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A BBQ thread

I just put in two beef shanks in the oven. 25 year old enameled D oven. In a minute I have to add a bay leaf or two. So far, chopped onions, chopped celery, VERY thin sliced carrots. Chicken stock and a good bit of tomato paste. I have it barely covered w liquid. By the time we eat, I will add some new potatoes and more carrots. I will post a pic in a few hours. This is a pretty tough crowd reading this thread. I use white wine instead of red wine, when I do use wine. For me, white wine makes a much lighter dish. I cook it on fairly low heat. I browned it a bit on top of stove. I have gotten lazy in my old age. only brown one side, dump in veg and stock/tom paste. ///////

Very important to add. for some reason the super thin sliced carrots really add to the dish. I don't know how it helps, but it makes a world of difference in this dish.

And some pearl onions will add in a bit. I tried to find frozen but all I could get were fresh. Pain in the rear to get skin off, I think blanching is in order to remove skins...
 
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Neighbor let out her grandkids ffa projects to graze in my front yard. I had visions of the steaks in the last few posts.

It was particularly difficult to simply pass by as I carried my 6BR into the house after 1k range session this morning.

Now I really want steak
 

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I just put in two beef shanks in the oven. 25 year old enameled D oven. In a minute I have to add a bay leaf or two. So far, chopped onions, chopped celery, VERY thin sliced carrots. Chicken stock and a good bit of tomato paste. I have it barely covered w liquid. By the time we eat, I will add some new potatoes and more carrots. I will post a pic in a few hours. This is a pretty tough crowd reading this thread. I use white wine instead of red wine, when I do use wine. For me, white wine makes a much lighter dish. I cook it on fairly low heat. I browned it a bit on top of stove. I have gotten lazy in my old age. only brown one side, dump in veg and stock/tom paste. ///////

Very important to add. for some reason the super thin sliced carrots really add to the dish. I don't know how it helps, but it makes a world of difference in this dish.

And some pearl onions will add in a bit. I tried to find frozen but all I could get were fresh. Pain in the rear to get skin off, I think blanching is in order to remove skins...
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My oven has pretty bad heat settings. I meant to have this on about 250 or so. I added water and stock just now. after 2 hours it had gone pretty far. heat was probably above 300 or so which is too hot for my method. looks like it will turn out OK. About to add the pearl onions. Pearl onions worked great. I just boiled them a bit and rinsed them in cold water. Before blanching, you cut the root end off. Once I got them semi cool I squeezed the bulb out. got about 60% of the onion. would prefer 80%, but this will work. Lookin good. Cheers.
 
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