Beef jerky
Posted by Heather Lackey | Filed under Enjoying Food, Preparing Food
The beef jerky I started yesterday is done! I used a sirloin roast, let it thaw (a little) overnight in the fridge, then sliced it late yesterday morning while it was still mostly frozen. In descending order (and without bothering to measure), I used the following ingredients in the marinade: soy sauce, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, minced anchovies and sea salt. Many beef jerky recipes call for liquid smoke, but I find that stuff foul.
The beef slices marinated for probably eight hours before I put them in the dehydrator.
You can also use your oven to make jerky—Google brings up lots of instructions on that.
I didn’t use the whole roast—I cut two “steaks” off the end of it, and that’s what we’ll have for dinner tonight.
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I’d been meaning to start a food-related blog for a few months—since not too long after I began changing the way I thought about food—but I couldn’t get a handle on where I wanted to go with it. Now, on January 1, 2010, it’s the first day of a new year—a new decade, even. What better time to get going on this? 
January 25th, 2010 at 9:18 am
Love this stuff. Store-bought jerky just doesn’t hold a candle to the real deal.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
We need more of this!