You can be the best chef with all the right skills and knowledge to cook red meat. However, if you don’t start with the right meat and you don’t know what to be mindful of when purchasing meat then it doesn’t matter how well you cook you will never get it right! Your ability to…

I am yet to meet anyone who would tell me they don’t like a good gravy, which is why I’ve decided to share my basic gravy recipe with you. Ingredients: Roasting tray After you have removed the roast you definitely do not want all the fat in the roasting tray, so you can throw away…

When it comes to cooking roast beef, in my opinion, you shouldn’t be using a “calculator” – there really isn’t a formula. Therefore, I wouldn’t put a definite time slot per weight per oven temp. Roasting Beef, as with all things cooking, come with experience – and plenty of it! As per my last blog,…

I remember growing up at a time when bones were everywhere! Cooking with and on the bone was the norm during the 70’s and 80’s. Now, it’s all about convenience. Mostly, our meat is presented to us boneless and conveniently packaged. There is a saying ‘the nearer the bone the sweeter the meat’. What this…

As with braising, roasting beef is a terrific and economical use of your time to feed a group of people in one setting. In a nutshell you put one large cut in the oven and when ready, carve it to feed your guests. Unlike braising, roasting is a dry heat cooking method – no liquid…

Do you ever find that when you salt your steak before cooking it the salt doesn’t really penetrate into the steak? When you actually eat your steak you can’t really taste the salt? To achieve more from your seasoning, salt the steak at least 3 hours or even the day before cooking it (whether pan…

Dry aged meat is terrific! The quality is fantastic! The meat is tender and delicious. Beef is more suitable than veal, lamb and pork because it is an older animal and has the fat content to withstand dry ageing process. Therefore it shouldn’t dry out during this process. Younger animals lack the fat content so…

Beef being the older animal is naturally more flavoursome and, in my opinion, there is more value in the cut. Not only is it cheaper per kg but it has a higher meat to bone ratio than its veal counterpart. BUT! This is what you have to weigh up the decision making against (whether to…

We rely on salt for flavour. It is a wonderful substance! When you salt your steak earlier enough, you are giving the salt time to actually go beyond the meat surface to reach deeper into the meat’s interior. I try to do this 3 hours to a day before I cook steaks. During this time…