Nov 10, 2007

Roast Veal And Mashed Potatoes





Tasty Roast Veal or Beef:

Ingredients:

-3 Pound (about 1.5 KG) fillet of beef prepared by your butcher shop, tied with cooking thread.

- Crushed Garlic

-Chopped Parsley

-Salt, Black Pepper and Allspice

-Sliced Carrots

-Sliced Onions

-Cooking oil

-Water

Wash the beef, cut slits ½ inch deep in it. Mix the crushed garlic with the chopped parsley and stuff in the little slits you made in the beef fillet. Fry in hot oil from all sides. This step will keep the meat moist and juicy from the inside. Add sliced onions. Add slices carrots. Add your spices. Add water and let cook for at least 1.5 hours until the liquid is half way evaporated.

Slice the fillet into ¾ inch slices. Put back in the pot to keep it warm. Plate your meat and veggies with the broth and serve hot with mashed potatoes on the side.

Mashed Potatoes

-2 pounds (1 Kilo) potatoes. I cook it with the peel, this gives it a much better taste and appeal-just like fancy restaurants!

-Wash the potatoes, Boil and drain

-1/2 a cup or 2/3 of a cup Hot milk- Sometimes I use powdered milk.

-Butter

-Salt

Cut up the potatoes. Mash it. I like it in chunks so I do not mash it really fine. I use a mash potato masher or a big fork to get it the way I like it.

Add hot milk, salt and butter and keep on mashing until you get it the consistency you like.

Serve Hot!!

Simply Delicious!!



4 comments:

No_Angel said...

just to kick it up a notch
since beef is in general crappy here i would recommend getting a nice piece of shilbayeh (thats the meat from the back of a young calf) for the pot roast

as for the mashed potato sometimes i use ranch instead of milk (my preference is buttermilk but thats non existent here) and if i wanna be extra lavish i would put it in a pyrex cover it with bread crumbs and cheddar cheese and broil it for a couple of minutes and it makes a dish by itself rather than a side dish :P

Cooking The Easy Way said...

No Angel, your suggestions are GREAT!! i think i am going to change the name of the recipe too to Pot Roast too! :) i just could not think of any other name to it! your recipe for Mashed potatoes is a smash hit in itself!!! i still have to try out your soup recipe and post it...soon!

lonnie said...

you have a new fan from Texas. what i liked most was that you left the skin of the potato on. that is a very southern way of cooking, you won't get skin on mashed potato's in new york city or just about anywhere in the northern u.s. thanks, love the bee gees music

lonnie

Cooking The Easy Way said...

Lonnie, thanks for your comment and coming by to watch!! glad you liked the recipe..i had no idea that it is a southern way of cooking at all, i thought it is a "new wave" of cooking !! thanks for clarifying this. love the Bee Gees music too!!!