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A beautifully cut NY strip, seasoned with garlic salt and cracked pepper. Seared on high heat so the outside is crisp and the inside is warm and pink, served medium rare with a side of creamy horseradish sauce, a heaping pile of garlic mashed potatoes, a Captain and Coke the size of my head, and a loaf of soft, warm garlic bread.

Yeah, that would be nice.

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  • the Ruth's Chris memories...
    • No way, steak houses can't compete with home grilled/home prepared food.

      Ruth's is OK. Not great, but ok. At least it's been that way the 5 or so times I've eaten there.

      They do make really good garlic mashed though.

      I don't go out to eat a steak. Steaks get cooked at home. :)
      • It's really really hard to find prime quality beef in stores/butchers though! Do you get your steaks from the grocery store? It's just not good. The restaurants around here get all the best meats.

        I LOVE cooking on the grill though and it's DAMN good, but if the restaurant makes it well, the beef is almost always a higher quality in the restaurants. Just need to find a good place to buy good meat.
        • Ever hear of the show Good Eats?

          Guess where Alton gets all his meats...not too far from where I live.

          Also, there's a small market/butcher joint a few miles from my house. If you seem knowledgeable at all about meats, you get the better cuts.

          Back to your post:

          Dude, you live in Chicago. Home of the Schwarky brothers, Hurricane Ditka, and several hundred gabagillion butchers. Are you kidding me?

          Google local dude. There's 5 pages of butchers in Chicago. No excuse for not cooking your own meat. So muc
          • Alright, alright. Sheesh! :)

            I've been to butchers in the area and I've not been satisfied at all. I don't mind certain restaurants around here because they often have that Chicago flavor to them. Kind of fun.

            I like your views too though.

            Furthermore, I have to have a house so I can actually grill my own stuff instead of going over to friends' houses. :)
            • Seriously dude, I thought Chi-town was the armpit^Wslaughterhouse of America. And you can't find good beef?

              Of course, I've had one or two denizens of FL tell me that the best oranges and juice get loaded onto trucks for people out of state.

              • And you can't find good beef?
                EXACTLY. Of course, now that I've received a CHAAALLLLLLEEEENNNNNGE, I will find a good butcher.

                That statement about FL is very true. I've had friends living down there who say that orange juice SUCKS except at certain restaurants.

                We're no longer the slaughterhouse of America anyway IIRC. That was in the early 1900's when dysentary ruled the day and Upton Sinclair set up us the bomb.
          • He's right in general. Resturants often get betters cuts of meat. Something we can do to, if you have a relationship with your butcher. Now, that being sait.. Ruth Crisps is about as good as a donkey sex show in Tijuana...

            Have you tried dry aging your beef before you make steaks? My buther has been giving me a filet with the bone on still, that i've been dry again before I grill.

            And horseradish sauce? No no. Garlic butter. Real homemade garlic butter on top.

            oh and let your steak rest, but i'm guessing y
            • Not a fan of the garlic butter on my steaks.

              I've had it a few times and it's good, but I love the tang/heat of good horsey sauce.

              I have not dry aged my beef, I need to look into doing this.

              Got any recommendations?

              About 4 years ago, I watched a cooking show where the host went off on people not letting their meat rest after cooking. I've done it ever since. It makes a huge, HUGE difference. Best grilling advice I've ever received.
          • Guess where Alton gets all his meats...not too far from where I live.

            Bastard.

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        • It's really really hard to find prime quality beef in stores/butchers though! Do you get your steaks from the grocery store? It's just not good.

          Prime beef may well be hard to come by outside a restaurant unless you know somebody in that business. Grocery stores long ago went to that "select" stuff that's mediocre (they all sold choice back in the day), but the warehouse stores (Costco, Sam's Club, etc.) usually carry choice beef. It's better than what the grocery stores sell, and they usually sell i

      • If I'm getting good meat, I don't like to ruin it by overcooking. That medium rare thing might as well be well done. When a server asks me how I'd like my steak, I usually say something wiseass like "Pissed Off!" or "Just waive it once over the grill."

        I'm not sure if it is my technique, but I never seem to get a good "Black & Blue" steak at home. That is the attraction of a first class steak house for me.

        • "Show it a picture of a match."

          Kinda like Churchill's advice on the perfect martini.

          I'll go rare at home, but nothing less than medium rare when I go out.

  • Ruth? (Score:2)

    by ellem ( 147712 ) *
    Kean's SteakHouse bay bay!

    • Ummmm, no. Chicago Chop House [chicagochophouse.com]. It trumps them all.

      Replace Captain and Coke with a nice Chianti or Merlot and I'm all with all y'all. (As long as it's the chop house!) ;)
      • OH YOU ARE SO GHEY (not to be confused with Gay)

        Get a beer you home alone.
        • I am not you buttfucking quitter!

          Beer with a steak is NOT a good idea. Nope. Uh-uh. Not gonna happen. First of all, the carbonation alone is enough reason to avoid it for digestive purposes. Secondly, it's like certain wines were MADE to interact with that steak and bring you closest to an orgasm without actually thinking of Winona Ryder.

          No, dear sir, I contend that, indeed, that YOU are ghey. Truly.

          And, you're a buttfucking quitter.
          • really I'm more of a cocksucker.
          • Beer with a steak is NOT a good idea.

            Are you insane? For those of us in crappy apartments with electric stoves and no access to a grill, beer grilled steak is the best option we got. The worse the beer, the better the steak.

            Sear in a nice heavy pan (cast iron preferred) with any spice rubs you may like (I like a big of crushed black pepper, some chopped garlic, dash of Worchestershire sauce). Then pour enough bad beer (crap like Beast or Nattie Ice works best) to cover the bottom of the steak about 1/

  • Ah (Score:2)

    by blinder ( 153117 ) *
    rice noodles with mushrooms, broccoli and cabbage prepared with sesame and lemmon grass oil, and fresh ginger.

    yep, had that saturday. oh my... we are talking amazingly good. no left overs... not even a little :)
  • The mere description caused me to gain five pounds and ten points of bad cholesterol.

    Even worse, my upcoming lunch seems so terribly inadequate now...

    My only solace is to picture you drowning in your oversized Captain and Coke glass.
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