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If You Want Your Steak To Be Amazing Then You Need To Make Sure You Do This One Thing First!

All The Information You Need To Know About The Crucial First Step When Cooking Steak

Many of us love steak every once in a while. It is just so juicy, looks fantastic and is just completely mouthwatering. When a steak is cooked to perfection, it a truly amazing meal that you just can’t get enough of!

However, sometimes when we cook our own steak at home it just doesn’t turn out the way we expected it to at all.

Before you resort to never enjoying a delicious steak in the comfort of your kitchen, we have the important step you may have been forgetting about all this time. Once you make sure to always follow this step, your steaks will turn out so amazing every single time!

The One Step To Always Make Sure You Do When Cooking Steak Is:

Take off the chill.

Many recipes suggest that taking your steak out of the fridge before cooking is all about bringing the steak to room temperature. Most steaks, especially a thick-cut rib-eye or porterhouse, would actually require hours out of the fridge to reach such internal temperatures.

Instead think of this step as taking the chill off your steak; even just 30 minutes makes the steak’s exterior warmer, but keeps the center chilly.

Any more than two hours out of the fridge and your steak will start to lose its chill in a bad way. Moisture can be drawn out, especially if you’ve salted in advance, which makes the steak harder to brown. A steak left at room temperature for longer will have a larger band of gray meat.

That’s it!

As you can see, all you have to do is allow your steak to chill outside of the fridge for about thirty minutes and no more than two hours. Then it will turn out great.

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These top-rated recipes show the best of comfort food from the South.

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If you happen to be Italian, look away right now. This wild west spaghetti will make you gasp in outrage.

Or, if you’re willing to try out new things, you might just like this adaptation of an Italian classic. The difference here is that this spaghetti has cheddar cheese, green onions and… bacon. Everyone loves bacon, right?

Its sauce is made with hearty beef stock, and it’s garnished with green onions. And it has bacon. Seriously… can you really say “no” to bacon?

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Wild West Spaghetti

Ingredients

• 1 pound dry spaghetti
• salt
• ½ lb bacon chopped
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 3 to 4 garlic cloves chopped
• ground black pepper
• 2 teaspoons hot sauce
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• ½ cup beef stock
• 1 16-ounce can tomato sauce
• 1 14-ounce can chopped or crushed fire roasted tomatoes
• 8 ounces sharp cheddar
• 4 green onions chopped

Instructions

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt generously. Add the pasta and cook until al dente, then drain.
2. Heat a deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon to a paper towel lined plate. Drain off the excess grease, leaving just enough to coat the bottom of the skillet.
3. Add the ground beef and cook until browned, breaking it apart as it cooks. Add in the onions and garlic and cook until they are softened, another couple minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in the hot sauce, Worcestershire and beef stock. Cook for another 3-4 minutes, scraping up any browned bits on the bottom of the skillet.
4. Stir in the tomato sauce and tomatoes and cook until completely heated through.
5. Add the cooked spaghetti to the sauce and stir to combine. Stir in half of the bacon. Taste and season with more salt and pepper, if needed.
6. Serve the pasta topped with the cheese and green onions. Sprinkle the remaining bacon to top of each serving.

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This ham recipe is a pretty special one. It’s a slow cooker recipe, which isn’t particularly special, but it does make it a lot easier.

No, what makes it special is that it uses Coca Cola in the recipe, and it’s amazing! It really gives it a distinct flavor to the ham, and it comes out so nice and moist.

There’s nothing worse than dry pork products. Ugh. Shake ‘n’ Bake is why I thought I hated pork for so long. So dry and yucky.

Luckily for everyone, this recipe is moist, flavorful, and absolutely wonderful!

4-Ingredient Slow Cooker Ham

Ingredients

1 5-8 lb cooked ham, bone in
½ cup brown sugar, packed
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 12 ounce can of Coca Cola or whichever Cola you prefer

Directions

Place the ham in the slow cooker.

In a small saucepan, combine ¼ cup of the brown sugar, cola, and mustard over high heat. Bring to a boil and make sure the sugar has dissolved. Pour the mixture over the ham. If your ham is pre-sliced make sure some of the glaze goes in between the slices.

Take the remaining ¼ cup of brown sugar and sprinkle over the top of the ham.

Cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 4-6 hours, basting with the cooking juices every few hours.

Remove ham from slow cooker and let cool a bit until it can be handled. Slice the ham and serve.

If not serving immediately, preheat the broiler and transfer the ham to a oven-safe baking dish. Brush with some of the leftover liquid and broil for about 5 minutes, glazing with additional liquid as preferred.

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Recipe based on one by Lezahjc
Photo by Papa D 1946-2012

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This Chocolate Ganache Tart is an extremely easy and very chocolaty tart. It’s like melted chocolate candy layered on top of a chocolate cookie.

This is an extremely easy recipe. In fact the only difficult thing is pressing the cookie layer in the tart pan. If you can call that difficult.

Satisfy your chocolate cravings with this delicious recipe.

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Chocolate Ganache Tart

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Setup Time

8 hrs

Total Time

40 mins

 

This Chocolate Ganache Tart is really easy to make and yet elegant enough for company!

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Chocolate Ganache Tart

Servings: 6

Calories: 435 kcal

Ingredients

For the Crust:

• 1-1/2 cups of Crushed Chocolate Graham Crackers
• 1/2 cup of Unsalted Butter softened at room temperature

For the Filling:

• 1 cup of Heavy Cream
• 1/4 cup of Unsalted Butter softened at room temperature
• 6 oz of Semisweet Chocolate Chips
• 6 oz of Milk Chocolate Chips
• Small Pinch of Salt

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9” tart pan with a removable bottom with some non-stick spray and set aside.
2. In a food processor, add the crushed cookies and butter, pulse until the mixture resembles the texture of wet sand and then press it evenly into your prepared tart pan.
3. Bake the crust for about 10 minutes, remove it from the oven and allow it to cool quite a bit. The crust will puff up as it bakes but as it cools, it will deflate.
4. Add the chocolate chips to a large bowl along with the pinch of salt and set aside.
5. In a small saucepan, add the butter and cream and heat together until the butter is fully melted and the mixture comes to a simmer. Pour mixture over the chocolate chips and allow it to sit for just a few minutes.
6. Whisk the chocolate chips and cream mixture together really well until you get a nice smooth ganache. Pour mixture into your prepared crust, pop it in the fridge and allow it to set for about 8 hours or overnight.
7. When ready to serve, top with some sliced strawberries that have been tossed with a little grand marnier!

Recipe By: Laura Vitale

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