Kidney Stone

Sorry for your pain. This is as close as I want to be to a stone.


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Beef, Steak & Kidney Pie, Richard Fl.

The basis for this recipe that was originally just steak and mushrooms, was borrowed from a member of the BBQ-Bretheran Forum, Lunchman, and modified. Here is his comment. "This is a dish that my favorite restaurant, O'Connor's Restaurant & Bar in Worcester, MA serves and I usually wind up ordering when we eat there. Mind you, I'm Italian and my favorite place is an Irish restaurant - go figure."




INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 Lbs Bottom round roast or any stew meat, cut in cubes about an inch to an inch and a half thick (top round used today)
1 Lb Lamb Kidneys, Cleaned, Cut into 1 inch pieces.
1 Cup Milk, to soak kidneys
1 Large Onion, finely sliced
3 Cloves Garlic, finely sliced
3-4 Large Stop Light peppers, Diced. These are like a sweet jalapeño
1-2 cups Carrots, cut about an inch in length, uniform size
1-2 cups Celery, cut the same
6-8 oz Button Mushrooms (Baby Bella used in today's cook)
14.9 oz Guinness, or Beef Broth
1 Cup Cabernet Sauvignon
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4 Parts Flour
1 Part Panko
Salt & Pepper
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Thyme (2-3 tsp or fresh sprigs if available)
2 Tbs Rosemary,3-4 Fresh Sprigs if available
2 Tbs Parsley
1 Tbs Holy Smokin' Chipotle
1 Tbs Cajun Seasoning
1 Tbs Indian River Rainbow Pepper
1-2 Crushed Red Pepper Flakes
1 Pkg 8 BIG Flaky Biscuits
EVOO for braising beef and sauteing vegetables




PROCEDURE:
1 In a CI Dutch Oven, I used a 9 Qt, heated on grate of LBGE around 300°-350°F. add a few tablespoons of EVOO. Add the onions, celery, peppers & carrots and sauté until tender and translucent, around 5 minutes.
2 Remove the vegetables from the Dutch Oven and set aside in a bowl.
3 In the meantime, season some flour and Panko for dredging with salt and pepper. The panko adds some texture to the meat, but really gives the de glazing of the pan a great texture.
4 Add the meat to the Dutch Oven, browning it on all sides. You may need to do this in batches. Add EVOO as needed. When each batch of meat is browned remove with a slotted spoon and set aside with the veggies...
5 After the beef is browned, drain the kidneys, which have been in milk for 1/2 hour or so, save milk. Add the kidneys to the pan and cook until they turn white/grey. Remove to bowl.
6 I cooked everything on the stove and then when the entire pot was boiling took to BGE @350°F. direct on grate.
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10 When all the meat is browned add 1 cup wine and de glaze the pan then add Guinness and milk. Bring to a boil and now add back the veggies, except mushrooms, and meat. Add seasonings at this time get pot boiling and then drop temp of BGE to 200°-225°F, cover and let cook about 1 hour, stirring every 20 minutes or so. After the first hour add the mushrooms and cook another 30 minutes. DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE MUSHROOMS AS I ALMOST DID. If it is getting a little dry add some beef broth or water.
11 At this point I had to make a decision, remove to a large fireproof deep pie dish. and cover with pie crust and bake or either in the DO add some biscuits and set BGE up indirect legs down on plate setter and bring BGE up to 350°F or as I did this time, placed the pot of meat, texture at this time is kinda like a stew, in a 2 inch deep oval oven proof dish and added the biscuits. By now the BGE was up to 350°F and I used spacers between the plate setter and the oval dish. Cooked about 15 minutes for the biscuits to brown. Careful of temp, I started at 400°F and after 5 minutes the tops were starting to burn so dropped to 350°F.
12 This was a great meal and will do the same way next time. The biscuits add a nice change from pie crust.`


Servings: 6
Yield: 4-6 Servings

Recipe Type
Beef, Main Dish

Recipe Source
Source: BGE Forum Richard Fl, 2011/01/29

Yeah it's the ceramics that add more minerals in your diet. :evil:

I've got a jar full of them and that's not a lie.

Been there, done that; it's no fun, but the equipment that breaks the stones up with sound waves is a blessing. Litrotripsy, I believe is the name. It's amazing what this technology has done for kidney stones.
Drink lots of water in the future. They say that cranberry juice is good too, but that might be a myth.

Enjoy your egg, the egg is innocent of all charges. I was told that I ate too many peanuts--I'm guilty!
Your stones can be analyzed to see what food caused or could have contributed to the formation of stones.

Kidney stones are no fun at all......much unlike the Big Green Egg! No correlation between the two! :laugh:

Do you keep your jar o' stones on the mantle over the fireplace?

Yeah, I'm saving up for a lovely necklace. :woohoo:

I have been cooking on an egg for three years and my wife was diagnosed last week with a stone. I don't think it has anything to do with the egg. She read somewhere to drink 2oz of lemmon juice and olive oil and the stone will pass within 24 hours. Well I laughted and she was left with a bad taste in her mouth and still has the stone.
GL and hope everything is ok. (you too Bobby)

I agree. :pinch:

Don't feel bad. I hurt and didn't know why. Most of the time I would have a very restless night and got no sleep...I would go to the bathroom but, nothing...I would lay on the cool bathroom floor and roll in pain...I finally went to a urologist and he sent me to a radiologist who injected dye in me and took x-rays and found blockage between my kidney and my bladder and they admitted me for emergency surgery. It was removed using a flexible grabber by reaching up my urethra and threw my bladder up to my kidney. Then they pulled it out all with out cutting me open. Since then I pass them without much difficulty. :unsure:

I was having stones about every nine months for 8 years. I had a supply of oxy codone that helped me thru the pain. Finally I was sent to a urologist and he started me on some kind of potassium citrate pills and I have had no problem since. Bless that man.