Friday Night Flank


 
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Toby Keil

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Came home from work last night and my wife had a flank steak marinating in a little olive oil, cilantro, lime juice, etc, so I sparked up the old grill, threw on some corn and cooked away. She also made a really good lemon dill salad dressing my mom used to make. Here are some pics and let me know if the link doesn't work, for some reason my password at photobucket isn't working. <A HREF="http://community.webshots.com/album/563718276djyTer" TARGET=_blank>http://community.webshots.com/a
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Oops meant for this to go in the grilling section, sorry Chris
 
Looks great! In my opinion flank steak is one of the most underrated cuts of meat around. I usually do my chimichurri style and when I serve it to guest they've either never heard of it or have always passed on it when they've seen it at the meat counter because they thought it would be tough.

Great job and thanks for the pictures, reminds me I need to do some soon.
 
Toby, That looks fantastic. I'm a huge flank steak fan. Mr Kruger said to me one time if you like flank steak try a skirt steak sometime. Well not sure if you ever had skirt steak but's it's pretty darn good. Has more marbling in it than flank, try it some time if you already haven't. I love em both, skirt a little more, but flank is easier for me to find here. Man I'm so hungry after looking at those pics. Great job.
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Also a huge fan of flank, and cook then regularly, odd that I had never cooked one until about 4 years ago..been cooking them ever since!
 
We love flank steak, usually with an asian marinade but am always looking for other ideas. Larry, can you elaborate on your chimichurri style?

Bob
 
Want to try a skirt steak soon. The times I have seen it the cuts are thin though as though they are to be used for fajitas. How thick are the skirt steaks you are grilling Bryan?

Flank I can find a little more readily, so may give that a try first.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bryan S:
Toby, That looks fantastic. I'm a huge flank steak fan. Mr Kruger said to me one time if you like flank steak try a skirt steak sometime. Well not sure if you ever had skirt steak but's it's pretty darn good. Has more marbling in it than flank, try it some time if you already haven't. I love em both, skirt a little more, but flank is easier for me to find here. Man I'm so hungry after looking at those pics. Great job.
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When I was a kid my mom made skirt steaks all the time, I loved them. I remember them being held together with a stick but I can't seem to find them like that out here. I'll continue the search...thanks Bryan.
 
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Want to try a skirt steak soon. The times I have seen it the cuts are thin though as though they are to be used for fajitas. How thick are the skirt steaks you are grilling Bryan?
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Ray, Skirt is thinner than a flank steak. I used some of them for Fajitas, worked great. I found the whole skirt in Cryo Vac at BJ's last year for cheap. They had 2 packs of them. I bought the one and went back the next day for the other pack and it was gone. I haven't seen them there since. I have one foodsaver pack left in the freezer.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bryan S:
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Want to try a skirt steak soon. The times I have seen it the cuts are thin though as though they are to be used for fajitas. How thick are the skirt steaks you are grilling Bryan?
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Ray, Skirt is thinner than a flank steak. I used some of them for Fajitas, worked great. I found the whole skirt in Cryo Vac at BJ's last year for cheap. They had 2 packs of them. I bought the one and went back the next day for the other pack and it was gone. I haven't seen them there since. I have one foodsaver pack left in the freezer.
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Ok, so they are generally a thinner cut as I am used to seeing then.
 
I just wanted to re-enforce skirt steak is awsome, I, too was wandering why its never mentioned. Brian and Larry, I did end up using it for breakfast sandwiches w/ bagels or biscuit, either one.. and tatoes. just the smallest amount of syrup, etc. oh lord. give it a shot r. benash. -Dan
 
Plan to give it a try shortly. Never really thought about using it other than "the next time I do fajita's I'm going to do it with skirt steak". I have done fajita cooks many times and every time was for someone in the family during summer vacation. So I had limited opportunity to pick the meat. I was "just the cook". It has always been with top round. They like the way I grill steak or seem to have some knowledge. So it is more like "can you cook this for me?" when we are on vacation or during a family event. Most often cooking on their equipment which is always a gasser.

That said - when I have done the fajita cooks for them, I have always said to myself - next time if they tell me ahead of time I will tell them to get skirt instead of top round because it would be so much better.

So I have always ad this urge to just get some skirt and do my own thing at home to experiment. Sort of like my exercise with tri - which I feel confident about now. I love that cut and if someone would ask me to cut a "london broil" I would definitely use a tri instead of top round and not even tell them ;-) It's that much better.

What is funny is that over the years cooking the "london broil" at family functions they just get totally excited about what is really just proper grilling.

Just simply cutting it correctly (bring my own sharpened knives), cooking it to proper temp (bring my own instant read therm), and quickly learning the hot spots/zones of someone else's equipment etc has earned me many kudos free drinks and dinners. It's fun!

Skirt and Flank is on the list for this summer's grilling play for sure.
 
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Ray, Both work very well for Fajitas. Now get that cast iron skillet hot for the WOW! factor.
 
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