Butter Poached Bone-In Rib Roast and Crispy Potatoes
Yep, you read it correctly: Butter…Poached..Rib Roast. Eight pounds of butter to be exact. In the pictures above, you’ll see the proof, including what 8 pounds of reducing butter looks like in a large pot, as well as the clarified remnants. The first few people to whom I mentioned this laughed nervously before questioning if [...]
Madame Silva’s Bouef avec Groseilles
Roughly translated, “Mrs. Silva’s Beef with Currents,” but as my family calls it “Mrs. Silva’s Meat Dish.” I first had this dish when I was nine, just like my father, who first experienced the wonders of this simple dish in 1956. Mrs. Silva – no one seems to remember her first name – was a [...]