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Today' we're cooking up some mashed potatoes
with steak and bourbon gravy.
It's real easy.
All right, first thing we're gonna do is
we're gonna boil up some taters, all right.
We've got about maybe 15 pounds of potatoes going on there.
You know all about boiling potatoes right?
So we want to get this started, oh yeah.
Now we're gonna be serving up some steaks.
This is all about the steaks, taters and gravy.
Now of course, we got some veges to chop
and cook, and prepare.
Here we've got three bulbs of garlic.
You know how to make roasted garlic right?
Just slice off the top of the bulb like that,
and you dredge it with some good olive oil.
We need these roasted garlic for the taters.
Man, you wanna take this step and do it.
Oh, it tastes real good.
Those mashed taters, all right.
Now, we'll put it in direct on the grill,
and we're just gonna cook.
Now our recipes are gonna be calling for
some sliced onion and some garlic.
You know all about cutting veges right?
We don't have to show you this.
Now, let's start preparing the gravy.
Got one of those roasting pans right there.
What we're gonna do to start off this gravy is
we got three or four slices of bacon, all right.
We wanna add some bacon to this gravy,
give it a nice smoky, salty taste of that bacon in there.
You wanna take the time to do this.
Man, here I've got some good cooking oil.
I'm gonna add it to the pan first
and this is so the bacon doesn't stick to the pan.
Go right in.
We're just gonna partially cook.
It takes a few minutes.
Simple enough right?
Now for this gravy, we need one stick of butter, all right.
Well melt it down.
Now if you've never had mashed potatoes,
steak and bourbon gravy, definitely gonna check this out.
It's so good eating at the pit.
Now here I've got some diced onions, all right.
Just about, maybe a half a cup, 3/4 cup.
We're gonna throw in there and we're gonna cook it down.
Look at that.
I also throwing in some mushrooms.
You got about half a pound of mushrooms going in there.
Look at that, add some salt.
Some fresh ground black peppercorn.
Smells good.
Here's the magic.
We got some bourbon.
You're gonna need to add about half a cup of bourbon.
Use your favorite bourbon, oh yeah.
Yes, it looks good.
Now we're gonna make a roux out of this, all right.
You know how to make that right?
You just add some flour, and just cook it just a little bit.
Yeah, become like a paste.
Oh yeah.
This is gonna help thicken your gravy too.
Now here I'm adding about five quartz
of beef stock, all right.
Use your favorite stock.
We need a lot of gravy for this recipe.
We're just gonna let it simmer a little bit.
Now we've got some fresh pit corn going
on the grill back there.
We're gonna be cooking that for about an hour.
We also have a piece of sirloin steak here.
This is about the tastiest piece of beef you can get,
nice piece of sirloin.
What we're gonna do with this.
We're gonna sear it on the grill
'cause we're gonna be adding this to the gravy.
Oh man, got a nice simmer going on there, yeah.
Just throw that steak on the grill right over the coals.
You wanna cook it about medium rare.
Now checking on those potatoes.
They're done perfect, oh yeah.
The steak ready to come off the grill.
Like I said, we got it medium rare.
What we're gonna do here is we're gonna chop up
this steak into small pieces.
Dice it up good.
All right, steak has been chopped.
Now what makes this not your mama's gravy
is it's gonna be full of chopped steak.
Oh yeah.
Lord have mercy, oh yeah.
Now we're gonna simmer this.
Oh man, maybe about 15, 20 minutes.
All right, now we're gonna make some steak sauce.
You gotta have good steak sauce for your steaks right?
So to get started, we're gonna throw one stick of butter
in this black iron pan to melt.
Here Big is throwing in some olive oil.
Into that, we're adding about one teaspoon of minced garlic.
Never enough garlic.
Then we'll season it up with a bit of salt
and some fresh black peppercorn.
Then we're gonna melt it down.
All right, now magic to this sauce is gonna be apple beer.
All right, now you can use what beer you want
but we're making an apple beer steak sauce here
so you throw in one bottle.
Man.
Now we got about one Vidalia onion here, nice sweet onion,
and we're gonna poach these onion rings in there for a bit.
Oh yeah, baby.
Now, our steak sauce is gonna have some mushrooms.
We're gonna be putting about a pound of
sliced mushrooms in there.
Look at that, cooked down a bit.
Now we're gonna thicken it.
You can use flour and water.
Here we've got some corn starch and water.
You know how to thicken your gravy and your sauces right?
Just add a little bit, keep stirring, heating it up,
and it will starting to thicken.
Simple enough.
Corns coming along fine.
Now it's time to make some mashed potatoes.
You want to drain off that water.
Man, we're having some steak and mashed potatoes.
All right, we're gonna mash these down here.
Of course these aren't ordinary mashed potatoes.
Heavy's throwing in those three bulbs of roasted garlic.
We're throwing in a stick of butter.
Here we've got some sour cream.
Of course some more salt, fresh ground black peppercorn.
Touch it with a little bit of milk.
You can make it as creamy or sticky as you want.
Man, you're hungry or what?
Now last but not least,
we've got a pound of shredded cheese going in,
and use your favorite cheese.
These taters are done.
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- [Narrator] Now one last thing.
Who wants a garlic bread?
All right, so we're gonna make up a spread here,
and to start out with three more sticks of butter.
Yeah, it's like we're doing a butter commercial here now.
That we were not.
Yeap, this spread needs three sticks of butter.
Because it's garlic bread,
you got one tablespoon of minced garlic.
Now this is a garlic butter spread
you definitely gotta check out.
Now to this spread, we're putting in one tablespoon
of Worcestershire sauce.
You're gonna need one tablespoon of your favorite hot sauce.
Here we'll add a teaspoon of black pepper.
Man, this ain't regular old garlic bread now.
A little pinch of salt.
Mix it up good.
Now on your favorite load of bread,
we're gonna be spreading it on thick.
Oh yeah.
You know all about making garlic bread right?
Now we'll top off each loaf with
some grated Parmesan cheese.
We'll throw 'em on the grill,
and toast 'em to the way you like 'em.
All right, nothing left to do now.
Cook up some steaks.
Here we got some Porterhouse going on.
Cook 'em the way you like.
Oh yeah.
The steaks are done.
I say it's time to eat.
Oh yeah.
Put some steak and bourbon gravy on those taters.
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