I don't want to NOT do something, so I'm thinking of maybe an artichoke stuffed flank steak — along the lines
of braciole.
Not exact matches
Slow cooked in tomato sauce and red wine, our
braciole recipe is made with thin - sliced top round rolled around a filling
of Genoa salami, fresh breadcrumbs, parsley, basil and cheese.
The one that stuck in my mind is the
braciole (bra - cho - le)-- a flattened piece
of beef filled with a bread, cheese, raisin, pine nut stuffing, rolled up and braised for hours in a homemade red sauce.
I finally ordered a Lidia Bastianich cookbook — she's the absolute Queen
of Italian cooking — and she had this Braised Beef Rolls (
Braciole di Manzo) recipe waiting just for me.
On Sundays, my mom spent most
of her day slaving away over the stove making homemade sauce, meatballs, sausages and / or
braciole to serve over one gigantic bowl
of pasta that our family shared at our meal.
I remember one particular work dinner where an outoftowner made the mistake
of mentioning to the server (who was also either the owner or family
of the owner) that he enjoyed the
braciole at another local Italian eatery.
Braciole is small rounds
of beef, flattened to within an inch
of their lives, stuffed and rolled with all manner
of flavor goodness, quickly browned in a frying pan, and then simmered in tomato sauce for hours until it simply melts under the weight
of a fork.
Oh, and I had extra from Anne's recipe (even though I did reduce the proportions), so I just added it right into the
braciole sauce towards the end
of cooking.
And da googles, always trying to be smarter than the rest
of us, corrected me in its passive - aggressive way — ignoring my word completely — and popping up what turned out to be the correct spelling,
braciole.
It was more
of a situation
of, ignorance is bliss, than a determined tackling, as it wasn't until afterward that I discovered all the
braciole competition out there.
Meat - lovers would be thrilled with the
Braciole Beef Baguette, a sandwich
of seasoned roast beef, charred tomato, whole grain mustard, gouda, lettuce and onion while vegetarians can delight in The Quattro Fromaggio, a stonebaked pizza topped with mozzarella, cheddar, monterey jack, feta and parmesan cheese with fresh rosemary and extra virgin olive oil.
This recipe is similar to the Italian dish
braciole, except instead
of rolling up slices
of meat, we made a savory meatloaf with a mix
of ground beef and pork, panko breadcrumbs, and Italian herbs.
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Braciole Cook time: 10 hours Total time: 10 hours Ingredients 1 pound thinly sliced round steak 6 black olives 2 artichoke hearts 2 cloves
of garlic 2 teaspoons organic extra virgin olive oil juice
of half a lemon toothpicks olive oil spray 1 32 - ounce can Muir Glen Chunky Tomato Sauce Instructions Place olives, garlic, artichoke hearts, juice
of half a lemon and olive oil and Read More
Crockpot Beef
Braciole Cook time: 10 hours Total time: 10 hours Ingredients 1 pound thinly sliced round steak 6 black olives 2 artichoke hearts 2 cloves
of garlic 2 Read More
My surrogate Italian grandmother (aka my parents former next door neighbor) taught my mother and me how to make a huge pot
of Sunday gravy: meatballs, pork ribs, sausage and
braciole that simmers all day in a tomato and red wine sauce.