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Breast of Veal ala BGE
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stike
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first, this photo is proof that i am simultaneously the best DAD in the world, and the worst parent.
my son's dinner saturday night. :unsure:
sunday we tried a stuffed breast of veal. this thing was less than 3 bucks a pound. about 8+ dollars for four adult servings, easily. Nice cook. i will do this again.
please excuse the pic quality, as these are from an iPhone
fixings for the stuffing
9 or 10 ounces of washed baby spinach, black olives, half an onion, some cheapo premade (storebought!) mini-meatballs (left over from a run of moink balls for thursday and saturday cooks), and the ends off of one of my pancettas from april.
the veal breast actually came with a pocket already cut, but i had to extend it greatly, as it was kind of a 'ho-hum' attempt by the butcher. work a filet knife in there and really open it up, take it within maybe a half inch of the edges
over a fire (about 400 dome) on a raised grid, with grape vine and a small amount of hickory, until you get some nice color
while thats' on, toss the pancetta in with the diced meatballs, then add onion, then chopped olives, then finally the spinach, til wilted
let the meat rest while the stuffing cools a bit
(the real test of a brewery is their pils. nothing to hide behind)
then stuff it good, packing it in there quite firmly. sew it shut or pin with skewers. I threaded butcher's twine, but it can pull out. go around a rib if you can. (it looked frankly like i had made my own homemade baseball glove). put it to braise in a small roasting pan, with a few carrots, couple stalks of celery, quartered onion, thyme, pepper
add wine (i used red, since we had no cheap-o white on hand), cover, and let it simmer in a 350-400 degree egg for two hours.
(the red wine dyes everything s little purple-brown. would be fancier-schmancier with white wine)
pull and let rest about 15 minutes.
and (sad photo, here, sorry). slice between the ribs. you could slide the ribs out if you really wanted and then slice however thick you wanted.
serve with a nice bottle of wine that your friends who know wine gave to you the last time they visited, but don't tell anyone it was a gift, thereby making it look like you know all about wine when you really don't
my son's dinner saturday night. :unsure:
sunday we tried a stuffed breast of veal. this thing was less than 3 bucks a pound. about 8+ dollars for four adult servings, easily. Nice cook. i will do this again.
please excuse the pic quality, as these are from an iPhone
fixings for the stuffing
9 or 10 ounces of washed baby spinach, black olives, half an onion, some cheapo premade (storebought!) mini-meatballs (left over from a run of moink balls for thursday and saturday cooks), and the ends off of one of my pancettas from april.
the veal breast actually came with a pocket already cut, but i had to extend it greatly, as it was kind of a 'ho-hum' attempt by the butcher. work a filet knife in there and really open it up, take it within maybe a half inch of the edges
over a fire (about 400 dome) on a raised grid, with grape vine and a small amount of hickory, until you get some nice color
while thats' on, toss the pancetta in with the diced meatballs, then add onion, then chopped olives, then finally the spinach, til wilted
let the meat rest while the stuffing cools a bit
(the real test of a brewery is their pils. nothing to hide behind)
then stuff it good, packing it in there quite firmly. sew it shut or pin with skewers. I threaded butcher's twine, but it can pull out. go around a rib if you can. (it looked frankly like i had made my own homemade baseball glove). put it to braise in a small roasting pan, with a few carrots, couple stalks of celery, quartered onion, thyme, pepper
add wine (i used red, since we had no cheap-o white on hand), cover, and let it simmer in a 350-400 degree egg for two hours.
(the red wine dyes everything s little purple-brown. would be fancier-schmancier with white wine)
pull and let rest about 15 minutes.
and (sad photo, here, sorry). slice between the ribs. you could slide the ribs out if you really wanted and then slice however thick you wanted.
serve with a nice bottle of wine that your friends who know wine gave to you the last time they visited, but don't tell anyone it was a gift, thereby making it look like you know all about wine when you really don't
ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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Wow...
Great cook...
very very nice...
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Very cool that you found a veal breast, can't get those around here. Nice call on the Chardonnay - red wine usually pairs with veal, but personally, I drink what I like, so I am with you on your choice.
Yes, you are a terrible dad! But, hey, it's still better than fast food.Happily egging on my original large BGE since 1996... now the owner of 5 eggs. Call me crazy, everyone else does!
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Man, that veal looks tasty
Great pics for an iphone
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Nice draw on the bones. Bet you didn't need a knife for that fall apart comfort food.
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you had me drooling right up to the meatballs LOL kidding you that looks great even if the pics are no better than mine!!
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the meatballs are just beef and spices, really. there's no mystery meat or crazy 'chemicals' in them. ideally you'd use italian sausage, but instead of going out and getting some, i used the cheap-o meat-a-balls.ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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no need for a knife. in fact, you know those little white cartilage 'bones' in ribs? you could slide them out entirely. could even pull the ribs out. but i just sliced between them for easier servinged egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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i threw a little photoshop at them to brighten them. they display brighter on the iPhone. not sure why so dark when i yank them onto my machineed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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oh, i'm not a terrible dad. he LOVED it. terrible parent, sure :laugh:ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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looks good. Nice quality food!
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Wow! That looks really good. We don't see veal in our grocers down here, but then I would be happy with the meat balls! :laugh:
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Stike, the old creole chefs down here made something called a veal pocket. It was A veal shoulder with the blade removed....stuffed with oyster dressing and baked. One of the most delicious things I ever ate. However, Your cut appears tpo be of the rib variety. It sure looks outstanding, wherever it came from.
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Really great meal! Full of nice fresh flavors that are layered. Love that.Molly
Colorado Springs
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wow first you gave the kid bacon and store bought meatballs covered in sugar sauce, then you exposed him to that piece of meat that hung in your basement for six weeks gathering who knows how much bacteria, then you stuffed it inside a piece of meat you sliced with a knife exposing it to yet more bacteria, then you probably didn't even take it to 135...... :laugh:
Looks great though. If he gets sick I'm calling dss.... -
he won't get sick. he's more man than most of the guys here :laugh:ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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layered, literally and figuratively. yeah, it was great. very mild flavor, so the stuffing plays a big role in it all. the veal got great color even while braising, too. beautiful looking cut, despite the muddy fuzzy pics.
thx, cbed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
yeah, it's from the ribs, sorta just under where the brisket might be, or a little back of it.
great flavor, but mild.
thx for the thumbs-up.ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
no veal at all? i hadn't seen the breast before, but we have shoulder and the more typical cutsed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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EEEWWWWW! I saw a blue spot on the meat.It must have been rancid! :laugh: AWESOME, as usual my friend!
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Outstanding! I have done a couple of veal breasts and need to do another one soon.
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veggie-dye usda stamp...
(entirely edible)ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
was a good cook for a sunday.
thanksed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
It looks excellent. I have never seen a whole one. Love to try one as a low and slow.
Steve
Caledon, ON
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i just finished it for lunch. it is essentially a rib cook after all. i hit it with smoke, and then braised it. call it the 1-2-0 method :laugh:ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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