La Daube Beef A La Mode Food

BOEUF à LA MODE

Steps:

• A day before cooking, salt the roast very well with kosher salt, at least twice as well as you feel comfortable doing. Season with the other spices, trying to distribute them more or less evenly. Use the full teaspoon of nutmeg if you like the flavor of nutmeg, the half if you are skeptical. Cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight.
• Bring the roast to room temperature before cooking. Heat oven to 300 degrees. In a heavy casserole, brown the roast on all sides in hot olive oil over medium heat. It should take about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove roast to a plate. Deglaze the pan with the onion, carrot, celery and tomato paste, and stir well, scraping the bottom with a wooden spoon. Add the garlic and the wine and cognac. Cook over high heat, boiling until reduced by half. Add the roast, pig's foot, bouquet garni, bay leaves, mushrooms and enough beef stock to cover roast about halfway up. Cook in oven, covered, 3 to 4 hours, until totally tender.
• If you are serving the following day, allow to cool overnight in its broth in the refrigerator. Then remove the fat that has settled on top, remove the roast, warm all the braising juices, the pig's foot and the vegetables, and then strain it through a fine sieve, so that only the glossy broth remains. If you are serving it the day you cook it, remove the finished roast, strain the broth and then skim the fat the best you can from its surface with a ladle.
• Taste the broth. If it tastes too acidic - as it may or may not, depending on your taste and on the wine used - add up to another cup or 2 of beef broth. The foot will have given it enough body to withstand being thinned. Do any other adjusting of seasoning you like. Remove the twine from the roast, and return it to its broth until ready to reheat and serve.
• Then reheat the boeuf in its flavorful sauce, remove to a cutting board and cut into thick slices, pouring sauce over all of them, and serving more at the table. Serves 6, heartily.
• I like this best with a big handful of gremolata, the Italian condiment, on top. It is not at all French, and not at all how this is traditionally served. But it is very delicious. To make it, combine the chopped parsley, finely chopped lemon zest and finely chopped garlic in a bowl, and add a very small pinch of coarse salt.

DAUBE A LA PROVENCALE

Steps:

• Marinate the beef in the red wine, vinegar, carrots and 1/2 of the onions for 6 hours or overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Remove the beef from the marinade (reserving the marinade) and dry gently with paper towels. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a heavy Dutch oven over medium heat and cook the bacon lardons until crisp. Remove the bacon and set aside, reserving the fat. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil to the bacon fat in the Dutch oven and brown the beef on all sides. Once the beef is browned, add in the reserved marinade, bacon lardons, the remaining onions, rosemary, thyme, garlic and bay leaves. Add 2 cups water and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer, then cover tightly and cook in the oven for 3 to 4 hours. Check the daube every hour and add a little more water if needed. Remove the herbs and serve the daube (be sure to reserve the sauce) with the Macaronade.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a gratin dish.
• Cook the pasta in salted water according to the package's instructions for al dente. Drain and toss with the cheese and daube sauce. Place the pasta in the gratin dish, and top with the breadcrumbs, sprinkle with salt and pepper and dot with the butter. Bake 15 minutes and serve with the daube.

LA DAUBE - BEEF A LA MODE

Steps:

• Make deep cuts in beef roast.
• Slice salt pork very thinly; rub with pepper and place into cuts.
• Cover meat with garlic, seasonings and chopped onion; rub in well and dredge with flour.
• Heat the bacon grease in a large pot or dutch oven, add sliced onion and brown.
• Remove onion, place meat in pot and cover with onions.
• Cover and cook slowly until well-browned on one side.
• Turn and brown the other side.
• Add vegetables and brown well.
• Add about 1/4 cup water,cover closely and simmer for three or more hours, adding more boiling water to prevent sticking.

BEEF 'A LA MODE

Steps:

• Season meat with salt and pepper.
• Put in bowl and pour wine over top.
• Let stand in refrigerator for 5 to 6 hours.
• Remove meat from wine and pat dry; discard the wine marinade.
• Sprinkle flour on meat and brown on both sides in the cooking oil.
• Remove meat and pour off fat.
• Add meat back into pan with all remaining ingredients.
• Bring back to a low boil and then turn to simmer and cook for 20 minutes or until veggies are tender.

DAUBE DE BOEUF A LA PROVENCALE

Steps:

• Mix olive oil through onions and marinate steak in refrigerator at least 6 hours, basting and turning meat several times.
• Scrape marinade off meat and reserve.
• Season meat lightly with salt and pepper; roll in flour and set aside on waxed paper.
• In a bowl toss marinade with tomatoes and mushrooms.
• Place 1/3 of mixed vegetables in bottom of 6 quart flame-proof casserole.
• Alternate layers of meat and vegetables, ending with vegetables.
• Pour in any left-over marinade.
• Cover, set over moderate heat and simmer 15 minutes.
• If vegetables have not rendered enough liquid to almost cover meat, add a little bouillon.
• Cover and simmer 1½-2 hours until meat is tender when pierced.
• Tip casserole, trim out fat and taste for seasoning.
• If liquid has not reduced and thickened, drain out into a saucepan and thicken with 1 Tbs cornstarch mixed with bouillon, boil 2 minutes, then pour into casserole.
• Chop or purée garlic and mash with capers.
• Beat in mustard.
• Gradually beat in olive oil to make a thick sauce.
• Stir in basil or parsley just before serving.