Sunday, 8 July 2012

Coriander beef paleo sexiness



There are three sentences that make my balls crawl back up inside my body and bite down on my knuckles.  'We need to talk' is one of them.  'You've been tagged on facebook' being another.  The third is 'I know this great restaurant you'd love'.  


I know restaurants.  I've worked in restaurants.  I was in fucking restaurants since the age of 15...at 3am in the fucking morning cleaning down.  I was there (I'll tell my grandkids)...covered in oil and spices with flecks of garnish in my eyebrows, thirty tickets on the line, covering three stations at once...screaming and shouting and throwing things like an idiot.  


I made a waiter cry.  Not a waitress.  A waiter.  Soft lad.


So I know my restaurants.  And I know that if you really want me to go to your restaurant and like it, it  needs to be the equivalent of British Masterchef.  On crack.  With unicorns.  And strippers.


So I went and I waited 20 minutes for a glass of water, silently judging each and every waiter that wiped their hands on their uniforms in front of the customers...I'm not a diva (honest!) I've eaten in enough street restaurants to develop a kind of 'salmonella-blindness', but this was an upmarket place in the city center of Manchester.  It was supposed to be posh...*sobs*, *falls to floor* ...it was supposed to be posh....!

I ordered coriander beef and it was disappointing and crap.  And £11.  For a tiny plate of beef that was half cooked, half raw, smeared in sugary sauce and then 'bukkaked' with coriander leaves.  £11.  That's almost half a blowjob in Manchester!

Went home and decided to make it myself.  Made so much I had extra for a snack later on and lunch the next day.  It was easy, it was delicious, it was tasty.  We rock.  Now you will too...


Click to enlarge.

How To Rock:

  • Get some beef (the marbled stuff tastes so much better - the fat will melt and be tasty)
  • A bunch of coriander (stems an' all)
  • One tablespoon of peppercorns
  • One handful of chopped up ginger
  • Two cloves of garlic
  • A lemon (I used a lime 'cos I'm a badass)
  • Some beef dripping
  • Some salt and pepper
  • A handful of spring onions (scallions...*waves at the americans*)
Firstly slice up the beef into thin strips and marinate for a few hours in the lemon or lime juice with the cracked pepper corns, ginger and garlic, salt, pepper, coriander stems and spring onions.


Heat up a table spoon of dripping in the pan or wok, add the whole lot and fry on a high temperature, constantly turning the beef strips.  Add the coriander leaves for the last few minutes and serve.

How bloody easy was that!?

Enjoy ;)

PS: a MASSIVE paleo-naked-group-hug to everyone that took the time to message/comment/well wish after Greg.  Considering he's flirting with everything in a skirt 'hey baby...wanna see my scars?' he's definitely on the road to recovery.  We love you all :D

21 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing this!

    I have been craving juicy chunks of beef lately. This will do well.

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  2. Thanks for sharing such delishhhhhh!!!

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  3. Britannia! Good lad! You know ... you could have some feckin' chips with that :D

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  4. Beef dripping? I'm from Canada eh... we don't get that here.

    I see the picture there, does it come like a stick of butter?

    To get beef fat here, you gotta go to a special butcher or render it yourself

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    1. I think on our continent it's sold as tallow, sometimes as lard. Technically, lard is rendered pork fat and tallow is rendered beef fat, but I've tallow labeled as lard by some brands.

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    2. I'm pretty sure on our continent (at least in the US) it's sold as tallow, sometimes as lard. Technically lard = rendered pork fat and tallow = rendered beef fat, but I've seen at least one brand sell the beef fat labeled as lard.

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  5. *waves back* Thanks for the clarification. Us Yankees really get our knickers in a twist when we can't read the recipe. ;)

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  6. This is what's on the menu tomorrow!

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  7. Bugger the beef coriander!
    NO not Literally!!!
    I've been checking in for 'Greg Updates...'
    I don't give a rat's arse who is eating what...
    beef... coriander... how can you fuck that up??? REALLY???
    XXXOOO

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  8. *Green onions....waves back from Canada...

    Is coriander British for cilantro?

    Looks very yummy, btw! Am making kale/beet salad and feta beef burgers tonight, but your recipe is next on the list.

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  9. yep, coriander = cilantro

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  10. Spring onions in the US aren't scallions. Spring onions are sold as baby onions - because if it's a baby it automatically tastes better - and have a very appreciable bulb. Really, what we call spring onions are just scallions that have been allowed to grow up a little more. Scallions, which have no appreciable bulb, and green onions are synonymous here.

    And coriander is coriander whether you're in the UK or US.

    This recipe looks stupid simple and stupid delicious and I can't wait to try it!

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  11. Spring onions in the US aren't scallions. Spring onions are sold as baby onions - because if it's a baby it automatically tastes better - and have a very appreciable bulb. Really, what we call spring onions are just scallions that have been allowed to grow up a little more. Scallions, which have no appreciable bulb, and green onions are synonymous here.

    And coriander is coriander whether you're in the UK or US.

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  12. Spring onions in the US aren't scallions. Spring onions are sold as baby onions - because if it's a baby it automatically tastes better - and have a very appreciable bulb. Really, what we call spring onions are just scallions that have been allowed to grow up a little more. Scallions, which have no appreciable bulb, and green onions are synonymous here.

    And coriander is coriander whether you're in the UK or US.

    This recipe looks stupid simple and stupid delicious and I can't wait to try it!

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  13. Barefoot Amy31 July 2012 16:17

    In the US, coriander refers to the seeds (ground or whole) and cilantro refers to the leaves and stalks/stems of the same plant. Coriander is found in the spice aisle and cilantro is found in the produce area.

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  14. *American waves back.* Sorry, couldn't resist.

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  15. Thanks for the recipe. Made it today and it's fantastic!

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  16. Made this with venison last week. Extra-sexy!

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  17. Made this with venison last week. Extra-sexy!

    *waves back* also used lime, cilantro, lard, and green onions--not sure if it's even the same recipe at this point.....

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  18. I LOVE how there are no measurements, just approximations. Thanks for sharing!!

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