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Happy Easter Yesterday!
I was planning to post this recipe yesterday but our favorite neighbors invited us to join them for the Easter brunch (all day event, as a rule, especially with the weather like that), so my posting plans fell through.
Now here I am with the recipe/theory of how to cook a perfect poached egg.
Ilya and I are having steak tartare for dinner tonight. Along with some toasted bread, green salad and potato gratin.
If you're not familiar with this dish, steak tartare is a finely chopped raw beef fillet that is usually served with pickles, mustard and a raw egg yolk. My relationship with steak tartare has developed along the same lines as with oysters: from incomprehension to interest to passionate love. Though I never had that nose wrinkling abhorrence towards steak tartare, at first I simply skipped it in menus and went to safer items. But with times I came to a conclusion that sticking to safe and familiar food is not only boring, but limiting as well. If you don’t try new things, you rob yourself of new impressions, pleasant surprises, great finds. You stop growing.
Several years ago Ilya and I had a gas grill and an electric smoker and thought we enjoyed grilling and smoking very much. However, after we bought us a Green Egg, we finally understood what real grilling and smoking is all about. Even pizza in it cooks within 2 minutes and tastes like the one from a real wood oven.
Grilling season is coming soon (Hopefully - keep your fingers crossed!) and here’s one good recipe for you. If you are not big on lamb, take not too lean ground beef or poultry instead.
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