Beef Osso Buco and Fettucine. Learn It!

[flowerjohn]

My grandmother was born in 1900 in Naples, Italy. During the sixties I spent most of my time with her and she taught me this recipe that goes back to her grandmother, making it over a few hundred years old.
I am posting this here so that you might enjoy it yourself!



Two beef shanks. About four pounds in total. Olive oil, carrot, onion, celery , salt and pepper. Sauté on med high to brown the meat but don't burn the vegetables. About half way through, throw in two just bashed cloves of garlic. Capeesh?



Add two litres of passata, which for you white boys is puréed stewed tomatoes, available at the grocery store.



Break up one chunk of chicken builllion cube and throw it in.


Half teaspoon of sugar to cut the acidity down and salt pepper to taste. Now do not go heavy on salt because you can always add more later but you sure can't take it out.


When it's all lookin like that then make one of these



Gin and tonic. Just one!



Let it boil up and then simmer for a few hours after adding some fresh basil!

Before you start tasting you had better get into at least a few of these



Vodka and water to cleanse the palate so that you can taste properly while seasoning.



Taste with bread to get the real flavour and so that you can start eating because by now you are starving from the smell of it all.



Mini heirloom tomato salad with goat cheese, balsamic, olive oil, salt, pepper and basil.



Handmade egg Fettucine ( I will show you that another time), bread, beef shank, parmiggiano cheese and get to eating! 

Pleasure to show you this real old recipe and hope you enjoy it. It's a great way to spend a few hours in the kitchen. Cheers. J.




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[cojab]

Looks delicious.


And the food is probably good too!

[cortman]

That looks really tasty! Great post!

[Donald Garner]

John, that looks GREAT     Tks for sharing it with us.

[flowerjohn]

Tonight will be leftovers!


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[Wizard]

Thanks for the great pictures. A good recipe. My wife grew up on the "Hill" or Italian section of St. Louis. One of the top Italian restaurant areas in the country. Still lots of old FBI on the hill. 80 year old Foreign Born Italian that have been in the US for 70 years and still don't speak a word of English. The Osso Buco on the hill is made with Lamb Shanks.

[Oldfart9999]

Looks great John!!
Rodney

[caddyjoe77]

Yep, this is the one I was looking for!!

[flowerjohn]

Enjoy that one Joe. Glad you found it.


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