Well Happy Marvelous Monday You Cutie Smoked Cookies!!!!
And here's to a wonderful new week!!!!!
It is, for the record, right now RAINING, SLEETING AND SNOWING, (is that even possible or is the blend a mere mirage), like crazy, on the Seacoast of New Hampshire.
BUT, "we bring our own sunshine," or in this case, "SMOKED OSTRICH STEAK AU POIVRE," and while I've been biased, partial, and in love with ostrich steak for some near two decades by now; I DO hope that somebody out there may just enjoy this a little bit too!
Thanks for sharing in my dinner!
Cheers! - Leah
I had a couple things to use up on this rainy day, without trekking out to the store - green onions, some mixed salad greens, two kiwis - and so I took ostrich steaks out of the freezer and decided today would be an AU POIVRE fine day and with whatever I had on hand...
I first cut a piece for my dear dogs to share - one of my pups having been raised on a home cooked diet and his very first meal with me, (5 and 1/2 years ago actually), having been, "ostrich, peas and carrots, and brown rice," I did know that he would BARK at the meat (which he did) if not given his own little 'steak.'
I ground black pepper onto the meat - using an electric pepper mill set on the "2nd to most coarse" setting..
And amid ridiculous weather, I smoked these for 13 minutes, high heat, and with pistachio shells used instead of smoking chips...(little gas smoker)...
And I chopped up the green onion and kiwi that needed to be used...
And got balsamic & my Tunisian olive oil ready...(that stuff is "liquid gold" to me, I swear)...
And when the meat came in - smelling GORGEOUSLY if I may be so humble and say so - I let it rest...
And then sliced the most perfectly seared yet RARE luscious lean yet flavorful - peppercorn crusted and almost "pastrami" tasting meat; and drizzled the oil/vinegar mixture over everything and added pink Himalayan sea salt...
And weather aside, "Life was good again!" I am admittedly biased, as stated before, as I love ostrich. But this TRULY was the best meal I've had in ages!
Please make this new week so grand that even your NEIGHBORS do light a bonfire, dance the samba, and eat avocado off of...well, their porch?
OK OK, thanks for sharing in my dinner!!!!!!!!!
Cheers!!!!!!! - Leah
And here's to a wonderful new week!!!!!
It is, for the record, right now RAINING, SLEETING AND SNOWING, (is that even possible or is the blend a mere mirage), like crazy, on the Seacoast of New Hampshire.
BUT, "we bring our own sunshine," or in this case, "SMOKED OSTRICH STEAK AU POIVRE," and while I've been biased, partial, and in love with ostrich steak for some near two decades by now; I DO hope that somebody out there may just enjoy this a little bit too!
Thanks for sharing in my dinner!
Cheers! - Leah
I had a couple things to use up on this rainy day, without trekking out to the store - green onions, some mixed salad greens, two kiwis - and so I took ostrich steaks out of the freezer and decided today would be an AU POIVRE fine day and with whatever I had on hand...
I first cut a piece for my dear dogs to share - one of my pups having been raised on a home cooked diet and his very first meal with me, (5 and 1/2 years ago actually), having been, "ostrich, peas and carrots, and brown rice," I did know that he would BARK at the meat (which he did) if not given his own little 'steak.'
I ground black pepper onto the meat - using an electric pepper mill set on the "2nd to most coarse" setting..
And amid ridiculous weather, I smoked these for 13 minutes, high heat, and with pistachio shells used instead of smoking chips...(little gas smoker)...
And I chopped up the green onion and kiwi that needed to be used...
And got balsamic & my Tunisian olive oil ready...(that stuff is "liquid gold" to me, I swear)...
And when the meat came in - smelling GORGEOUSLY if I may be so humble and say so - I let it rest...
And then sliced the most perfectly seared yet RARE luscious lean yet flavorful - peppercorn crusted and almost "pastrami" tasting meat; and drizzled the oil/vinegar mixture over everything and added pink Himalayan sea salt...
And weather aside, "Life was good again!" I am admittedly biased, as stated before, as I love ostrich. But this TRULY was the best meal I've had in ages!
Please make this new week so grand that even your NEIGHBORS do light a bonfire, dance the samba, and eat avocado off of...well, their porch?
OK OK, thanks for sharing in my dinner!!!!!!!!!
Cheers!!!!!!! - Leah
