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Today I was very busy, but in a food-prep kind of way, not a housekeeping kind of way.
I:
* went to Costco, and bought many things, including several large pieces of meat. Hence, I:
* broke down two chickens into meat parts, for-stock-making parts, and skin/fat. (The skin/fat will later be rendered into schmaltz, but I don't have enough for that yet. Ditto, not enough bones for stock just yet. Which is good, because I still have more than a gallon from last time.)
* trimmed and broke down a boneless whole ribeye roast into individual steaks. (Sixteen 'regular' steaks, two trimmed steaks where the fat on the far end came off, and a pound of scraps and trimmings for stew or stir-fry, for what would have been the price of five or six steaks pre-cut)
* trimmed and broke down a whole beef tenderloin into individual chateaubriand-type roasts (which I may cut even smaller into steaks later, but small roasts will do for now)
* rendered the fat scraps from the beef into cooking suet (or is it technically tallow if it's rendered?)
* made sourdough flatbread (which wasn't meant to be flatbread, but either my recipe was faulty or I goofed it hugely -- the dough was so wet it wouldn't hold any kind of shape, and I was too tired to face mixing in more flour and letting it rise again)
* (mostly) cleaned up the mess that these activities produced in the kitchen (except the dishes)
Oh, and I heated a take-and-bake pizza, because there was no way I was going to do that and cook a fresh lovely meal also. We'll have a fresh lovely meal tomorrow. Possibly ribeye steak. Or tenderloin.
Unless we have a hankering for pork, we are so not going to need to buy meat for another month. At least.
I'm exhausted (it's surprising how tiring it is to slice eighteen steaks out of a roast), but I feel pretty accomplished.
I:
* went to Costco, and bought many things, including several large pieces of meat. Hence, I:
* broke down two chickens into meat parts, for-stock-making parts, and skin/fat. (The skin/fat will later be rendered into schmaltz, but I don't have enough for that yet. Ditto, not enough bones for stock just yet. Which is good, because I still have more than a gallon from last time.)
* trimmed and broke down a boneless whole ribeye roast into individual steaks. (Sixteen 'regular' steaks, two trimmed steaks where the fat on the far end came off, and a pound of scraps and trimmings for stew or stir-fry, for what would have been the price of five or six steaks pre-cut)
* trimmed and broke down a whole beef tenderloin into individual chateaubriand-type roasts (which I may cut even smaller into steaks later, but small roasts will do for now)
* rendered the fat scraps from the beef into cooking suet (or is it technically tallow if it's rendered?)
* made sourdough flatbread (which wasn't meant to be flatbread, but either my recipe was faulty or I goofed it hugely -- the dough was so wet it wouldn't hold any kind of shape, and I was too tired to face mixing in more flour and letting it rise again)
* (mostly) cleaned up the mess that these activities produced in the kitchen (except the dishes)
Oh, and I heated a take-and-bake pizza, because there was no way I was going to do that and cook a fresh lovely meal also. We'll have a fresh lovely meal tomorrow. Possibly ribeye steak. Or tenderloin.
Unless we have a hankering for pork, we are so not going to need to buy meat for another month. At least.
I'm exhausted (it's surprising how tiring it is to slice eighteen steaks out of a roast), but I feel pretty accomplished.