braise

Braised Beef Heart with Bone Marrow. Discuss.

January 9, 2019 By Janine Farzin 4 Comments

Braised beef heart with bone marrow, served with mashed potatoes and broth

As I mentioned here, heart is an organ with a lot of connective tissue that benefits from slow and low cooking. Braised Beef Heart with bone marrow is a simple dish that serves well.

And besides, as a busy mom, there is nothing that I like more than a slow and low braise. Dinner started late morning. Ready by mid-afternoon. And requiring very little work. Our home filled with the divine smell and anticipation of tender meat in a nourishing stock.

But I didn’t really know how to do it. The easiest meal ever.

No, seriously….

Long-simmered and tender Tripe with White Beans

January 9, 2018 By Janine Farzin Leave a Comment

Long-simmered and tender Tripe with White Beans is inspired by Marcella Hazan’s Honeycomb Tripe with Parmesan Cheese. I had previously processed and prepared the tripe with vinegar and salt, as I describe here. The remaining ingredients are nearly all pantry staples.

Hazan describes tripe in such an appealing way. “At one time tripe was so popular that restaurants used to specialize in it, preparing it in a score or more of of different ways. One of the reasons it has becomes such a rare item may be that people no longer know how to prepare it. When you know how to go about it, tripe rewards you with tenderness so succulent, and a fragrance so appetizing, that more expensive cuts of meat cannot match.”…

Our Dinner Schedule and Principles Offered by Weston A Price

December 12, 2017 By Janine Farzin 4 Comments

Dinner prep: a quick summertime visit to my community garden

Why do I feed these offal foods to my children? How could my husband agree to such treatment? What does this look like in practice, via our dinner schedule!? Ahhh, I thought you’d never ask….

Braised rabbit with offal

October 17, 2017 By Janine Farzin Leave a Comment

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, annual averages for 2015 time use surveys show women spending 37 minutes per day in ‘food and drink preparation.’ This is about 27% of all their household activities. This compares to 17 minutes spent by men; 20% of their total household activities. As I learned in Michael Pollan’s Cooked, this category basically counts up minutes spent opening packages and warming prepared food, assembling the prepared ingredients of a sandwich, and of course any actual chopping or preparation of food in a traditional sense that may occur.

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