Swiss steak

Before long, the bottoms of my feet looked like freshly pounded Swiss steak.

Swiss steak should be tender enough to be eaten without a knife.

The featured entrée was something called Swiss steak.

The youngster digested that, which had to be easier than digesting the Swiss steak.

"I'm having Swiss steak, mushrooms, baked corn, and mashed potatoes for supper.

Cube steak is the usual meat used in producing Swiss steak by most home cooks.

So many people showed up to sample Mrs. Hansen's swiss steak that they had to wait in line for tables.

If her dad won, she had to come here for a week and cook dinner, all his favorites-pot roast, Swiss steak, chicken paprikash.

As we consumed the swiss steak, scalloped potatoes and salad, we talked of the news and his job (he managed a movie theater).

They'd served a variety of leftovers-meat loaf, macaroni and cheese, Swiss steak, and the taco casserole they'd served the night before.

Dinner ranges from $8.95 for seafood fettucini or Swiss Steak to $16 for Saturday salmon bake.

"My 'beef stroganoff' was a Swiss steak on noodles reminiscent of a hundred airline meals," the restaurant reviewer declared, in one of his kinder passages.

The remains of his lunch in a tin tray rested on the deck under the chair: a broken corn muffin, fragments of Swiss steak, and an empty coffee mug.

This process (of flouring, frying and simmering in gravy) is known as "smothering" and can be used for other tough cuts of meat, such as swiss steak.

Reporting from ringside, the sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote that "Greb handled Tunney like a butcher hammering a Swiss steak.

Pozharsky cutlets, Russia's answer to Swiss steak, combine minced veal and chicken in a soft, ovoid slab that Mr. Canelle perks up with pureed beets.

At a Traditions near Dayton, spaghetti is $4.49, barbecued chicken is $5.59, Swiss steak is $5.69 and top sirloin steak, one of the most expensive items, is $6.49.

Not so long ago, most people wandering through food shows would stop by the Harris Ranch display, only to turn away even before trying a taste of the company's microwave-ready Swiss steak and pot roast in gravy.

Swiss steak is typically made from relatively tough cuts of meat, such as the round, which have been pounded with a tenderizing hammer, or run through a set of bladed rollers to produce so-called "cube steak".

Swiss steak is a method of preparing meat, usually beef, by means of rolling or pounding, and then braising in a cooking pot of stewed tomatoes, either on a stove (cooker) or in an oven.

Familiar braised dishes include pot roast, Swiss steak, chicken cacciatore, goulash, Carbonade Flamande, coq au vin, sauerbraten, beef bourguignon and Moroccan tajines, among others.

Lovbiff ("leaf beef") looks like a Swiss steak, but it's actually beef tenderloin pounded to a thin sheet, spread with a mixture of Vasterbotten cheese, bread crumbs and herbs, then folded over several times to form a neat rectangle.

Only a diner familiar with the hotel for the last forty years would consider the selection exciting: French onion soup instead of bean, grilled salmon steak instead of fish and chips, chicken cordon bleu instead of chicken and dumplings, and roast prime rib instead of swiss steak.