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| - | main_courses [2017/05/03 20:26] Leslie Cambias [Pork Braised With Milk, Bolognese] |
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| + | main_courses [2017/05/27 22:08] (current) Leslie Cambias [Grillades] |
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| *Two or three onions, depending on size, chopped | |
| *Four garlic cloves, minced | |
| * Two carrots and two stalks of celery, both | |
| * Vegetable oil to cook the vegetables | |
| * Salt and pepper | |
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| Sear the meat in a Dutch oven or large saute pan filmed with oil. When browned on all sides, remove the meat, then cook the vegetables until softened. In a separate pan make a roux, using 1 1/2 tablespoons of flour and a tablespoon of butter. Cook to a light brown. Add a little stock to make a paste, then slowly dissolve the roux paste with one and one half cups of stock and one cup of white wine, whisking all the while. Add ½ teaspoon of dried tarragon, ½ teaspoon of powdered thyme, ½ teaspoon of powdered bay leaf, 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper to taste. | |
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| Optionally, it can be enriched with pre-cooked small onions, mushrooms, celery slices, carrot slices, potato, etc., in order to make it into a traditional stew. | |
| Serve with rice, non -sweet waffles or wide noodles. Garnish with chopped parsley. Cranberry jelly and chutney go well with this concoction. Dumplings, poached in stock and finished in the sauce, are an excellent accompaniment. | |
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| //This is something we all grew up with, except that it was then made then with veal rather than beef. CC talked about her grandfather Street’s family having this on the table every day, except Friday. That was fast day, so they had [[Seafood#Redfish Courtbouillon]]. This was in addition to whatever they were having for dinner that day. They were creatures of habit | |
| The usual meat for this is beef round, thinly cut and trimmed of fat and odd bits. We use a lean beef rump or shoulder roast and slice it across the grain | |
| Cook chopped onion, sweet pepper, garlic, thyme, bayleaf, parsley, salt and pepper. Make a brown roux with 2 tablespoons of flour, add to the veggies. Put in peeled, seeded and chopped tomatoes or canned equivalent. Add one tablespoon of tomato paste and about 2 cups of beef stock. Return the meat to the pan, cover with sauce and cook on a very low fire until the meat is very tender, about 1 hour. Never let the meat boil, cook it at just a very slow simmer – no big bubbles. It can be | |
| Grillades freeze well. | |
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| Try pulverizing a portion of the meat in the processor. This acts as another binder and helps in keeping the ground meat from cooking up too ‘pebbly’. The meat loaf mix that is sold in supermarkets is usually beef, pork and purported veal. This is a good basic mix. You can make your own mixes for various dishes, for instance beef and lamb (think gyro) to stretch the expensive lamb. | |
| * 2 lbs. of ground beef or meatloaf mix (should be 2 beef : 1 pork : 1 veal.) | |
| * 1 large whole onion and 1 stalk of celery- both chopped and cooked, with 2 or 3 minced garlic cloves added late in | |
| the cooking. | |
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| excess milk with the meat. | |
| * Chopped parsley and other herbs, thyme, bayleaf, rosemary, etc. | |
| * 2 eggs, beaten with salt and pepper. | |