Add your salad greens to each plate. Distribute the goat cheese – or if you like, bleu, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Squeeze one quarter of each lemon over each salad. Drizzle with olive oil.

When the porkies are done, place directly on top of the salad. Drizzle some of each of the remaining lemon wedge halves and let sit them sit on the plate for additional squeezing by your eater. (They like to get involved).

This goes well with beer and a side of Family Guy while you eat.