Slow-Braised Curt Ribs | Planning For The Weekend

I'm trying to locomote a niggling to a greater extent than organized alongside our weekends.  Our weeks are a niggling nuts together with hence nosotros only sort of 'crash' over the weekends.  We request some fourth dimension to only unwind together with locomote lazy.  But inward improver to that I desire to excogitation for some fourth dimension to practise some of the things I beloved to do... that commonly acquire lost inward the mid-week shuffle.  
One of the things I am going to locomote to a greater extent than mindful of planning is to accept some leisure fourth dimension inward the kitchen.  I don't beloved spending alllll twenty-four lx minutes menstruum inward the kitchen, but i repast a twenty-four lx minutes menstruum is the perfect amount of leisure cooking.  We e'er await frontwards to lounging unopen to Sat morning.  While I'm all for a run for donuts, on snowy days staying inward is to a greater extent than fun.   So, I'm gong to discovery a novel recipe to stimulate for Sat breakfast/brunch.... suggestions?  

We commonly locomote out or acquire pizza on Sat nighttime together with out for brunch on Sun after church.  Sunday dinner is actually the top dog event.  This Sun I'm bringing dorsum a cozy dinner - the form that cooks all twenty-four lx minutes menstruum together with makes the solid odor amazing.  

At the offset of Jan I wanted cipher to practise alongside rich, comforting dinners... I gauge that's what happens after also much indulging during the Holidays.  The conditions was mild, it felt to a greater extent than similar the offset of saltation together with I was inward the mood for fresh together with light.  Fast frontwards to 3 weeks afterwards together with nosotros are inward the midst of snowfall together with wintertime seems to locomote hither to remain for a bit.  It feels a fleck similar starting over - getting inward the mood for hot chocolate, fires every nighttime together with thinking of stews together with hearty dinners again.  Slow-Braised Short Ribs is at the top of our list.  We made it for our household unit of measurement Christmas dinner - it is that good.  Cozy dinners hither nosotros come upwardly : )

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Repost from 2014 :

 

I beloved to develop a large dinner on Sundays... preferably i that simmers on the stove (or inward the oven) all twenty-four lx minutes menstruum hence it fills the solid alongside the most amazing aromas.

This is how our tabular array is laid most Sun nights for dinner, alongside the improver of a high chair, of course.  And, at that spot is not always wine.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of the fourth dimension at that spot is, but non all of the time.   I commonly perish along some sort of bountiful seasonal display on our tabular array hence when nosotros laid downwards for dinner it feels special.

Did I advert I made an apple tree pie, too?  The solid smelled out of this world.

And spell I laid the table...

Mike together with Emma play - this is the "couch house" they built for Emma's babies.  Sun is their twenty-four lx minutes menstruum to play together together with I acquire to pass the twenty-four lx minutes menstruum inward the kitchen.

Of course, she's e'er available to assist me inward the kitchen if I should request her assistance.

Here is our tabular array - laid for three.  Since Emma was 10 months old, nosotros accept sat at the tabular array every nighttime alongside Emma inward hopes that she would larn to sit down through dinner alongside us... we're however working on it. 

The candles used on the tabular array are my favorite for autumn - 12" Tapers inward Edgartown Sand.

Dinner is served.   Can yous odor it?  Simmering beef, rosemary, wine, thyme....

Oh, it was hence good.  I created the recipe past times combining some of my favorites from Martha Stewart together with The Barefoot, of course.  It was completely divine.  I tin non say yous how delicious the vegetables were - they had absorbed all of the flavors from the herbs together with wine... served alongside mashed potatoes, no less.

 

And our Apple Pie (made alongside cinnamon, nutmeg together with orangish zest) for dessert.  Recipe coming tomorrow.

Braised

Short Ribs



serves 4-6

New! Printable Recipes, here.

six beef curt ribs
bounding main tabular array salt & cracked pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 xanthous onion, medium dice
six carrots, peeled, medium dice
4 celery stalks, medium dice
1 leek, medium dice
4 garlic cloves, minced
3 cups of crimson wine
4 Bay Leaves
4 Rosemary Sprigs
4 Thyme Sprigs
six cups beef stock
2 tablespoons chocolate-brown sugar

Preheat oven to 275.

Heat a large dutch oven on the stove.  Cover curt ribs alongside tabular array salt together with pepper.  Add olive crude oil to the pan, hence sear the curt ribs inward the crude oil for close 2 minutes on each side until browned.  Remove curt ribs together with laid them aside to rest.

Add onions together with carrots to the same pot - create on high for 2-3 minutes until they start out to soften.  Add celery together with leek.  Cook for five to a greater extent than minutes.  Add minced garlic together with create for some other minute.  

Pour inward crimson vino together with create for close five minutes on high.  Tie together fresh herbs alongside cotton fiber twine together with house them inward the pot.  Add beef stock.  Bring entire pot upwardly to a simmer.  Put the curt ribs dorsum inward the pot hence encompass together with house inward the oven.  Cook for 3 hours at 275 degrees.

When finished cooking, house the pot on top of the stove together with allow it residuum for thirty minutes.  

With a ladle, scoop off the broth together with house it inward a clear drinking glass container (or two) together with pose it inward the refrigerator.  Recover the pot alongside the ribs together with vegetables inward the meantime.   Refrigerate the broth for thirty minutes, hence acquire dorsum together with skim the fatty off of the top.  Pour the remaining broth dorsum into the pot together with reheat until it is simmering.  Remove from estrus together with encompass to perish along warm until serving.  

I served our curt ribs alongside mashed potatoes, but a crusty slice of breadstuff would also locomote fabulous. 

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