The New York steak makes US all good.
By Gerard Oosterman
There is nothing more unreliable than the memories of writers. Remind them of what they wrote last year and they will vehemently deny it. Such is their hold on facts. No sooner have they put down their feeble thoughts and their mind’s shredder takes over and it all ends up into oblivion. Forgetfulness is their raison d’être for writing things down. Forget about vivid evocative pictures as absolute truth.
That’s why my posting the link to Dutch Professor’s Cees Hamelink’s ‘Apology to Putin’ ought to be taken in the same obscure vein. He might well fall in the category of being a nutcase. His writings as short-lived as a fly spinning around on the floor in a last frenzy. It is my own default position; Why not those of others?
Even so, I don’t think America was all that pleased with Mr Fidel Castro either, perched on their side of the world. I have some sympathy for Putin being chagrined about sharing a border with a Pro-West leaning country. Can you imagine the Golden arched Big M in front of the St Petersburg’s Winter Palace?
I am sure the US was miffed with the leftists governments in South America. I have seen enough Oliver Stone movies to consider that the victims of Pinochet, the uprisings of Nicaragua by the Sandinistas, many of the Latin Countries, opposed by the CIA and their induced bloody adventures, would far outweigh anything that has happened so far in the Ukraine. Don’t get me going on Colombia and their past pro US dictators. Garcia Marquez wrote all about that.
It is after all Father’s day.
As early as yesterday I was treated and feted as a good father. I chose New York Steak with peppery sauce. It was fabulous and America is the best country in the world. I haven’t had such a lovely meal for a long time. Sorry vegetarians, I admit to liking a meaty dinner but as a concession and feeble purgatory aim, I have also doubled my vegie and fish intake.
Before plunging in the details of New York Steak, I believe it is known as Porterhouse in England and in Australia. It is the short loin section at the back of the cow. I suppose ‘New York’ steak adds weight and ..above all prestige…Some of my best friends are American and I have always revered New York ,even considered visiting it many times.
An impression once caught sometimes lingers forever while others end into oblivion. I am sure that my New York steak with peppery sauce has now made me benevolent, even more determined to visit that lovely country. We might even go far South to partake in a piece of grilled, honey glazed honest Kansas Steak.
How about that?
It’s delight will last forever.
I remember having a carpet beggar steak in a RSL club somewhere in the Yass Valley (Binalong) many years ago, not knowing what it was , I thought it might be some kind of poor old soldier’s steak. After it was put on our table and I took a closer look, my friend George said it traditionally is a steak used as a hankie. It looked a if someone had blown their nose. I was hungry and I did eat it but his remark made it difficult.
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I make a wonderful carpet bag steak. Heaven.
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I love eye fillet. Scotch fillet next. As long as it is well hung and grass fed.
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I like eye fillet but only when I can get it at a reasonable price. Just melts in the mouth.
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$46 a kilo here Ace. I love it.
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$39 or above here normally. Sometimes we get a special at our butcher which is too good to pass up and we swoop. normally from about the end of October or in the New Year
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Does a hung one taste better? I believe Lambie likes them well hung too.
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Apparently hung is better Gez, ask Viv
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I think she likes them strung up and dried n the sun after which matinated in Balsamic vinegar, then left to rest for 10 minutes before ingesting them but not forgetting spitting out the stones.. 😉
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????
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I think she’s mutton dressed up as Lambie.
Apparently the men are best if they’re well hung, the women with no trace of material near their faces.
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Well sharia to that Big but I’m not sure how to explain it.
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Lovely Gerard. Enjoyable read. I’ll pop back on Thursday to perhaps discuss merits of different cuts of steak.
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Apropos of absolutely nothing, I’ve stumbled across this series of videos that reveals the true Australian! Let me know what you think.
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Yvonne, there’s dozens of these quintessential piss-takes. I like the one about the Citizenship test. If there was ever a thinly disguised bit of Howard-era racism, that’s it !
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I remember a steak in Chicago that was so large, I expected to find a cowboy lurking under the fries. It was grand, all right, but overwhelming in the “I think I’m going to explode” vein. Good to hear from you Gez. Cheers.
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Rib eye is my favourite Gerard
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It IS delicious, Hung. It’s even better cooked after it’s been hung.
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