Foodbuzz 24,24,24: A Steakhouse Dinner Reloaded
My contribution to Foodbuzz’s January “24, 24, 24″ blog marathon is “A Steakhouse Dinner: Reloaded.” I selected four traditional steakhouse dishes and decided to update them with 21st century cooking and presentation techniques. Five dined at my apartment last night including myself, my brother Justin and his wife Val, and our friend Mike and his girlfriend Annie. Justin and Mike brought their cameras and shooting equipment and took the fantastic photographs.
I cooked our main course, filet mignon, using a modern cooking technique called sous vide. French for “under pressure,” sous vide involves cooking foods vacuum sealed in platic in a water bath heated to a very specific temperature. This technique is used in some of the world’s top restaurants and is normally very expensive. Read on to discover an easy and inexpensive method of cooking sous vide at home. Here’s the menu:
Shrimp Cocktail
Your appetizer and cocktail all in one
Chophouse Salad “Lasagna”
Bacon, Tomatoes, Marinated Red Onions, and Hard Boiled Eggs with Bleu Cheese Dressing
The Perfect Filet Mignon
Cooked sous vide, with mashed potatoes, pommes maxim, sautéed vegetables, and bordelaise sauce
Bananas Foster
Vanilla ice cream, bruleed bananas, pulled sugar, and caramel-bourbon drizzle set alight on the table.
This is a shrimp cocktail that’s your appetizer and cocktail in one. It’s a horseradish bloodymary served with shrimp. The glass is rimmed with a mix of lemon zest, horseradish, and salt. Traditional bloody mary ingredients include tomato juice, lemon juice, Tabasco sauce, worcestershire sauce, and horseradish. These are also the major flavors of cocktail sauce, so the shrimp pairs very well with this bold cocktail.
Justin drinking his shrimp cocktail
This is a version of the classic iceburg wedge salad. The lasagna style presentation makes it more fun and easier to eat. Just like the classic, this is a knife and fork salad. It’s also extremely easy to make. Here’s a recipe for 5 servings:
Chophouse Salad “Lasagna:”
- 4 oz. red onions, finely sliced (about ½ an onion)
- 1 Tb. champagne vinegar
- 1 Tb. olive oil
- 2 heads iceburg lettuce
- 1/2 lb. bacon, diced and cooked
- 6 hard boiled eggs, diced
- 5 Roma tomatoes, diced
- 1/2 c. bleu cheese dressing
- Salt and Pepper TT
Season the onions and toss with oil and vinegar. Refrigerate and allow to marinate for 2 hours. Gently remove the iceburg lettuce leaves and, using a 3½'’ circular cutter, cut at least 25 lettuce rounds. Use the remaining lettuce for salad the next day. Place the same circular cutter in the center of the plate. Place a layer of lettuce in the mold and gently spread about 1 Tb. of onion on the lettuce. Top with another round of lettuce and repeat with the bacon, eggs, and tomatoes, making sure to create a neat, even layer. Top with lettuce and gently lift the mold. Drizzle with bleu cheese dressing. Garnish with the filling and a grinding of black pepper.
Bordelaise sauce, mashed potatoes, pommes Maxim, and sautéed vegetables
For the main course I prepared a filet mignon with bordelaise sauce. It’s served with mashed potatoes, pommes maxim, and sauteed vegetables. At first glance this looks very traditional but I used a cutting edge cooking technique called sous vide. Foods cooked sous vide are sealed in plastic and cooked at a very specific temperature for anywhere from a few minutes to a few days, depending on the food. The major advantages of sous vide are three fold:
1. Cooking sous vide achieves an even doneness throughout. A steak cooked sous vide to medium is medium from the outside to the very center.
2. Foods cooked sous vide absorb flavors very well.
3. Foods cooked sous vide stay juicy and flavorful because there is nowhere for the juices to go and no air for the flavor compounds to escape into.
To successfully cook sous vide at home you’ll need three things: A vacuum sealer or ziploc bags, a large stock pot, and a digital probe thermometer. Simply season your food, seal it in a plastic bag (or push as much air out of a ziploc bag as you can) along with any other aromatics. In this case I sealed the filet mignon with fresh garlic and a sprig of thyme. Place the sealed food in the largest pot you have and fill to the brim with water. Insert the digital probe thermometer into the water and slowly heat to the desired temperature. When the temperature is reached, cover the pot, turn off the heat, and monitor the temperature. A large pot should hold the temperature very well, so you may only need to adjust once or twice. I cooked these steaks to 135° F for about 2 hours for a perfectly rare steak. After the steaks were cooked, I removed them from the bags, and seared them very quickly in clarified butter. The result is a steak cooked perfectly throughout with the beautiful caramelized crust achieved from sauteing or grilling.
