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Welcome to the new Lobel’s Culinary Club.

In the years since we launched our Web site and online butcher shop, the Lobel’s Culinary Club has become the cornerstone of our communications with our customers old and new. Our e-mails span the latest news about products and promotions to help you plan peak dining experiences for family meals, special events, and casual entertaining.

A fundamental part of the Culinary Club content comes from our unique perspective as butchers on meat handling and preparation. And while there are many recipes to share, we want to help you go beyond specific recipes to a wider world of in-depth explorations of cooking techniques. When you understand the fundamentals, you are free to invent your own culinary masterpieces.

We believe the more you know about preparing the finest meat money can buy, the more you will enjoy serving it to your family and friends.

With the launch of our expanded Culinary Club, we’ve created a living archive of knowledge that is gleaned from past e-mails and will grow with future e-mails.

Within the Culinary Club, we hope you’ll find numerous and useful resources to enhance your confidence in preparing the finest and freshest meats available, and ensure your absolute delight with the results.

For your dining pleasure,

lobels Signature

Stanley, David, Mark, and Evan Lobel

Gravy: The Crowning Touch

On November 12,2013 In autumn , poultry , recipes & techniques , roasting , thanksgiving

Nowadays, you can cook a turkey just about any way you want. We have the technology and equipment readily at our disposal, from traditional roasting—radiant or convection—to smoking, deep-frying, and even boiling.

But, if your goal is to bathe just about everything on your Thanksgiving dinner plate with a silky rich, light-brown layer of homemade turkey gravy, then you need to narrow your choices and follow tradition: oven-roast the turkey. As a side benefit, your home will fill with the signature aromas of our annual Thanksgiving traditions.

Roasting—particularly roasting a stuffed turkey—melds the varying flavor components of seasonings on and within the turkey and captures them for transformation into the nectar of Thanksgiving dinner.

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The Straight and Narrow: Asparagus

On March 19,2013 In recipes & techniques , spring , food history , roasting

Cultivated since ancient times, asparagus is a harbinger of spring virtually worldwide. Whether stir-fried in China, bathed in Hollandaise sauce in Germany or the Netherlands, or grilled over a wood fire on the California coast, asparagus is not only delicious, it is loaded with nutrients, antioxidants, and fiber.

Asparagus

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Everything Thanksgiving

On November 1,2012 In ask the butcher , entertaining , poultry , roasting , thanksgiving , videos , holidays

In many American families, Thanksgiving is the biggest and grandest meal of the year. Traditions abound, from what is served and what dishes are used to who sits where during the meal. Over the years, we’ve offered our customers a lot of advice about Thanksgiving dinner preparation. So here is a round-up of past posts for your Thanksgiving-dinner-cooking convenience!

Turkey

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Who Would Have Thought? Great Grilling Tools

On May 20,2012 In barbecue , grilling , recipes & techniques , roasting , smoking , cooking tools

When home grilling began its rocket-rise in popularity all over the U.S. in the post-war 50s, everybody was sort of feeling their way along about the special do-it-yourself requirements of cooking over a hot fire. That meant adapting tools that were common to indoor food preparation. As necessity is the mother of invention, reaching and working over a wide, flat cooking surface required extension, which gave us long-handled tongs, spatulas, and forks. It also required more protection than potholders could provide, giving rise to heat-resistant gloves and mitts.

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How To: Pan-Roast a Steak Video

On February 7,2012 In beef , entertaining , recipes & techniques , roasting , videos

When you start with a great raw steak, any way you choose to do it, you’ll wind up with a great-tasting cooked steak. In this video, Mark Lobel walks you through how to pan roast a steak. Pan roasting is a two-stage method incorporating high-heat searing on the stove top and lower-temperature finishing in the oven. A steak seared in a hot pan develops an intensely flavorful caramelized crust that seals in juices that simply burst in your mouth with every bite.

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Your Complete Holiday Roast Resource

On December 6,2011 In beef , christmas , entertaining , hanukkah , roasting , videos , holidays

At this time of year, it seems that everyone is planning for that big holiday dinner. Some of the most frequent questions we get are about rib roasts: How big? How many servings? How long to roast? What temperature?

So we’ve assembled just about everything we could think of to tell you about planning and preparing one of our rib roasts for your holiday extravaganza.

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New Video! How To: Roast a Turkey

On November 8,2011 In holidays , poultry , roasting , thanksgiving , videos , turkey

Thanksgiving is coming… are you confident in your turkey-roasting abilities? In this how-to video tutorial, David Lobel breaks it down for you, step by step.

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Great Meals, No Matter the Weather

On October 10,2011 In autumn , entertaining , recipes & techniques , recipes & techniques , winter , roasting , grilling , summer , spring , beef

As summer fades into autumn, our focus on meal planning begins its own transition. It's that time of year when we're reluctant to give up our grilling tongs and wood chips, yet our thoughts turn to the seasonal harvest and our appetites build for meals offering comfort and warmth.

So, take advantage of any good weather the season offers. However, it’s a good idea to build menus around dishes that can be prepared outdoors or indoors if a change in the weather requires a change in your cooking and entertaining game plan.

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Gravy: The Crowning Touch

The Straight and Narrow: Asparagus

Everything Thanksgiving

Who Would Have Thought? Great Grilling Tools

How To: Pan-Roast a Steak Video

Your Complete Holiday Roast Resource

New Video! How To: Roast a Turkey

Great Meals, No Matter the Weather