Category: Meat
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Beef Roast Simmered In Red Wine (Brasato Al Barolo)
Getting ahead of the holiday panic Thanksgiving and Christmas are stealthily creeping up on us, and are about to jump from behind a door and scream, “BOO!!!!”. I thought I’d head them off at the pass and get you thinking about an idea to make for the holidays already, so you won’t be so…
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Turkey: Make The Juiciest One Ever!
Why you should adopt holidays from other countries I can’t believe it’s the beginning of November already! What’s happened to the rest of the year? It feels as though I’ve just put away the New Year’s Celebration things, went to bed, and now I’ve woken up, it’s nearly Thanksgiving and Christmas time again!…
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Rosemary Leg of Lamb with Baked Tomatoes
Making the perfect roast leg of lamb Easter has been and gone, but roast leg of lamb is not just destined for that long weekend! This roasted lamb leg was what I actually cooked for my Italian side of the family on Easter Sunday. Now, it’s not because we actually celebrate any kind…
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Roasted Leg of Lamb
Time for a terrible confession The flowers (and weeds) are popping up in the garden right before our very eyes, and hoards of German and Scandinavian tourists are arriving in the area, so that means it’s Spring! We had my husband’s family over from Italy during the Easter weekend. I decided to make…
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Beef And Carrot Stew (Spezzatino )
With the nights getting colder, beef stew is very welcoming Winter’s rolling in. There’s frost on the grass in the mornings and ice on the car windows. Though, luckily where I live (at least in my opinion!), the temperature then rises to about 15 to 20 degrees C or so during the day.…
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Meatballs with Peas (Polpette con Piselli)
This recipe for polpette con piselli (meatballs with peas) is another great classic from my mother-in-law, Bianca. Friends of my husband who grew up eating these often at his parents’ place in Turin have been bugging me to put up this recipe for a while, so here it is! Polpette con piselli a wonderful “make…
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Rolatine (Bianca’s Stuffed Beef Rolls)
Why you should never volunteer for a school camp Normally, I would start a recipe post with a photo of the “dish of the day”, in this case “rolatine” that I am about to rave on about, but today, I’m starting with a photo taken of a beach just before the rain started.…
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Breaded Beef Fillets
The ultimate comfort meal Talk about a comfort meal! Well at least for me…….when I was growing up breaded beef fillets were my second favourite thing to eat for dinner (pizza was always number 1), which is just as well as it was served up for dinner every Wednesday night at the boarding school…
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Pasta al Ragù (Pasta With Meat Sauce)
Every now and then when I’m feeling especially energetic, I make a big batch of ragù and then freeze it in portions so that I have a impressive tasting, good-for-you pasta sauce to pull out of the freezer at the last minute if we have unexpected guests, or if I just don’t know…
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Bistecche alla Pizzaiola (Beef Filets with Tomato Sauce)
A delicious meal in a hurry that the whole family loves Bistecche alla Pizzaiola are a great do in a hurry meal that almost everybody in the family will like (of course, unless they’re vegetarian, hate beef, or hate tomato, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time). I…
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Sausages Braised in Tomato
What to do when you have too many sausages On Easter Monday we had hoards of friends descending on our garden for an annual Easter Egg Hunt (with chocolate eggs, of course! None of those namby-pamby decorated boiled eggs that have been sitting in the sun for an hour!) and pot-luck lunch. As…
