Mystery Meat for Dinner

[Brandi]

What is cider reduction?

[snapdragen]

What is cider reduction?

Essentially cooking something (in this case cider) until it reduces in volume. You end up with a syrup like sauce.

wikipedia: Reduction (cooking), the process of thickening a liquid mixture such as a sauce by evaporation

[SadieKate]

Yum, we are having pork tenderloin for din-din. Sweet spuds and green beans. SK is one happy girl.

[snapdragen]

I have a pork tenderloin in the freezer....I should take it out to thaw for tomorrow. Do I feel like cooking tomorrow? Hmmm........

[Tuckervill]

Don't you gals thaw in the microwave?

I can have chicken ready to cook in 3 minutes.

Don't try that frozen turkey though!

Karen

[Veronica]

Actually I thawed the original mystery meat in the microwave. I prefer to do it in the frig because my microwave always seems to cook the edges just a little and leave the middle frozen.

Yesterday I turned it into beef stew, using a recipe from this month's Sunset. The broth is made from beer! It called for ale, but I used Sam Adams Boston Lager. It was REALLY good.

The mystery meat was flank steak, so it didn't take as long to cook as the Sunset recipe.

V.

[mimitabby]

thanks to that power outage we had right before christmas, we don't have any more mystery meats! (I guess I need to go get some!)