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Meat Recipe #15 – Beef Jerky!

Jerky – oh that sweet chewy bounty of the heavens!

Real jerky is awesome!  Dehydrated meat, usually beef, cut into strips and flavoured to perfection.  Unfortunately most people have not tried proper jerky.  All they have tried is that awful rubbery crap you get in little packets at servo’s and bottle shops.

Well that jerky is the same to real jerky as powdered mashed potatoes is to real potatoes – a horrible aberration, a pale shade of what the good stuff really is.

When living in Melbourne there was a deli at the Vic Markets that did really good beef jerky and whenever I traveled to the big city I would buy up as much as possible.  But now living in NSW, Melbourne is a long way away, especially during the pandemic.

So I’ve been learning to make my own – and I’ve gotten damn good at it!  And because, like Rarity, I am the paragon of generosity I’m going to share that recipe with you now.

 

Ingredients

  • 1.5kg slab of Beef
  • 1/3 cup of Soy Sauce
  • 1/3 cup of Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1 tbsp of Minced Garlic
  • 1 tbsp of Brown Sugar
  • 1 tsp of Chilli Flakes
  • 1 tsp of Smoked Paprika
  • ½ tsp of Ground Black Pepper

 

Method

  • Trim all the fat from the beef, stick in the freezer for two hours
Easier to carve when slightly frozen
  • Remove beef from freezer, slice into strips 0.5cm thick
If too thick meat wont dehydrate inside properly
  • In a bowl mix the Soy Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce , Garlic, Brown Sugar, Chilli Flakes, Smoked Paprika and Black Pepper.
Ohhh that delicious smell!
  • Massage meat strips thoroughly through the mix. Cover with cling wrap and marinate overnight
Meat should have absorbed the mixture
  • Take marinated beef strips, put in food dehydrator set on high for 9 hours. If you don’t own a food dehydrator either go buy one (they are worth it!) or else stick in the oven on low for 6 hours.
Space evenly
Rotate racks if meat is not drying evenly
  • And now you have jerky!  EAT!

 

So damn good!

And that’s it – simple as!  Follow Big Angry Trev’s Jerky Recipe and you will get brilliant meat every time!

 

 

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Recipe – Curried Duck Eggs

Don’t ya hate it when your poultry has a secret nest?

I have all these great laying drums set up for my ducks, but for some damn reason half of them prefer to find some nice secret spot in the garden and lay their eggs there every day until I discover it a few weeks later.

This just happened yet again, so we’ve gone from no duck eggs to having well over a dozen that have to get used up pretty quick from not being refrigerated.

So I decided to try out a recipe of my sisters to use them up – her magnificent curried eggs.  She makes them that mouthwatering that for years I’ve insisted on a plate of them instead of birthday gifts from her.

While I can’t profess to make them as well as her, I gave it the ol’ college try and they still came out pretty damn good!  And it’s a simple recipe so really easy to make.  So here is Big Angry Trev’s sisters recipe for Curried Duck Eggs.

 

Ingredients:

*16 Duck Eggs – boiled

*120gm Butter

*4 tbsp Cream

*2 tsp Curry Powder

*1 tsp Mustard Powder

*Black Pepper

*Paprika

*Chilli Flakes

 

Method

*Boil the eggs, slice in half and scoop out the yolks.

*Put yolks in a bowl and add butter, cream, curry powder, mustard powder and season with black pepper.  Mash.

*Spoon mix back into egg whites.

 

Seasoning

How you season your eggs is up to you.  Typically as the househusband I have to cater to everyone’s particular tastes so I divvy the eggs up into 3 lots.

First lot I put on no seasoning for my kids.

Second lot I put on paprika for my wife.

The third I put on paprika and chilli flakes for myself.

I’ve yet to try them with hot sauce but that’s only a matter of time.  But I definitely recommend the paprika, it really makes the flavour pop!

 

And there ya go, a simple recipe that is an effective way to use up all those extra eggs you find lying around the farm.

 

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