My FFWD recipe this week was My Go-To Beef Daube (no parsnips) served with mashed potatoes.
This is an excellent recipe with a complex and unique flavor due to the brandy and entire bottle of red wine. Everyone loved it! I did use a central coast Syrah as Dorie recommends; I found a $5 Petite Sirah (Crane Lake), quite a bargain and just right for the daube.
The recipe description says this can be considered a version of Beef with Carrots, which we have made countless times using a John Thorne recipe. It is one of my family’s all-time favorites; very easy to make and completely sublime. It has no wine so has a very different flavor from Dorie's daube. Recipe will be my next post!
Edited to add: this recipe is online here: http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/my-go-beef-daube
Edited to add: this recipe is online here: http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/my-go-beef-daube
Your plate is making me SO happy...that's entirely my kind of dinner.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I'm not usually so fancy-schmancy...the soup swirl is something I've always wanted to try, after seeing it in magazines! I was just tickled that it sort of worked. :)
I bet this was fabulous with mashed potatoes! Will have to remember that for next time! :)
ReplyDeleteSo...which do you like better...the one with the wine or without?
ReplyDeleteI swear I could smell your beef daube from the picture. yum!
ReplyDeleteBoth recipes look delicious! :)
ReplyDeleteYour daube looks terrific!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone:)
ReplyDeletechocolatechic, we like them both pretty equally, however, we all think John Thorne's Beef with Carrots has a bit of an edge - a little plainer but richer. It is a desert island food for me!
I also make a really nice basic beef stew with carrots, potatoes, caraway, & peas. Another winter staple. My son did tell me that he likes Dorie's Daube better than my basic stew, even though he doesn't like wine or wine in his food. I will post the basic stew recipe sometime...the flavor just isn't knock-your-socks-off as in these "beef with carrots" dishes, however, that makes it better for younger kids, I think.
Beautiful job!
ReplyDeleteLooks great with the mashed potatoes. Perfect winter comfort food.
ReplyDeleteHaven't made this yet so didn't realise it was quite so boozey ... looks and sounds like it was delicious!
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Looks great! I really loved this and I thought the wine gave it a wonderful flavor. Your mashed potatoes were a very nice accompaniment. I'd love to try your Beef and Carrots sounds delicious.
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