Braising
Mexican or Tex-Mex
Techniques
This is a classic dish you eat in West Texas. This is the style beef you get in a Josie’s beef burrito. After moving, this is one of the things I really missed. It made me go to all sorts of Mexican and Latin restaurants looking for something similar. This is influential enough I made […]
Braising
Techniques
Braising is a great technique to cook the bigger tougher cuts of meat. It is also great for bone in chicken. Slow cooking in a limited amount of liquid breaks down connective tissue, makes meat tender and juicy, renders fat, while creating a sauce at the same time. Braising is a simple multistep process. Brown […]
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Beef
Braising
Cold January weekends screams beef stew to me. I settled down on a Saturday and whipped up a classic French beef stew: Boeuf Bourguignon. The key ingredients in this recipe are about 4 pounds of stew meat( I prefer chuck for the fat content and the tenderness it brings with less time in the oven), […]