We farm raise, butcher and cook our own beef, so we have proven recipes for each cut of meat. This is our recipe for tender cross rib steak, a delicious and less expensive cut if bought in a store. We cut our beef extra thick, one inch. A six ounce steak per person. Cooked till tender in a Dutch oven with lid, with the juices of potatoes, carrots, and celery vegetables braising the meat. The meat juices make a tasty gravy.

Our butcher carries this wagyu sirloin steak cut for $8 a pound. Wagyu beef is marbled throughout and super tender. You might like it as well as a more expensive New York Steak if reverse grilled as below. Picanha is the top cap of the sirloin, enough for four thick juicy steaks.

We like our beef steaks thick, cut one inch thick. Here is how we grill steaks over charcoal on the barbecue and serve it tender.It is called reverse grilling: you finish the internal meat to the level of doneness first on a low temperature, away from the hot coals, test if it is rare, medium-rare, medium, medium well or well done, and then sear the meat over high heat over the coals, one minute per side.You can use an internal digital thermometer, or Emma-Jane’s cookpad finger method. I tried both methods side by side on steaks and I feel confident her method is as accurate as digital thermometers, better than time based methods.

Here is a way to get that roasted succulence and exceptional flavor of prime rib with one steak only.This recipe is called reverse sear, brings out that roast flavor in one small individual medium rare steak perfectly, as long as the steak is at least one inch thick.

If you ask your butcher to leave the whole rib attached to a T Bone steak, and cut it 2” thick, you end up with what is called a Tomahawk steak. The meat alone weights 2 pounds, enough for four people. If you have an air fryer oven, the rib bone is sawed off on request by the butcher so the steak will fit.With the rib attached, this steak can be 20” long, it fits on my big charcoal grill. Medium rare in 20 minutes. Right over the hot mesquite charcoals. Same time it takes to grill soaked corn on the cob. Our local butcher sells Tomahawk steaks during the Holidays, and our National Holiday, Fourth of July, is this week.You can make my stuffed baking potato recipe in the airfryer or oven and cook soaked corn in the husk on the barbecue while finishing the steak, and make the salad, so all dinner items are ready at the same time, under an hour. I freeze fresh strawberries and puree them in the food processor with whipped cream, 1 hour, or greek yoghurt, 5 hours for ice cream dessert. With a few drops of home made strawberry liqueur, see recipe.Here is our Fourth of July Holiday dinner.

Its not from Philadelphia, it looks like it, but with a California twist! Home baked sour dough roll, home made garlic mayo with truffle shavings, gouda cheese, fresh shitake mushroom, onion, green pepper, and most importantly, grass fed carpaccio thin sliced fresh beef.

Instead of serving guests the delicate appetizer of raw steak tartare on toast, I chop the fresh meat, add herbs and spices, and stuff inside fresh swiss chard leaves, makes the beef taste even more tender, like eating the center of a thick fillet mignon steak.

I have added some recent refinements from The New York Times Cooking section to my peppersteak recipe, namely different ways to crush whole peppercorns and a better way to thicken the sauce.Our peppersteaks are normally charcoal grilled, but this recipe is for pan searing and reverse baking in the oven, and then flambéing, lighting alcohol in the skillet. Served with avocado shrimp appetizer, stuffed potato skins and California Cabernet Sauvignon wine.

This is my version of Asian Sirloin Steak Pepper Beef, one of the popular dishes of the biggest buffet in Las Vegas at Ceasars Palace.

We forage for california oyster mushrooms six weeks after the first fall rains. It rained last week, oyster mushrooms will be ready mid december. Here are the recipes made with store bought oyster mushrooms, with french fries and steamed carrots and a poutine mushroom gravy sauce. I also made a pan fried steak pork version.#GoldenApron23

Achiote paste is a popular red condiment made from annetto seeds, cornmeal, vinegar and spices. It tastes like saffron. When used as a marinade with orange juice, lemon slices and tequila, it brings a delicious tangy flavor to pork steaks.Serve on tortilla with fresh tomato and onion slices, and a fruit salad sprinkled with lemon juice.

Soy sauce, sugar, onion and garlic in a roasting bag for both marinade and roast! Cookpad Auntie Eiko posted this, it is brilliant to marinade and roast in the same bag. Most tender pork steak ever!I tried it a few times and tweaked her recipe by adding a lemon and a mild red onion for the marinade to make a sweet and sour gravy to my liking. Thank you Eiko.The roasting bag is expensive and does not survive the oven for reuse, so I tried a ceramic roasting dish with heavy glass lid for both marinade and roast. Success!