Back in November I placed an order for shortloin roasts from CPB. They come two roasts to an order and average weight per order is about 50 pounds. Took the largest of the two and cut a special roast for a special person to serve for a special occasion. Sadly that special person left this world before the occasion came to fruition. The roast has been vac sealed and in the freezer for months. Every time I open the door I wonder what the heck I'm gonna do with that thing. Finally decided to defrost it in the fridge for a few days and cut it into porterhouse steaks. I got 5 beautiful steaks and 2 packages of cubed meat from the end which was all weirdly shaped. Four of the steaks were vac sealed and put back in the freezer. The last one I kept out for dinner.
Planned to do the steak, a nice salad, and loaded baked potatoes. Steak was going to be done on the Rec Tec with low temp / extreme smoke to about 120, removed to cool, then seared at high temp. When doing whole taters I just rinse them, poke a few holes, and into the microwave for a few minutes. I've never gotten any additional flavor by smoking them or cooking on the grill so the microwave is quick and easy. Dinner is planned. Fast forward later in the afternoon and time to get dinner rolling. Needed to shred some fresh cheddar cheese for the loaded taters so got the Ninja food processor out and did about 2 pounds. As I started washing the components of the food processor, the entire world went south in a galactic basket in the span of about 10 seconds...literally. BOOM!! Power goes out. Smoke detectors start chirping due to lack of power and the dog freaks out. She hates those things and runs to me for support. I got blindsided by a panicked fat dog and sliced my finger open on the Ninja shredding disk. Tracy starts hollering from the pool for me to please bring her another beer. My hearing aid batteries die at this point. So here I am...bleeding like a stuck pig, tending to a berserk dog, deaf as a fence post, and a thirsty wife in the pool wanting a beer. Are we having fun yet? Wrap the finger in a paper towel and manage to get to the bathroom with the dog between my feet and put on a couple big band aids to staunch the flow of blood. Out to the garage to change hearing aid batteries with dog still on my heels. Stop on the way back through and grab Tracy a beer, which got delivered to her in the pool. Back in the house and my phone is blowing up with alerts from the electric company hoping to have power back on in about 3 hours. Now it hits me: my entire dinner plans are down the tubes. Rec Tec won't run without electricity nor will the microwave. Time to drop back 10 and punt. At this point I don't have an hour to cook the taters whole on the grill so cut them into what basically equated to home fries, seasoned, into a grilling wok, and on the grill. OK, there is the history of my Saturday afternoon. Now onto the meal.
The roast before slicing it into steaks. Just over 13 1/2 pounds
The steak I kept out for dinner. Right at 2 pounds. Beautiful chunk of filet for Tracy!!
The salad. Mostly multi colored tomatoes with some celery, onions, olives, Parmesan cheese, and tossed with garlic EVOO and red wine vinegar. Sorry for the dark pic. No lights in the house.
Steak seasoned: Worcestershire sauce, kosher salt, and CBP
Taters on the grill
Steak on the grill over the sear burner when the taters are almost done
A few minutes then flip
Done and into the house to rest for a few minutes. Another dark pic
Cut the strip side off the bone and plate with the salad and taters. That chunk of meat is over a pound.
Not too bad for having to improvise
Close up. A little over done on the outer edges but not a travesty.
Well, this one did not turn out quite like I'd hoped but it was still a very good meal. Even the medium parts of the steak were super tender and flavorful. Taters were very good but slightly over salted. Salad was fantastic and so refreshing!! Oh well, this was quite an adventure but luckily I had the tools to put together a back-up plan, albeit shooting from the hip. Apologies for another steak thread but with the limited proteins I can cook for Tracy, beef is our predominant dinner component. Being that I love a good steak though, I really don't have a problem with it
Gonna call this one done. Thanks to all who braved the lengthy dialog if you managed to make it all the way to the end. Hope everybody is having a great Sunday and all you fathers out there are getting waited on hand and foot
Robert
Planned to do the steak, a nice salad, and loaded baked potatoes. Steak was going to be done on the Rec Tec with low temp / extreme smoke to about 120, removed to cool, then seared at high temp. When doing whole taters I just rinse them, poke a few holes, and into the microwave for a few minutes. I've never gotten any additional flavor by smoking them or cooking on the grill so the microwave is quick and easy. Dinner is planned. Fast forward later in the afternoon and time to get dinner rolling. Needed to shred some fresh cheddar cheese for the loaded taters so got the Ninja food processor out and did about 2 pounds. As I started washing the components of the food processor, the entire world went south in a galactic basket in the span of about 10 seconds...literally. BOOM!! Power goes out. Smoke detectors start chirping due to lack of power and the dog freaks out. She hates those things and runs to me for support. I got blindsided by a panicked fat dog and sliced my finger open on the Ninja shredding disk. Tracy starts hollering from the pool for me to please bring her another beer. My hearing aid batteries die at this point. So here I am...bleeding like a stuck pig, tending to a berserk dog, deaf as a fence post, and a thirsty wife in the pool wanting a beer. Are we having fun yet? Wrap the finger in a paper towel and manage to get to the bathroom with the dog between my feet and put on a couple big band aids to staunch the flow of blood. Out to the garage to change hearing aid batteries with dog still on my heels. Stop on the way back through and grab Tracy a beer, which got delivered to her in the pool. Back in the house and my phone is blowing up with alerts from the electric company hoping to have power back on in about 3 hours. Now it hits me: my entire dinner plans are down the tubes. Rec Tec won't run without electricity nor will the microwave. Time to drop back 10 and punt. At this point I don't have an hour to cook the taters whole on the grill so cut them into what basically equated to home fries, seasoned, into a grilling wok, and on the grill. OK, there is the history of my Saturday afternoon. Now onto the meal.
The roast before slicing it into steaks. Just over 13 1/2 pounds
The steak I kept out for dinner. Right at 2 pounds. Beautiful chunk of filet for Tracy!!
The salad. Mostly multi colored tomatoes with some celery, onions, olives, Parmesan cheese, and tossed with garlic EVOO and red wine vinegar. Sorry for the dark pic. No lights in the house.
Steak seasoned: Worcestershire sauce, kosher salt, and CBP
Taters on the grill
Steak on the grill over the sear burner when the taters are almost done
A few minutes then flip
Done and into the house to rest for a few minutes. Another dark pic
Cut the strip side off the bone and plate with the salad and taters. That chunk of meat is over a pound.
Not too bad for having to improvise
Close up. A little over done on the outer edges but not a travesty.
Well, this one did not turn out quite like I'd hoped but it was still a very good meal. Even the medium parts of the steak were super tender and flavorful. Taters were very good but slightly over salted. Salad was fantastic and so refreshing!! Oh well, this was quite an adventure but luckily I had the tools to put together a back-up plan, albeit shooting from the hip. Apologies for another steak thread but with the limited proteins I can cook for Tracy, beef is our predominant dinner component. Being that I love a good steak though, I really don't have a problem with it
Gonna call this one done. Thanks to all who braved the lengthy dialog if you managed to make it all the way to the end. Hope everybody is having a great Sunday and all you fathers out there are getting waited on hand and foot
Robert
awesome meal for a punt, looks amazing! Those Ninjas can be tricky, I’ve almost lost a toe or two when I haven’t paid attention while cleaning
