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Hungarian Braised Short Ribs
Many of us probably think of "goulash" as a dinner from our childhood. It's typically elbow macaroni mixed with ground beef and some form of tomato sauce. Well, as fond as I was of my mother's goulash, it is far from the traditional Hungarian dish. True goulash is essentially a thick stew made by braising meat (usually beef) with onions, paprika and water. This is the inspiration for this dish, thus the "Hungarian" in the name.
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Incredible Steak
Today I was on a monster steak mission, and I scored two huge top sirloins. These bad boys were about ten inches across and just shy of 1 1/2 inches thick. We're talkin' steaks that would almost make a cowboy …
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Italian Beef
This past weekend I finally got around to making Italian beef on the grill. It's something that I've long thought about trying, but never seemed to get to. Italian beef is an institution in the Chicago area. Here is how it's described at Wikipedia : An Italian beef is a sandwich of thin slices of seasoned roast beef, dripping with meat juices, on a dense, long Italian-style roll, believed to have originated in Chicago, where its history dates back at least to the 1930s.
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