Pan fry your steaks and serve them with an earthy mushroom sauce brightened by shallots and dijon mustard

steak with mushroom cream sauce

Beef, mushrooms, white wine, cream and a bit of dijon mustard.  Steak with mushroom cream sauce is a classic restaurant dish. Shallots lend a hint of sweetness countered by the bite of dijon. Nicely balanced against the earthiness of the mushrooms and steak.

Pan fried steak with a dijon white wine mustard sauce is quick to make but big on flavour. A bit more work than grilled but absolutely delicious.

pan fried steak with dijon white wine sauce

 

While a grilled steak can be pretty good I’m not happy unless there’s a sauce. For me, a pan fried steak is where it’s at. A splash of wine, a bit of stock – in this case veal stock – and a couple of flavour highlights and you move into serious territory.

The French have mastered at least 100 different pan fried steak dishes – and yet there’s no grilled steak recipes in the Cordon Bleu at Home…

montreal smoked meat sandwich

montreal smoked meat

Montreal smoked meat is Canada’s answer to the pastrami sandwich. It’s a seriously great sandwich.

Texas knows beef. Texas knows barbecue. Making BBQ beef short ribs is an outstanding way to use a cut classically reserved for braising.

texas bbq beef short ribs

Texas knows beef. Texas knows barbecue. Shouldn’t be a big surprise to anyone that Texans make awesome barbecue beef. Making BBQ beef short ribs is an outstanding way to use a cut classically reserved for braising.

Reverse sear steaks turn out perfect every time!

reverse sear steaks

Have you heard about reverse sear steaks? Ever wonder how they get steaks perfectly evenly cooked in restaurants? How it’s pink from edge to edge?

Hot and fast BBQ brisket is cooked at 300F for about 6-8 hours. This recipe works with the flat and delivers a juicy brisket if done right.

bbq brisket done hot and fast

If anyone is maintaining a list of phrases that just don’t make sense please add “hot and fast BBQ brisket”. That just goes against everything anyone ever suggested. In this context though hot means 300F and fast means around 7 or 8 hours so it’s not as crazy as you might think.