Whether as a steak, roast, burger or braise, beef is a versatile meat that’s easy to cook, especially with these simple recipes. We love our veal too, from ossobuco to tonnato.
Steak Tartare Let’s Eat Steak Tartare Together on my small group food & wine tour of Switzerland! As a reformed vegetarian, it’s odd that my favourite way to eat meat is raw, but I can rarely resist steak tartare when I see it on a menu (it sometimes also appears as beef tartare). It’s my […]
Fettuccine Bolognese Join my Italian Small Group Food & Wine Tour Finishing in Bologna! https://youtu.be/MNEYP5H1Ia0 Slow-cooked meat sauces, called ragùs, are made all over Italy, though the best known comes from Bologna in Emilia-Romagna and is the ancestor of Australia’s beloved ‘spag bol’. Not that it would ever be served with dried spaghetti in Emilia-Romagna […]
Steak Diane Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class Inspired by Damien Pignolet! I love food history almost as much as I love food. I always thought this dish of steak with a garlicky sauce was a French classic as it appears on many bistro menus. In fact, steak Diane originated in […]
Vitello Tonnato Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! This elegant Italian version of surf and turf hails from the north-western region of Piedmont. It is delicious, though when prepared correctly not particularly attractive, and its English description of ‘poached veal in tuna mayonnaise’ doesn’t do it justice […]
Asian Warm Beef Salad Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Asian home cooking class inspired by Cheong Liew! I love Asian flavours, but don’t have a lot of patience for cooking elaborate Asian dishes. So I love this Asian warm beef salad. It’s easy to toss together, looks impressive and is full of flavour. […]
Veal Schnitzel with Potato Salad Discover more delicious Swiss dishes on my small group food & wine tour of Switzerland! Veal schnitzel is such an easy classic, and the method works just as well with pork, chicken or turkey. You could use packet breadcrumbs at a pinch, but it’s much nicer with fresh crumbs made […]
Steak with Green Peppercorn Hollandaise Like this recipe? You’ll love my online British cooking class! I was served steak with green peppercorn hollandaise at the comfortable Kilchoan Hotel on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula on Scotland’s west coast. A simple hollandaise with pickled green peppercorns is such an easy way to dress up a steak with what’s […]
Swiss Barley Soup (Gerstensuppe) Discover more Swiss regional specialties on my small group food & wine tour of Switzerland! I always cook up a big pot of this delicious barley soup for Swiss National Day (1 August). It’s one of Franz’s favourite childhood memories – a sustaining dish full of vegetables and cured meat, that’s […]
Entrecôte Café de Paris Discover more delicious Swiss dishes on my small group food & wine tour of Switzerland! A compound butter is one of the easiest ways to turn a piece of meat into a meal. It can be as simple as anchovies, garlic or fresh herbs mixed through butter, or as complex as […]
Beef Tagliata Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! In Italy, steak is usually served sliced into strips, which I think looks much more appealing than a big slab of meat on the plate. It’s called bistecca tagliata – tagliata meaning ‘cut’. Beef tagliata is often served with […]
