Word: stews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little extra chewing. The porterhouse and sirloin steaks pan-grilled in an iron skillet would have done credit to any first-class steak house. A rib roast was succulent and tender, but ground sirloin and chuck were too lean to make properly moist hamburgers. Pot roast and stew cuts, though acceptable, cooked so quickly that they did not absorb the flavors of seasonings, one of the advantages of the usually fatty, long-cooking cuts. As with all lean beefs, cooking is accomplished more rapidly because there is less fat to be cooked along with the meat; lower temperatures...
...juicier and more tender than the Chenango meat, which comes from cattle that graze on grass and are given spring water and supplements of mineral blocks and hay. A small roast purchased from Healey's was slightly dry, even though it was cooked at 300 degrees F, as suggested; stew meat needed much more seasoning than conventional beef would have. Chenango beefalo was a shade less satisfactory in all categories. Beefalo prices match those of prime beef...
Rowning got into a bit of a stew in the top of the first, yielding a one-out single and walk, but worked out of trouble by retiring clean-up batter Lori Bench on a pop-up and getting Montouri on an inning-ending fly ball...
...intriguing new book, Good to Eat (Simon & Schuster; $17.95). Citing economic, ecological and health considerations as forerunners of religious, folkloric and even social eating customs, Harris writes, "When India's Hindus spurn beef, Jews and Moslems abominate pork, and Americans barely avoid retching at the thought of dog stew . . . something beyond mere digestive physiology is shaping the definition of what's good...
...invention' in the nouvelle cuisine can be found in some form in old cookbooks. And I know one thing. No matter what they say about wanting light food and liking new dishes, guests love the old tastes. When I make a blanquette, or marinated venison or any kind of stew, guests grab my hand in the dining room and practically get tears in their eyes. 'That was real food,' they...