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Recipe Rants: Alehouse Beef-and-Potato Skewers

August 12, 2012 by robertforto Leave a Comment

We are always searching for new and unique ways to prepare food. Whether it be purely Alaskan recipes or new takes on old favorites, we share them on RobertForto.com under our Recipe Rants category.
Sirloin is an outstanding beef cut for kabobs. Use red-skinned or Yukon Gold potatoes or a combination for a particularly attractive presentation. Mushrooms or parboiled carrot chunks would be good additions to the skewers. We used London Broil and it turned out fantastic!

Ingredients:

  • 1 lb. small red-skinned or Yukon Gold potatoes, each about 1 1/2
    inches in diameter or cut if larger

For the alehouse marinade:

  • 3/4 cup ale or beer. We used Alaskan Summer Ale
  • 1/3 cup beef broth
  • 1/3 cup spicy tomato juice
  • 1 Tbs. Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 to 1 tsp. hot-pepper sauce, such as Tabasco. We used Franks
  • 1 Tbs. chopped fresh thyme
  • 1 Tbs. chopped fresh oregano
  • 2 fresh or dried bay leaves, broken in half
  • 1 1/2 lb. boneless London Broil, about 1 1/2 inches thick, cut into
    1 1/2-inch cubes

Directions:

Bring a saucepan three-fourths full of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the potatoes and cook just until they can be pierced with a knife but are not completely tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Drain well and set aside. (The potatoes can be parboiled up to 4 hours in advance and kept at room temperature.)To make the marinade, in a shallow, nonreactive dish just large enough to hold the meat, combine the ale, broth, tomato juice, Worcestershire, hot-pepper sauce, thyme, oregano and bay leaves and mix well. Add the meat and turn to coat on all sides. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or up to 4 hours. Add the potatoes to the marinade during the last 30 minutes.Prepare a charcoal or gas grill for direct grilling over high heat. Oil the grill rack.Remove the meat and potatoes from the marinade and discard the marinade. Thread the meat and potatoes alternately onto 8 metal skewers, dividing the ingredients evenly.

Grill the skewers over the hottest part of a charcoal fire or directly over the heat elements of a gas grill, turning to char all sides, until the potatoes are browned and the meat is cooked to your liking, 7 to 9 minutes total for medium-rare meat.

Transfer the skewers to warmed individual plates and serve immediately. Serves 4.

Adapted from  a recipe found on Williams-Sonoma.com

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Grilling or cellphone? That’s the question…

July 21, 2011 by robertforto 3 Comments

Think about it. If you had to chose. Just one choice. If your life depended on it. Which would you chose?

Grilling or your cellphone

Its a tough choice for me. I am literally addicted to my iPhone. I use it for everything. running my business, blogging, twit-facing, Youtubbing and at least a hundred texts back and forth a day to my wife and others.

I can remember back to the day before I had a cellphone. I was about 14 and it was 1985. I was such a geeky nerd that I had a phone that I carried around in a shoulder bag. I was on Cellular One back then and I thought that I would never, ever run out of 250 minutes! How is that even possible? 250 minutes, on the phone? In one month? No way!

Needless to say I ran out of minutes in the first month.

Now to grilling.

It is every man’s (and some women, I might add) birth right to own the biggest, baddest grill on the planet. It doesn’t matter if it is charcoal or propane or heck even a George Forman. But a man has gotta grill!

There is noting like the smell of grilling over an open flame. Who doesn’t like that smell? It takes us back to our primordial caveman days of sitting around an open flame and cooking the day’s flesh with our sweetheart by our side, bone in her hair and all.

I don’t care what you are making it can be grilled and chances are it will taste better. Pizza, beer can chicken, a juicy steak, veggies…

Don’t get me started on my smoker!

So if you had to make a choice. What would it be. Think real hard…

Take the Poll

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