Beef and Veal; more in Slow Cooker, Main Dishes

Recipes using Beef and Ground Beef as the main feature. For more recipes, such as stir-fries or pasta dishes using beef and ground beef please check out those categories.

Mediterranean Meat Loaf; the update

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The lower cabinets are finished! Once mon mari got started on the cabinet doors, and set up his ‘assembly line’ things went pretty quickly – relatively speaking. He finished the doors and drawer fronts for the rest of the lower cabinets. This was last June: And this is today:   There is a difference in … Continue reading…

Beef Braised in Chianti; Cooking with Wine

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Did I ever mention that I often cook with wine? Not cooking wine…. One should never, ever cook with a wine not fit to drink. One can get perfectly quaffable wines to use in cooking without uncorking the Grand Crus. Wine tenderizes the meat, adds flavors and results in fantastic sauces. I do like to … Continue reading…

Yorkshire Pudding and The finer points of Fox Hunting

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To keep you entertained whilst I’m in the mountains… Here’s one from the archives: Fox Hunting is no longer legal in Britain. It is, of course, still perfectly legal to put on the pretty red jackets and go madly galloping across the countryside on horses, blowing horns. And, of course, it’s still perfectly legal to … Continue reading…

Burgers Stuffed with Goat Cheese; the search continues

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Burgers Stuffed with Goat Cheese You may recall my ongoing battle of the boxes; my continuous, never-ending search to find stuff. Last weekend it was the search for my kitchen scale, which I found under a pile of collapsed clothing boxes. That inspired me to repack the clothing boxes into something a bit sturdier.  Since … Continue reading…

Braised Beef Provençal; Are these cops real?

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Beef Provencal Does anyone know any real cops? Are they witty, kind and sensitive like the gang on 'Law and Order, SVU'? Or are they inarticulate, foul-mouthed thugs/idiots like the crew on 'The Wire'? If there is anything in between these two gross over-characterizations, it's not on the telly… At least, not on mine. If … Continue reading…

Filet Mignon with Shallot and Red Wine Reduction; Neat Meat

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Filet Mignon with Shallot and Red Wine Reduction Revelation number 1: French butchers go through string as fast as French bureaucrats go through paper. It has long been accepted, at least by those of us who carry around thick folders stuffed full of numerous copies of document wherever we go, (aka: non-EU French residents) that … Continue reading…

Pizza Steak and the Weekly Menu Planner

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I saw pork balls at the market today. No, not the kind one makes with ground pork and spices that often appear on Chinese buffets. The other kind. They were in between the horse steaks and the goat. One of the things that we can’t get here, or, at least, not easily, is really good, … Continue reading…