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Category: Veal

Grilled Veal Chops, Tomatoes and Onions with Morel Sauce

Grilled Veal Chops, Tomatoes and Onions with Morel Sauce

I confess. I am not the greatest fan of the Grill. The primal urge to grill every piece of meat I come across in the summer isn’t my idea of perfection.  To me, not everything tastes better when it’s emerged from a session with smoke…

My next article for the Daily Meal has just posted! Read all about Wiener Schnitzel and get the original recipe!

What You Need to Know About Austrian Wiener Schnitzel For starters, it is never, ever served with noodles 5 July 11, 2015 | 06:57 PM  By Monte Mathews, Special Contributor    Photo Modified: Flickr / paulk / CC BY 4.0 You can bring some Austria into your home! If travel…

Pan-Grilled Veal Chops with Tomato-Blue Cheese Butter and Cherry Tomato Salad from Bruce Aidells’ "The Great Meat Cookbook"

Pan-Grilled Veal Chops with Tomato-Blue Cheese Butter and Cherry Tomato Salad from Bruce Aidells’ "The Great Meat Cookbook"

         I don’t think food should be controversial. It should be one of life’s great pleasures. To quote none other than Luciano Pavarotti “One of the nicest things about life is that we regularly have to stop whatever it is we are doing and devote…

Veal Short Ribs alla Marsala adapted from Chef Michael Ponzio. And my first encounter with Fresh Direct

Chef Michael Ponzio of Chicago’s Rosebud on Rush          When I saw a special for Veal Short Ribs at 4.99 a lb, it was like discovering a new protein!  I’d never even heard of the cut and never seen it on a restaurant menu.  I…

Tyler Florence’s California Osso Buco with a Classic Gremolata

         When I started cooking Osso Buco, it was a sumptuous meal on a beer budget.  The Veal Shanks at the center of the dish were afterthoughts at the butcher’s counter.  It’s hard to imagine but I think they ran about $4.99 a lb. at…

A Visit to Eataly yields a delicious Veal Pasta Sauce

        Eataly, in case you haven’t heard, is a 42,000 square foot grocery emporium that’s just opened at 200 Fifth Avenue.  And everything in it hails from or owes its existence to Italy from the on-premises cooking school to the rooftop beer garden.   The original…

A Quick and Easy Weeknight recipe: Orecchiette with a Veal, Caper and White Wine Sauce.

There are plenty of people I’d love to spend time cooking with: My heroes like Tyler Florence, who seems to make everything I like. Ina Garten, who makes everything look so effortless.  Thomas Keller who makes everything look well, so, complicated.  But I’d have to…

Osso Buco, the Perfect Dinner Party Fare for right now.

What’s wonderful about this delicious entrée is that it only improves with a day or two in the refrigerator. And you just reheat it, mash some potatoes, toss a salad and a truly special dinner is on the table in no time.              Osso Buco…