Probably not a weirdo but almost certainly from USA
Reminds me of one of my favorite ways to eat vanilla ice cream: with olive oil and a bit of sea salt. I get a lot of grief for this, but I learned about it ages ago in an old Cracked (.com) article and it is really good.
Lingonberry jam is a common addition to veal here in Germany. Probably would fit steak just fine.
I always smother those IKEA meatballs in lingonberry jam. Delicious.
Also, I’ve heard of Lakota dishes that involve bison steaks drizzled with a blueberry reduction or compote. I’ve always wanted to try that.
berries and honey is some paprika and salt away from BBQ sauce.
Bears eat trash
I’ve been adding maple syrup to dishes as a sweetener and it can turn out pretty great. Like the sautéed mushrooms I made last night:
- Dice up some onions (white or green both work well) and a hot thai pepper (or more to your preferred spice level). I also chopped a half a carrot up very finely.
- Heat a pan and add some oil and one piece of the onion you cut up. When it is sizzling, add the chopped stuff from the last step and sauté for a couple mins, then add the mushrooms.
- Stir it like once a minute. Allow the pieces to sear a bit but not burn. Adjust the temp to work this way.
- Add some salt, chili powder, worchestershire sauce, cook the water away. Do the same with some lemon juice. If I had to guess, I’d say I used like a teaspoon of each.
- Now add some maple syrup, just enough to cover the middle part before it spreads out and sizzles a lot. Stir it well and reduce it.
- Finally add some sort of milk. I used almond milk but I’m sure any will work. Not that much of it (not worth opening a can of coconut milk, though I bet it would work great if you have one already open), it should turn a brown colour and reduce pretty quickly, leaving a delicious creamy mushroom sauce that goes well with steak or on its own. Dairy free, too, if you used anything other than dairy milk.
I buy mushrooms each time I get groceries just to make this stuff.
A bear typed this.
I mean genuinely yes, this looks amazing.
I might have to come out of hibernation for a meal like this lol.
Sweet and savory do seem to be pretty complimentary flavors, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this was delicious.
Had some beef roast with a blueberry sauce, it was quite good.
I used to think bears were cool but not after seeing this. Everyone knows the best way to eat a steak is charred and covered in vanilla yogurt.
Everyone knows the best way to eat a steak is charred
YEAH!!!
and covered in vanilla yogurt.
Huh?!
That’s typically a plain yogurt though IIRC and not a sweetened or flavored one
Oh alright!
Blackberry sauce for steaks is somewhat common, and delicious.
Lingonberry jam is really popular with meat here in Sweden. Potatoes, meat, jam, and gravy.
I mean…
Also, chutney for boiled beef. With potatoes and leek, cabbage.
Idk if there’s a less appetizing word that can come before beef than boiled. Or any meat really.
Raw?
Siedfleisch.
Common where?
Wait… this one is spelled correctly?
What the fuck, have I been brainwashed or did I transfer timelines?
You’ve been brainwashed, the original bit was that everyone thought it was Berenstein, when it’s actually Berenstain as depicted in the image.
Ah, the alednaM tceffE
WTF you talking about? That’s clearly fake, it’s Berenstien.
I don’t think I’m supposed to be on this timeline, or maybe you aren’t.
I often feel like an interloper.
All that to still misspell Bärenstein
Bear and Stein
All this time it was hidden marketing for their wonderful clothing line, depicted in the image above.
Bear and Stein fashion.
Steakhouses and nicer restaurants, at least on the west coast of the US.
Guess I only go to shit restaurants, then.
I’ve eaten steaks at decent restaurants and haven’t really seen this. It doesn’t sound bad, just doesn’t seem as common as people here are suggesting.
My guess is that a couple places in Oregon go in on the Marionberry craze and do this, and that’s the bulk of OC’s experience.
I mean, teriyaki steak is awesome, it’s sweet/savory, so why not.
There’s this ancient Roman clay pot roast:
- Fill 1/3 with salt
- Add roast
- Fill the other 2/3, add lid
- roast it
- drizzle honey over the slices
It’s tasty, has a nice crust.
Edit: removed my wrong guess.
Salt is one of the oldest commodities. It has no shelf life and can be gathered at the edge of the ocean or dried lake, like a salt flat.
Mines, the Romans also had salt mines.
Roman children yearned for them.
Romans were the ones to create the term salary and salt was a commodity due to it’s use in preserving food.
I may be a bear…
Might be interesting to try
Good idea, do the steak on the barbecue
He’s totally hiding a bear in that writing desk.
Found the bear.
NotMaybe the gay kind.As long as it’s not slathered in honey, it’s probably pretty tasty. I’ve had steak with a drizzle of sweet glaze before and the flavors can complement one another nicely
Sounds very ancient Roman.
