well they have been serving the finest
steaks in Houston for more than 40 years
but when you dine here you also get a
little bit of Texas history sure do and
now they can add Houston Hart's best
steakhouse to their long list of
recognitions we are talking about the
taste of Texas owners 9 and Ed Hendy are
here to accept the award welcome to
Houston life thank you congratulations
clearly since 1977 you've been around
clearly you are doing something right
what is it about the taste of Texas that
sets it apart well I think the heart of
Texas is hospitality
and it's been such an honor to serve
Houston for 40 years and what an honor
to win this award well we're glad that
you're here and we do have to say you
know you guys do this field trip for 4th
graders which my fourth grader just did
at the end of it
that was his family trip gosh I love
that yes we bring fourth graders through
the restaurant to see our historical
documents and then we take them in the
freezer and that's what they love those
then don't think you rattlesnake bites
too you know we tell them that the flow
tongue or rattlesnake what's great about
that NIDA gets to not only talk to about
Texas history
but they get to see a family business
exactly and and one of the reasons this
happened a teacher actually called us
and said the corporation fast food place
something about a big em in front would
not take the children anymore because of
insurance reasons will you take them
well we're here's that here's the Board
of Directors
yeah and that's how this started in
matter how many kids have you done four
hundred thousand fourth graders have
toured the taste of Texas in 38 years
you for doing that because that's still
involved in the community and I think
that that is what's so great okay we're
gonna get to the meat and the potatoes I
guess right okay uh-huh
so how to buy and what these cuts of
meat are of course we've all heard them
but what do they look like and what do
we buy well the biggest thing we like to
share with our customers we do this all
the time our customers you can come back
to the kitchen we'll show you how to
cook a steak because everybody's gone
with had friends over and they get done
they cook the steak the pillow-fighting
like it just right yeah let us teach you
and are your audience how to properly
select a steak and the season of steak
and then how to cook a steak and how to
add to it it's really fun the first
thing is the different cuts of meat you
might recognize the the t-bone here huh
a beautiful cut of meat of course Flay
on one side strip on the other and this
is about 20 ounces and then the
granddaddy is the porterhouse now 32
ounces in a gorgeous with about
one-third of the steak is filet and
about the other two-thirds is strip we
need to pay attention to the marbling
right is that what you have to look at
do you want to see a number of things
when you're out buying steaks and we
talked about this in our in our seminar
and it's in our our cookbook by the way
there's a big section on steak school
you want to be able to talk to the
butcher and say look I've got some
friends coming over and I want to make
it really great or I got family coming
over I'm gonna do a pot roast or a
standing rib roast for Christmas or
whatever you do talk to the butcher find
out what shade and go for the marbling
the little white dots that are in the
muscle the more marbling the higher
quality is gonna be the better flavor
you're gonna have so so the selection of
the meat obviously that's critical but
also the cooking and the plating the
presentation that is a huge part of of
what you do absolutely this starts with
first of all get the right steak and
then secondly let's season it well this
is a gorgeous one yeah it's our tomahawk
steak it's about 40 ounces all together
let's season one up okay
okay I'll put on this plate you can do
this alright alright we start with a
coarse salt and that's actually like a
kosher salt you could also use sea salt
a Hawaiian sea salt of course is dark
it's fine you're just trying to get a
coarse flake of salt on there now you
see let's be a little more I'll be a
little bit more aggressive okay you want
to really get some flavor in there salt
steak needs salt okay then a coarse
black pepper is just perfect for it
little black pepper around the outside
of it cousin how much you like I
personally like a lot of pepper on mine
if you want to add lemon pepper which is
like a mccormick seasoning okay add that
in there too yeah yeah a net Annina
while you and Courtney continue
seasoning that we're gonna remind our
viewers that if they would like to take
a look at the full menu they can check
out taste of Texas calm
don't forget you got to leave room for
dessert oh yeah pecan pie is like insane
congratulations we'd love to have you
all right when we come back we'll
announce our other Houston Hearts Award
winners in the dining category don't go
away
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