Rosemary's pretty good with steaks :)
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Rosemary is good with sooo much! Potatoes, beans, coliflour. mmmm!
Wait till you try Thyme, even better!
Meh, they're pretty even, both are good but boring. It's more situational than rosemary or thyme, but for my money, nothing beats basil. Maaaybe cilantro, especially taking ground coriander into account, but with the whole genetic soap-taste thing, it's just too controversial.
Not in my opinion
I have trouble convincing cooks not to add anything to my food, i still get lots of spice and garlic no matter what i say! it's not a terrible burden
My trouble with herbs and spices when cooking is that they tend to stick to the pan more than the steak does, and I have to do more work to clean up after. So I've mostly stopped using any flavouring whatsoever, purely out of laziness.
Fry the herbs (and some garlic cloves) whole in butter in the pan as the steak sears. Baste the steak with the flavored butter using a spoon. Problem solved.
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Because I like killing plants as well?
My brother in law told me I was "objectively wrong" about preferring steak without black pepper
But meat just tastes so good
Your brother in law is correct
Op is a filthy savage eating underseasoned meat confirmed.
The only thing a good steak needs is salt.
But, I do think pepper and herbed butter do enhance it. I don't see how you could make that an "objective" claim, tho.
I'm guessing it went something like, "Steak is good and pepper is good, so steak and pepper together are better than either alone." Of course Jim Gaffigan disproved this line of reasoning with his fruit cake bit: "Fruit, good, cake, good, fruit cake, nasty crap!"
Fruitcake is good tho
So is steak and pepper
Salt/MSG, pepper, butter, rosemary are the absolute most a half decent steak will ever need. But for high grade beef like wagyu, I agree that anything more than just salt would ruin it. Can't say the same for other meats. Steak is unique in this sense. Everything else gets drowned in seasonings.
Brothers like to tease! On the spectrum of bad takes, this one isn't so bad.
I will say - BAD MEAT, old meat, ground beef, all benefit from spices to mask their slightly off flavor. High quality fresh meat doesn't need it.
I have never had steak with pepper.
But the beauty of life is you can enjoy things the way you want.
You make it with plants, they enhance the flavor of the meat, not mask it, if you do it right
Doesn't apply to me: only coarse sea salt as seasoning
Pepper and thyme are the only plants my steaks need
Meat is tasty. It's s great source of protein, which being on displays, my body needs more of than average healthy people. I struggle to get enough.
But for pleasurably eating... I just had Indian tonight. I got daal makhani and palak paneer Two vegetarian dishes.
I like meatless meals. In part because they can be easier because of all the stuff I have to avoid like processed meats. Beans and rice is easier to fit in my diet.
But meat is still important.
If your having trouble hitting your protein targets you might want to eat food that has a high DIAAS rating, i.e. the protein your eating is bioavailable with the right ratios of amino acids. Beans and rice don't have great DIAAS ratings, so they are not helping you hit your protein targets in isolation.
I like vegetarian Indian dishes because they don't pretend to be a meat dish made without meat. They are their own thing.
That said, the best Indian dish imo is butter chicken.
Paneer makhani is essentially "butter paneer". I like it better because the chicken many Indian places use is fine, but it's almost a distraction from the sauce. Paneer seems to interfere less. heh
How to say you don't understand cooking without saying you don't understand cooking.
Heat + Meat = Good to eat
If you're British, sure. The rest of the developed world prefers their food to have flavor.
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