Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Viande
There is, just around the corner from the dorm, some kind of prize-winning, delicious-looking butcher shop, into whose window I stared longingly for some time yesterday. Should I get a steak or lamb chops or something? Complicating factors include: I only have a small saucepan; I have no way of making this into a meal (although that, plus bread, salad, cheese...); and the hall-mates I eat with when not being a dissertation-hermit are all vegetarians, so this is not a very convivial thing to bring to dinner, nor would I ask any of them to borrow a pan. Is the answer just to buy a pan? To eat out once bread-and-pasta overload strikes, paying more but getting inspiration for what to serve with steak from a real Parisian chef, and maybe even getting some fries out of it?
Look up cooking en papillote; if you have access to an oven as well as a stove, you can create an entire meal, with meat and vegetables, and steam it in a parchment wrapping.
ReplyDeleteGood idea, but no oven here. (I've done something like that at home, with tin foil, and it does come out quite well!)
ReplyDeleteI'd buy a pan.
ReplyDelete(And you can make it a meal easily enough by, say, sauteeing some vegetables before the steak, then using the steak drippings in the pan to make a pan sauce - "gravy", as one might call it.
Easy and delicious, requiring only some fat and flour.)