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New York Strip and Haskap Berries
Lana: "I got strip loin. And haskap berry. They're really quite sweet. Sort of like an elongated blueberry."
Lana: "I'm going to do a New York strip with Pommes Anna with beef tallow."
Lana (during cooking): "I think the secret is keep it simple. I mean, that's always been my thing. So I'm gonna grill my strip, but right now I'm making some pommes anna. You know, a little meat and potato moment, if you will. I've never heard of haskap berries before. They're kind of like a blueberry and a raspberry. They're a little bit tart, but there is some nice natural sweetness to the berries. I think that those flavors will meld really nicely with the steak as a glaze on the beef. Right now, I'm just smoking my berries and already they're picking up flavors."
Lana: "My jus is reducing. There's three different sauces. I have the smoked berry jus. (That's berry juice and honey. ) My glaze for my steak, and then a berry condiment. Smells like sage. I'm a sage girl. What can I say? I burn sage when the vibe's not right. I have sage tattooed on me. So I'm going to pull the meat out, aiming for a little below medium rare."
Presenting to Judges
"I wanted to keep it very simple. Meat and potatoes. So I grilled the steak with a haskap and honey glaze. A little Pommes Anna, there is a condiment of haskap berries and a little bit of sage, and then the sauce is smoked haskap berry jus."
Judges
"I really love what she did with the sauce and smoking it. I love the savory element of the onion and garlic in the condiment. I think it paired really nicely with the beef."
"I would have maybe liked to see more berry, though, just without, like, all the aromatics and different things on it. "
"Yeah. I actually found the sage to be the thing that was overpowering."
"I found the meat to be over rested - just cooked way too far in advance. It was seasoned great, but the potato was a bit of a disconnect."
Speaker 1: 02:56
It was dry, it was thin. It felt to me like an afterthought.
