Posted on 07/26/2022 7:09:58 AM PDT by mylife
My fiancée was texting one of her best friends the other night, who told her she’d recently made salisbury steak for dinner. Huh. Salisbury steak. I hadn’t thought of Salisbury steak in years, and the only time I’d really had it was from a frozen microwaveable tray when I was a kid. It didn’t even occur to me that people made Salisbury steak from scratch. But when you think about it, Salisbury steak is essentially just hamburger patties in brown gravy, sometimes with mushrooms. I thought, “Wait. Why am I not making this too?”
A few nights later I went to the store, grabbed some ground beef, some mushrooms, and a jar (yes, a jar) of brown gravy and slapped dinner together in under an hour. And guess what? It was freakin’ delicious.
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Salisbury steak was big when I was a little kid under the Carter administration, when inflation was at the levels we’re seeing again and real steaks were expensive. I guess it’s making a comeback under Biden.
Now under Brandon we’re lucky if we can afford any kind of beef.
Here in Phoenix, home of the Sonoran Hot Dog, which has enough calories to feed an igloo dwelling Eskimo family for a week, some of their optional ingredients have some great culinary utility. And could work with Salisbury steak.
For example, they use fresh diced or sliced onion, sweated onions, sauteed onions *and* caramelized onion. Oddly enough, they work well together. And green onions, too.
They grow “elephant garlic”, actually a kind of Leek, in the area, and raw it is about as strong as purple onion, though if cooked it tastes like garlicked potato. Typically you use a potato peeler to shave it onto salad or onto cooked meat with mushrooms and onion.
A roasted New Mexican green Hatch chile would add a lot of character to a Salisbury steak.
I think of a slab of beef lying on a block at Stonehenge.
Americans, get to know and love those Banquet TV dinners, an old friend from your youth or from the 70’s.
If I need a Salisbury steak fix I buy a few frozen ones at Walmart they’re still cheap ,LOL
I'll have to try that out.
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Salisbury was treating survivors of the Civil War, who were dying from diarrhea.
Kroger started doing that and our local Food Lion is moving in that direction. We eat less meat now so it’s not a big draw for us.
I am saddened that no one posted this exchange:
Stan: What’s gonna be for lunch today Chef?
Chef: Well, today it’s Salisbury steak with buttered noodles, and a choice of green bean casserole, or vegetable medley.
Apparently it was a facial wound, probably from a stone fragment, and he lived for a couple of days afterward. Yes, a rough way to go.
I love Salisbury steak, but my cardiologist tells me I need to cut back on red meat.
The Salisbury gravy is also good on chicken breast.
You’re right of course; Salisbury steak was not named for the Earl. I came across the macabre association of the name with the Earl’s death a long time ago, in the introduction to one of those Alfred Hitchcock story collections, and it has just stuck with me.
Anything that goes with mashed potatoes and gravy is awesome.
Whatever happened to that quarterback named Sean Salsbury?
Have you ever made Groundhog Stroganoff?
You just substitute it for the ground beef.
Glad you posted - got my curiosity up! :-)
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