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.
For most people, sirloin steak is not an everyday meal. One of the more economical prime cuts of beef, sirloin steak offers a flavorful break from ground beef, chicken and other daily fare. It comes from the upper, forward part of the rear hip, so the muscles got a fair workout moving the steer about.
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Top round roasts come from the hind quarter of the steer, and those muscles get well worked. Consequently, top round roasts are lean and full-flavored, but lacking fat and marbling, they don’t tenderize quickly. Cook your top round oven roast slowly with a low heat.
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Thin-sliced steaks are available in many grocery stores and butcher shops. Sold in packages with four to six steaks, they’re usually labeled as breakfast, sandwich, wafer or minute steaks. This small, lean, boneless cut of meat comes from the eye of round steak.
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Round steak comes from the hindquarter of the steer, a part of the animal that gets a lot of use. This makes round steak lean, with little marbling or fat to tenderize it during dry cooking.
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Tenderloin steak, also known as filet or filet mignon, cooks up quickly and easily on the stove. Lean, yet tender and succulent, this buttery-flavored beef should be cooked using dry methods, such as broiling, grilling or frying. It turns out particularly well when seared and then finished on the stove top.
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Delmonico steak, named after the famous lower-Manhattan restaurant that popularized it in the 1850s, is cut from the little-exercised short-loin group of muscles. It goes by many names, including beef top loin, Kansas City, New York Strip, shell and club steak.
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Many cuts of meat are tough and chewy because they come from muscles that get a lot of exercise. Cuts from the shoulder area of deer, lamb, cow and pig contain a lot of connective tissues that make the meat chewy, but the tissues melt when exposed to steam heat.
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