What exactly about Swiss Steak is Swiss? It's tomatoes and meat and peppers... weird. The best part about this recipe was that Scott made me buy a meat mallet the last time we went shopping, so I got to pound the hell out of a side of beef. Awesome. No, like really, awesome. Talk about therapeutic! I guess you have to "tenderize" the beef first since you are then going to have to let it simmer for the next fifty years. Okay, for the next hour and twenty-five minutes, but STILL!!!! We were so hungry!!!!
The result??? Meh. I used fresh tomatoes instead of canned, since the only nice tomatoes I could find were in whole entire baskets and Scott doesn't like tomatoes, so I had a bazillion. I actually screamed "EWWWW!!!" when I touched a sticky, gross tomato at the store, and a nice man told me to go check out the baskets, they had nicer ones. This left me with a large amount of over-ripe tomatoes.
I didn't really care for this recipe. It took a long time and didn't taste like much. Swiss Steak is like a metaphor for my life this week... Huge effort, high hopes, beatings with mallets and entirely anti-climactic. I'm not going to hold it against the Swiss, however, as they have brought us such things as cheese and chocolate, army knives and neutrality (all of which are SUPER good) but their steak? I think I'll pass.
This post made me laugh tonight. Several times. That's right. Pound the crap out of that meat. Bahahahaha.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, and that Swiss chocolate knife-thing looks yummy.
ReplyDeleteSwiss Steak - I tend to like it when I don't feel like cooking because the one I make is in the crock pot. That makes the effort way less. I think I need to start tenderizing meat though. I guess the crock pot is my metaphor...effort at first, high hopes, followed by a gradual loss of interest until I see a final product that benefits me in some way.....just sayin'! :)
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