Meat recipes for every occasion include slow-cooked elk, low-sodium pork tenderloin, and perfectly seared filet mignon. Master oven-roasting in bags and electric smoker techniques for the best pulled pork.
A boneless veal roast is an elegant alternative to more common homemade roasts. Top round and leg cuts of veal are optimal for roasting, as they're resilient, juicy and flavorful. Veal is usually more expensive than other roasting meats and poultry.
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Broiling is a healthy cooking method, letting you prepare pork loin without added fat and calories from oil or butter. It's also quick and relatively hand-off, so even novice cooks can pull it off successfully with little opportunity for error.
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Baking a ham roast is a fairly simple process. If your ham is frozen, you'll get the best results by defrosting it in the refrigerator before cooking. Give the ham at least seven hours per pound to thaw in the refrigerator. You can also bake a frozen ham, but it will take about 1.
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Cooking a beef roast well-done makes the meat less tender and juicy, and considerably more chewy, than beef cooked to a lower temperature. For this reason, it's important to pick the best beef cuts for roasting. Loin, chuck and rib meat are optimal, being the most tender and juicy cuts.
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The giant, melt-in-your-mouth tender porterhouse steak is undoubtedly the king of steaks, containing both a New York strip and a filet mignon all in one. It's more common to pan-sear a porterhouse to develop its crust then finish cooking it in the oven, but you can also pan-fry the steak all the way.
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Sirloin tip steak -- more widely known as flap meat -- is surprisingly flavorful and tender given its relatively low cost. This cheap cut does well with fast cooking methods like pan searing and grilling, but with a little tenderizing marination, you can turn out a great baked sirloin tip steak, too.
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Filet mignon is the most tender cut of beef, and you pay for the privilege of it gracing your plate. It's not a particularly flavorful cut, though, due to its lack of fat marbling. Of course, that translates to less saturated fat, cholesterol and calories, which is a good thing.
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