Cooking sous vide at home. Click for a larger collage.
I served the filet mignon with mashed potatoes and a mix of sautéed vegetables. The turnips and carrots I cooked sous vide and the brussel sprouts I blanched in boiling, salted water (cooking green vegetables sous vide turns them brown). The potato garnish is Pommes Maxim, a crisp of potatoes cooked in clarified butter, and the sauce is sauce bordelaise, a traditional french sauce flavored with shallots, red wine, and a veal demi glace.
Frozen pyramid, caramel-bourbon drizzle, bruléed banana, set alight on the table
The grand finale was a modern take on bananas foster. Using a stainless steel pyramid mold I froze vanilla ice cream in a shell of pureed bananas. I served it with some caramel-bourbon sauce, a bruléed banana, and a pulled sugar garnish. I drizzled the entire plate with a bit of bourbon and flambéed it right on the plate. The flames softened the frozen bananas and provided the hot/cold contrast of traditional bananas foster. Here’s a recipe for 5 servings
Banana and Vanilla Ice Cream Pyramid:
- 5 bananas
- Pinch salt
- 5 oz. heavy cream
- 2 vitamin C tablets, crushed into a fine powder
- 10 Tb. vanilla ice cream
Combine the bananas, salt, heavy cream, and vitamin C in a blender. Blend on high for 1 minute or until smooth. The vitamin C will prevent the banana from oxidizing, just as lemon juice would. Fill 5 pyramid molds to the brim with banana puree. Freeze for 2 hours, or until slightly firm. Using a paring knife, remove some banana puree from the pyramid mold, forming a 1/4 inch shell of frozen banana. Continue to freeze the shell for 1 more hour. Reserve the remaining banana puree. Soften the vanilla ice cream and fill the pyramid shell with 2 Tb. of ice cream. Fill any open space with the remaining banana puree. Hold in the freezer until you’re ready to use.
Caramel Bourbon Drizzle:
- 6 oz. heavy cream
- 3.5 oz. sugar
- 2.5 oz. corny syrup
- 1 oz. bourbon
- 1 oz whole butter, cubed
Scald the cream in a small saucepan and keep warm. Combine sugar and corn syrup and cook over medium flame until slighty brown. Carefully add bourbon, butter and cream, stirring gently, to dissolve. Cool to room temperature.
To Assemble:
- 1 banana
- 2 Tb. sugar
- Banana pyramids
- Caramel bourbon drizzle
- 5 oz. bourbon
Peel the banana and slice on a bias into five pieces. Coat 1 cut end with a bit of sugar and brulée with a torch. Drizzle the plate with caramel-bourbon sauce, place a pyramid and the bruleed banana on the plate. The pyramid will un-mold easily. if you dip it in hot water or warm the outside with a torch. Top with bourbon and light in front of the diner.
Setting the bananas foster alight
Photos by Justin Kern and Mike Boehmer.
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Garrett and Justin:
Your Steakhouse Dinner Reloaded looks fantastic. Mom and I would love to have this sometime. The photos are fabulous, too.
We love the new portrait of Garrett. You ought to put that on your site so everyone can see who you are!
Great food and great post, Garrett!
When can I dine at Garrett’s Table again? This looks fabulous and I’m jealous of those who got to eat it.
Garrett,
After reading these recipes and seeing the photos, and my mouth now watering, you can take a pass on my two suggestions for French toast.
Haha thanks Tom but those suggestions are still in my mind. I haven’t done any breakfast foods yet and that’s a huge oversight.
The beef was out of this world tasty - I was amazed at how much faster the vacuum sealing process allows the flavor to seep into the meat. I tried something similar a few weeks ago and got only half the flavor through a brine in a plastic bag. Awesome dinner.
OMG!
I just stuck my monitor with my fork!
Wow.
Garrett- This post and website is fantastic. The photography of your work makes every food lover ready to stop by your “restaurant”. Next time I am out in Chicago I hope to catch up with you!
wow, this is awesome! everything looks really delicious and the photos are fantastic!
Top-notch food info here. I had always been curious about the methods of sous vide, but was just waiting for someone to show me the way so to speak. Your version of Bananas Foster is gorgeous! I’ll have to impress my husband with that one, and subito!
Congratulations on being selected to do a “24″ dinner. The sous vide filet mignon is interesting, but the salad “lasagna” is the most fun. I can see a lot of possibilities there.
We also did a “24″ dinner, cooking a cioppino, but doing it Chinese hot pot style. Come check out our post!
Thanks for posting, definitely going to subscribe! See you on my reader.
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