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Post by Tigertecz on Jan 10, 2011 9:42:51 GMT -5
Awesome. I actually made Italian style beef and lamb stew for dinner last night. Leftovers for dinner tonight = ftmfw! Lamb is expensive around here, so I never eat lamb. Depends what cuts you get. If you're going to slow cook it in a stew for example, you're not going to be using expensive cuts like leg. Although not sure what the price is over there, but here you can get a whole lamb shoulder for about £6-7 (about $10) which lasts us at least two meals anyway. Otherwise, there are still cheap cuts like saddle that are real nice too. Beef-wise I like to use cuts like shin and oxtail in stews, which both are $4.90 (about $7-8) per kg at my local supermarket. Stews tend to be the cheaper meals we eat as you use lots of cheaper cuts and vegetables, and you make a big batch that lasts ages. |
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Post by donatello2424 on Jan 10, 2011 10:23:59 GMT -5
I would have to go to somewhere like whole foods if I wanted to get other pieces of lamb. The local supermarkets only really have leg and chops.
Beef wise for stew I really use whatever is on sale. Chuck, round, it really doesn't matter. Since I am cooking it low and slow it is gonna be tender no matter what cut. I used to love to braise short ribs and then crisp them up under the broiler, but the price for short ribs is crazy now.
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Post by Tigertecz on Jan 10, 2011 10:49:12 GMT -5
Yeah sounds good. Is Whole Foods that organic place? I seem to remember it being in New York on the South Western corner of Central Park on 59th St if I'm not mistaken?
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Post by donatello2424 on Jan 10, 2011 10:53:14 GMT -5
Yeah sounds good. Is Whole Foods that organic place? I seem to remember it being in New York on the South Western corner of Central Park on 59th St if I'm not mistaken? No idea. Whole foods has some organic stuff. That is where they shop on "Top Chef". It is just a better supermarket. Better meat, better seafood, better produce...but with that comes the higher prices. I remember seeing some dry-aged ribeye there for like $24 a pound. I can buy a whole ribeye at Kroger for $4.99 a pound this week and age it myself. For the stew I had last night I bought the generic "Stew Meat". No idea what it was but it became tender and good. |
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Post by Tigertecz on Jan 10, 2011 10:54:01 GMT -5
Hmm... think it's the same place I'm thinking of. We have one here in London too in Piccadilly Circus I believe.
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Post by donatello2424 on Jan 10, 2011 10:54:22 GMT -5
Yeah I just checked google maps, it is the same place.
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Post by Tigertecz on Jan 10, 2011 10:56:42 GMT -5
Yeah we stayed on West 57th when we were in NYC so it was like our nearest supermarket type place. It was pretty expensive but everything was laid out nicely and stuff. Was decent. Didn't realise that we had the same chain of shop over here too. There aren't many around though.
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Post by donatello2424 on Jan 10, 2011 11:01:54 GMT -5
Yeah it is nice in there. They have a huge selection of stuff, but the price is what gets me. If I had alot more money I would shop there, but I can get good quality produce and meat at the local chain supermarket a lot cheaper...or go to Sams or Costco and buy in bulk, or go to one of the Asian supermarkets and buy stuff really cheap.
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Post by Tigertecz on Jan 10, 2011 11:27:52 GMT -5
Yeah yeah yeah of course. I was a tourist in NYC though so don't know the local places to buy that kinda shit. Plus, I wasn't cooking of course. Just popped in there every now and then to get like drink, snacks or some cold meets and cheese for light meals or something like that.
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Post by aar on Jan 10, 2011 11:35:11 GMT -5
Bout to eat lunch
Beef Udon soup, an apple, two clementines, a vanilla yogurt
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Post by Tigertecz on Jan 10, 2011 11:40:41 GMT -5
Oooooh beef udon sounds nice. I had pho for lunch today - which is like the Vietnamese equivalent.
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Post by donatello2424 on Jan 10, 2011 17:30:36 GMT -5
Never had beef udoh. Supposedly there is a great pho place around here. Never been to it.
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Post by Tigertecz on Jan 10, 2011 18:08:54 GMT -5
If you like noodle soups, they don't come much better than pho imo. Hot, sour, spicy... packed full of flavour. Healthy as fuck too.
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Post by donatello2424 on Jan 10, 2011 18:15:24 GMT -5
Yeah I want to try it sometime.
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Post by Spencer on Jan 10, 2011 18:18:44 GMT -5
Turkey burger with cheddar cheese and roasted red bell pepper!
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