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Neat idea.
Must have been kinda tricky to slice that steak into small or thin cuts? How did you manage it?
My youngest son was an executive chef for years and taught culinary in college long ago. He told me one of the tricks an older chef taught him about cutting meat: place it in a freezer wrapped in parchment or wax paper. Then take it out for cutting just as it starts to ice over and get just below freezing. He showed me how it is much easier to slice or cut when it is in that almost frozen stage. Another trick he used I was surprised at how great it works it to use a simple electric kitchen knife.
Nearly frozen and extremely sharp chef knife. Didn’t take as long as the cabbage for my kraut
 
I figured you had a good system because I know it is tough to slice some meats.
With stinking round steak, cooking it is the TOUGH part.

First of all I told the butcher turn all the round roasts and steaks into ground bif. For some reason this one escaped the grinder. I was dreading cooking it old school like my mom would where it basically boils in its own juices and cinched up. Tight. Ugg.

SO - I mean I just cooked it. I mean like that. BAM done. No longer. All that said, when I reheated it for lunch today I:

A) Preheated the air fryer on MAX HOT.
B) Put bread in toaster, ON.
C) Threw meat portion on a piece of foil in fryer basket and into the AF.
D) Racing with toast, toast out, slather with mayo
E) Meat out and slide onto toast.

The smell = amazing

Note: Yesterday I fried the chopped onion a bit first then threw in the chopped green bell pepper and as it fried threw in a concentrated broth, onion powder, garlic slurry, and that would flash off leaving flavor in the fry. Set that aside for the meat cook then mix it all back and put cheese on top and serve on the mayo toast hot and juicy
 
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WOW! I am stuffed just looking at the size of that plate of food! Yum. Round steak, oh yeah. A tough cut of beef that some really good old time cooks sure knew what to do with it. We always joked that my two grandmothers (Cajun/French and the Italian/Scicilian one) could likely take shoe / boot leather and cook it down to a masterpiece of a meal if they were forced to. I recall our Cajun/French grandmother often would take that same type of round steak, Pablo and she would make what she called a potato stew that us kids would just about fight over the last of the pot it was so good on a cold day served on some hot white rice beside a loaf of her home made fresh baked bread right out the oven. She would cut that steak into 1" square chunks. She then started by glazing onions, green peppers and the round steak cubes with chopped bacon bits in olive oil till near burned leaving a brown crispy layer on the bottom of her heavy cast iron pot to get a real good smokey flavor going. She then made her thick heavy brown gravy base (roux) in same pot and tossed in new potatoes and small amount of carrots and peas. She had all of that together in pot with some beef stock and consume to let it slow cook for hours smelling up the whole house on top of her natural gas stove. She would let it cook down until it turned into a really thick brown gravy meat/potato stew. You couldnt find any better in some fine restaraunts if you tried. Those old ladies sure knew how to take any tough cuts of meat and turn it into a meal to fight over and to remember.
 
I ate like a pig today.

I sure did too. Pigged out to celebrate a recent 40lb weight loss over three months time. A buddy I have not seen since my health issues began came over with a real treat for me today. He brought over some fried shrimp sandwiches on large seeded buns with a giant order of home/hand made onion rings and some old fashioned root beer that was to die for. We chowed down and watched some tv. He picked that food up from really old place. Since the 1950s we have had a continous family owned place near by called Frostop Restaruant that serves all kinds of seafood and also a similar menu like the Sonics of today. They are famous for their own formula rootbeer they even sell by the gallon or half gallon jugs.
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Doubled back on an Empanada place that I worked at yesterday out in Corona
Beef with cheese
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My pictures won't upload for some reason, but they were good
And not dripping with burning hot grease when you bite in, a rarity in the pastelitos space
Embossing the filling on the crust is a million dollar idea 👍
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Well...I texted the neighbor lady today and thanked her for the food last night.

Then I asked her if she wanted to get married. ;) Her reply was we did not need to marry, for her to bring me food.:LOL:
 
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