| Beef is one of the most popular foods in the world. | | | | around with this and add whatever you want. You |
| And unfortunately for most of the general public, it's | | | | don't have to buy a thick porter, but I think it goes |
| probably one of the most expensive. A great way to | | | | well with this recipe. Whatever you decide to use, I |
| enjoy beef for a great price is to buy it in bulk. But | | | | don't think a light beer would be very good with this. |
| not many families know what to do with a | | | | The first thing we want to do is season the meat |
| quarter-side of beef. 40 pounds of hamburger just | | | | with salt and pepper. Heat up your grill to medium, oil |
| takes up way too much room. This is why I love to | | | | the racks and throw the meat on once it's |
| only buy what's on sale. Whatever the cut of beef, | | | | preheated. We want to let this go for about 10 |
| with a little love, you can make it taste like a million | | | | minutes on each side, just to get nice and brown. |
| bucks. Chuck is often on sale at most mega-marts. | | | | While it's cooking, we can start cutting up the onion, |
| The blade portion is my favorite. I know it best as | | | | crush and peel the entire bulb of garlic, and put them |
| the 7-bone roast. I fix this cut a variety of ways, | | | | into the foil pan with about 2 bottles of the beer. |
| each of them on my gas grill. | | | | Take your roasting pan out and place it on the grill. |
| The grill does a lot for beef. The constant | | | | When the beef's down browning, place it in the liquid |
| temperature and open flame really play well with this | | | | mixture. |
| dense meat. And for a cut like the 7-bone, it's hard | | | | Top it off with some steak sauce and close the grill |
| to dry out due to its high fat content. That's a great | | | | lid. Let it cook for about 20 minutes on the current |
| thing for beef lovers. It means you can let this cook | | | | temperature. This is just so the liquid comes up to |
| for a while, mingling with other flavors, but still not | | | | temperature, then you can turn the heat down to |
| dry out. | | | | medium-low. We'll want to check the meat from time |
| 7-Bone Porter Roast | | | | to time. If it looks like the liquid is getting low (could |
| Though I cook this roast with two separate | | | | be due to evaporation or boiling over), just add |
| methods, it's still simple to prepare. All we need from | | | | another splash of beer. All in all, we're looking for |
| the store is a good sized roast; I'd say about 4 | | | | around 2 hours of cooking time in the foil pan. When |
| pounds, an onion, bulb of garlic, some Guinness beer | | | | the beef comes off, it will be tender, juicy and falling |
| (that's the porter), some steak sauce, a foil roasting | | | | off the bone. The porter and steak sauce are a |
| tray and simple seasonings if you don't already have | | | | great compliment for one another. |
| them. Salt and pepper, things like that. You can toy | | | | |
