When carmelized, the licorice flavor of fennel gives salads a special taste, kids love it. This dressing might make them eat all their salads. Fennel is a summer vegetable, a big bottle of dressing serves all year till next harvest.

We use frozen or fresh cilantro and fresh flat italian parsley to make this Argentinian steak sauce. The recipe is our own variation, using home grown dried thai red peppers, garlic, cilantro, shallots and lemons.Fresh for two weeks in the fridge. The sauce needs a few days rest in the fridge for flavors to mingle.

When making a cup of butter, you end up with 2/3 cup of fresh buttermilk, perfect to cook with or make fresh Ranch Salad Dressing. Here is the recipe.

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.

This is a special three course dinner, but smokey to make, so, I use my outdoor barbecue or open the kitchen door and windows. Steak Juice Seared asparagus is the first course, basted steak is served with biryani rice as the second course, pureed asparagus hollandaise soup is served chinese style as third course. Dessert is fresh strawberry ice cream.Pairs well with a bottle of California Zinfandel Wine.#GlobalApron

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.

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.

Apricots and fresh pine apple chunks are a match made in heaven. They make an amazing salad with avocados and tomatoes and mild spicy tuna steak. No fishy flavor because the fruits and vegetables give this salad a tropical taste. Delicious with warm or cold tuna steak.#GlobalApron

Traditional chinese cooking colors are these five: red for good fortune, yellow for nourishment, green for growth, black for tranquility, and white for purity. Red, green and yellow are also major colors in the rainbow.The five major flavors are spicy, salty, sweet, sour and a hint of bitter like in garlic or turmeric. This dish combines all of the above colors and flavors.For the red, we Stirfry the flank steak under two minutes, cut thin in strips across the grain, in red pepper sauce. Juicy and tender! Served with spicy red beets sauteed in pepper sauce and steak drippings.For the green, our lil farm produces fresh green peas and green onion stalks. Doused in sweet rice wine.The spicy red flank steak, salty yellow peanut fried rice, sweet green peas, slightly bitter garlic black beans, and white sour onion rings are then laid out as a rainbow. Enjoy the mixture of flavors and colors!#CA2025#eattherainbow

Thin steaks are usually cut from cheaper tougher beef like flank steak, skirt steak, or chuck. They are 1/2” thick, 4” long and 6” wide.Dry aged steaks are usually 1” thick, expensive and cut from the most tender beef, like prime rib. Dry aging takes time, but makes for superb steaks.With this dry aging marinade recipe, You can dry age tough chuck meat and make it tender like dry aged prime rib in your own refrigerator in five days.A similar marinade can also tenderize steaks in one day if combined with very high heat searing, called “ velveting”Beef looses up to 30% of its weight by dry ageing, which makes the flavors concentrate. Oxidation of the fat on the outside also makes the flavor of the beef more intense. And the enzymes in beef tenderize the tough fibers when aged.#GlobalApron

Classic Traditional Grilled corn on the cob, cucumber salad, flag pie with blueberries and raspberries and whipped cream, stuffed baking potatoes, and New York steaks.Serve with fresh homemade young rhubarb wine.#July2026#BBQbites

Two Salad dressings made from fresh young cucumber, one creamy with fresh mayonnaise, one tangy with fresh greek yoghurt. These are quick and refreshing in summer. And easy to make.#GlobalCookpadGames2024