Welcome to The Pioneer Woman Cookbook Club! This month, we're featuring chef, actor, and now author Gabriel "Gator" Guilbeau's premier cookbook Yellowstone: The Official Dutton Ranch Family Cookbook. As the head of craft services on the hit television show Yellowstone, the chef is dishing about life on set and sharing how to make one character's namesake steak recipe.
Have you ever dreamt of pulling up a chair to the Dutton family dinner table? If you've tuned into the hit series Yellowstone as loyally as Ree Drummond has through the years, you probably have imagined what it'd be like to chow down on a juicy ribeye elbows length away from main characters John Dutton or his grown children Beth and Kayce. That dream may seem farfetched, but it isn't so much now that chef-turned actor Gabriel "Gator" Guilbeau is giving everyone the chance to eat like a Dutton with the official Yellowstone cookbook.
Just ask the Drummonds—being a cowboy requires lots of fuel, and that's exactly what Gator, as he's called on and off set, has been providing the team since he joined Yellowstone during their first season of filming. "We've got to get the people fed, so a lot of my career has been based on the ability to get to these places, and not be afraid to bring a table and a tent and a couple of ice chests out to the middle of nowhere and make people delicious food right in front of them," he says. Sometimes Gator is grilling for 20 people on the side of a mountain and other times he's cooking for upwards of 500 "in the middle of a field or pasture somewhere." If it sounds rugged, unpredictable, and well, a lot like life on the show, that's because it is.
Gator joined the Yellowstone crew as the onsite caterer, not knowing that his behind-the-scenes job would evolve into a character on the show. But show creator Taylor Sheridan had other plans for the chef. Now, Gator makes regular appearances in the series as the ranch's trusty cook. The best part? Gator gets to play himself, name and all. He's made Beth her famous vodka-ice cream "smoothie" and served John octopus in another memorable scene. When it came to write his premier book, Gator certainly couldn't leave out those iconic recipes, but the cookbook is brimming with other dishes that reflect Gator's own roots.
Authentic Cajun gumbo, fried shrimp, dirty rice, corn maque choux—those are some of Gator (and the hungry crew he's feeding's) all-time favorites. But there's plenty of quintessential cowboy food in the book, too, one recipe being the cast iron-seared ribeye we've included here.
Unsurprisingly, steak is a common indulgence on the Yellowstone set, but it's also one of the first things Gator ever learned to cook growing up. "My daddy and I would have cookouts on the weekend, and that's what we liked to eat," says Gator. "We liked to eat ribeyes. In fact, it’s still what I like to eat." And boy, does Gator cook a good one.
On set he's cooking steaks nearly every single day and has even watched members of the crew devour them with their hands, no fork or knife in sight. "It's almost a right of passage being part of the Yellowstone cast and crew," he says. "At some point, you've gotta eat a steak with your hands."
Gator's advice for cooking John's Perfect Rib Eye Steak is to take the meat out of the fridge early and salt it well. He also utilizes a special trick he learned cooking with his dad years ago: sprinkle a little coarse sugar over the steak. "It provides an extra layer of caramelization," he says. "And a real good steak is all about the crust."
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