thelocaldiner.com » BBQ & Grill http://thelocaldiner.com Local Diner: Celebrating authentic food from the Continental Divide and beyond. Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:09:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 First Cookout http://thelocaldiner.com/2004/04/23/first-cookout/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:56:00 +0000 localdiner http://thelocaldiner.com/?p=16 Like Dave, and maybe with a little guidance from Sam, I’m looking forward to getting to know steak better. For us, that meant picking up some ribeyes and tossing them on the grill for the season’s first cookout. I’ve been grill-deprived for the past few years, so I sat back and watched our friend S take charge. His steak philosophy was essentialist: buy the best cuts you can find (he found them at Van’s Fairway), and eat them rare. The results were persuasive.

I’m picking up a grill this weekend, so I can start working out my own steak philosophy. Pragmatic sirloin, corn-fed, gas grill, and a quick marinade? Or fundamentalist porterhouse, grass-fed, charcoal, with only a rub of salt and pepper? While I’m a pragmatist at most things, I think I may be a steak fundamentalist.

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