Who doesn’t love meatballs (except vegans/vegetarians obviously)? 😀 I am sure that everyone have a family recipe you love, something your grandmother or your mom used to do, and which is one of your favorite comfort food ever 🙂 Today I am going to show my recipe. A cut I love for it is the…
Tag: beef
Beef Ribs in the Oven
This a great recipe for two reasons: it’s delicious, and the ribs are quite a cheap cut 🙂 To cook well the ribs, having them soft and still juicy, it’s not always easy. First of all you need a good quality beef, so ribs coming from an animal that has a good level of marbling….
Oxtail with Dark Beer Sauce
Here I am with a new recipe of a cut I really like: the beef tail 🙂 Yes, I use to like what maybe most of people don’t buy 😀 but this cut is really great, and it has such a great and intense flavor that few other cuts of the animal can match with…
Brasato di Manzo – Beef Braised in Red Wine
Here comes one of the most famous recipes in Italy 🙂 when some feasts come, this is one of those recipes people might consider. It’s a recipe where the quality of the ingredients will help a lot on the final result: the most famous version indeed is the “Brasato al Barolo”, as the name says…
Agnolotti al Brasato – Pasta Filled with Braised Beef
Christmas arrived and like every year I love to prepare the traditional good recipes of this feast 🙂 since I’m Italian I do Italian recipes, usually the ones of my area of origin, but from north to south in Italy there are countless traditional recipes for Christmas so sometimes I like to pick also recipes…
Lasagne alla Bolognese
Wonderful, juicy, perfumed, fulfilling, eye-catching, opulent…there are so many adjectives to describe this worldwide famous recipe 🙂 For me it’s simply a masterpiece of the Italian tradition, definitely one of its milestones, and if we consider that at its base there is the likewise great Ragù alla Bolognese, then it couldn’t be otherwise 🙂 Already…
Risotto alla Milanese (Traditional Recipe with Beef Bone Marrow)
This recipe is one of the most famous culinary symbols of the city of Milan. It’s another old recipe with a long history: the first verified recipes date back to the beginning of the XIX century (there are legends about its history that allegedly date back even to the XVI century, but in all the…
Pasta con Sugo di Peposo – Pasta with “Peposo” sauce (made with “leftovers”)
Rather than a recipe this is again another very good and easy re-use of the “leftovers“, while the main recipe for the “Peposo” you can find it in the previous post 🙂 (and sincerely these are not leftovers, when I prepare this kind of recipes I often cook something more to be able to prepare also…
Peposo – Traditional Tuscan Stew
This is a very tasty and juicy recipe, typical of Tuscany and more precisely of Florence area. It’s a very old recipe, and its complete name is “Peposo alla fornacina” or “Peposo dell’Impruneta“, because it seems it was created in the XV century by some brick cookers at the kilns situated at Impruneta, a town on…
Ossobuco alla Milanese – Veal/Beef Shank, Milan Style
The “Ossobuco alla Milanese” is absolutely one of my favorite recipes, I simply love it, and the particular taste given by the so called “gremolada” makes it special and delicious 🙂 (The gremolada is a mixture of lemon zest, parsley and garlic added in the end, which is the special ingredient absolutely needed in this recipe). Moreover…
Ököruszály leves – Hungarian Ox Tail Soup
This is my second post about traditional Hungarian recipes, following the previous Harcsapaprikás 🙂 This time it’s about a soup, the ox tail soup (Ököruszály leves in Hungarian). Well, that’s what was usually used in the past, when oxen were used as working animals and there were more of them, nowadays they are less and…
Manzo all’Olio – Beef in Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The “Manzo all’olio” is a very special recipe, one of those recipes that will make your Sunday lunch absolutely special 🙂 It’s a very old and famous traditional recipe typical of my origin area in Italy, more precisely from the town of Rovato, in the Franciacorta wine region, near to lake Iseo, but you can…
Polenta & Baccalá 