Osso Bucco from a Big Bowl of Love Cookbook
Happy Hump Day! Today is a very exciting day. First of all, today is the Bunkycooks 9th wedding anniversary. Woo hoo! We also released our new website yesterday for our On the Road culinary adventures. I think those two events are worthy of a celebration with a delightful cookbook giveaway, don’t you?
I was excited to be able to review Cristina Ferrare’s new cookbook, Big Bowl of Love. I grew up seeing Cristina on the covers of fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and on various television shoes. Cooking has always been a big part of her life as well as her family’s, so I was curious to see the types of dishes that she enjoys preparing. Cristina also has her own cooking show on OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), Cristina Ferrare’s Big Bowl of Love.
I was thrilled to see her cookbook so beautifully illustrated in photographs by my friends Diane Cu and Todd Porter (White on Rice Couple). I admire them and their talent and feel that they captured the heart and soul of Cristina, her cookbook and the recipes perfectly.
I chose to make Cristina’s Osso Bucco. The taste of the final dish resembled a rich Veal Piccata. The recipe was very simple to prepare, yet the flavors were complex. I did serve it (one of the suggestions) with Cristina’s Yukon Gold Mash with Scallions, which was a very nice accompaniment. We liked Todd and Diane’s photos of the Osso Bucco so much, we tried to make ours look as good as theirs! Who else could make cooked meat look so appealing? 😉
This versatile dish is perfect for a family dinner or is elegant enough to serve for a dinner party. I completed the plate with some sautéed carrots. Add a nice bottle of Pinot Noir and you have a delightful dinner!
This dish makes a beautiful presentation for a special dinner.
I know you would love to win this cookbook just in time for Mother’s Day (May 8th), so here is how you enter the giveaway.
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Osso Bucco
Ingredients:
Kosher salt
Cracked pepper
4 pounds veal shanks. Rinsed and dried
¾ cup all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup dry white wine
4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 quart chicken stock, homemade of store-bought organic chicken broth (I used Swanson’s)
¼ cup loosely packed Italian parsley, chopped fine
Zest of 1 lemon
Directions:
Salt and pepper the veal shanks lightly on both sides. Dredge in flour and set aside.
For 3 minutes, heat a skillet large enough to hold all 4 pieces of beef (veal). Add the oil and swirl it around the pan. Add the beef (veal) and saute it for 4 to 5 minutes on each side. Add the wine and cook until the wine is reduced by half. Add the lemon juice and the chicken stock. Cover, and bring to just under a boil. Reduce heat to a low simmer. Simmer the meat for 2 hours, turning it after 1 hour. Remove the lid, raise the heat to medium, and cook until the liquid is reduced to about 1 1/2 cups. The meat is cooked when you can insert a fork easily right through the meat; it should literally be falling off the bone.
Sprinkle on chopped parsley and lemon zest before serving.
Cristina Ferrare
Big Bowl of Love
This looks like something that E would love! Shame I won’t be making it for him any time soon, but I’ll pass the recipe along so maybe he can make it him one weekend when I’m away 🙂
What a beautiful picture. Sleeping in would make my mother’s day. That and seeing my kids sweet smiles. Oh, and winning would be sweet too!
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Mother’s day would be perfect if I could be at home with my mother! I will head home to OH the weekend after, so that will make it up to her. 🙂 It would especially great if I could win this cookbook for her!!! She loves Christina Ferrare!
And I follow both you and Cristina on Twitter! 🙂
My perfect Mother’s Day would involve some sort of homemade card or letter from both of my kids, and a little sumpin’-sumpin’ from my dear, darling, devoted, dashing husband.
I am now following Cristina on Twitter, and, of course, I already follow Bunkycooks.
I am now a fan of Cristina on facebook, and of Bunkycooks!
I am already a subcriber to Bunkycooks. And I love visiting here!
Mother’s Day would be perfect if I didn’t have to go into the office and could just putter around in the yard after taking my mom out for brunch.
I’ve liked Bunky cooks on FB for a long time and just added Cristina. Happy Anniversary!!!
My mother’s day would be perfect if I could spend it with my mother… Instead, we’ll have to have a virtual breakfast of Eggs Benedict together over Skype!
Well, I’m not a mother, but the perfect Mother’s Day for me would be NOT having to cook a meal for my mom, dad, 3 siblings, plus my husband and father-in-law! Eek! 😉
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Happy Anniversary to both of you! I look forward to checking out your other website, and look forward to making this dish tonight.
The perfect Mother’s day would be spent with my Mother who is 84. My wish
will come true May 8th. My daughter, Allison with her 2 month old, and I will drive to Florida to visit Mother. Nothing like 4 generations together!
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::sigh:: I work at a country club and so I never get to spend Mother’s Day with my mom, so making her a special dinner would be awesome instead of being at work!
I would love to have my mom visit me in Germany for Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day would be cooking out of my newly won cookbook!!!
Happy Anniversary to you two!!
Sleeping in, breakfast in bed, a great day with family.
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The perfect Mother’s Day would be spent in my garden, with all the girls at home, and then a wonderful dinner on the grill. Oh, and someone else woulc clean the kitchen up! 🙂
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A lovely dinner served sitting out by the ocean on a breezy day with our children & grandchildren would be a perfect Mother’s Day. Happy Anniversary to Bunkycooks !!
My perfect Mother’s Day would be to have both of my busy daughter’s together with me and we do a “Girl’s Day Out”.
I am already a subscriber to Bunkycooks and look forwards to each posting.
I am now a fan of Bunkycooks on Face Book.
I am following Bunkycooks on Twitter and I am already following Christina Cooks on both Twitter and Facebook.
My mom had an accident resulting in severe head injury leaving her unable to speak and partly paralyzed so just being with my mom on Mother’s Day would make her very happy,
Breakfast in bed and a day off from “chores”
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Going to make complete meals for my wife on mother day. Kids have breakfast and I have other two. Getting some susi for lunch for her. Then dinner chicken marsala with roasted beets, risoto and butter pasta (homemade angle hair). carrot cake for desert
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The perfect Mother’s Day would be sleeping late, a leisurely brunch at a good local restaurant, an afternoon nap and some time to putter about in the garden 🙂
p.s. – your osso bucco looks fabulous!!
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What would make my Mother’s Day perfect would be for my mother to be able to be there.
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Spending time with both my grown kids and my Mom.
I follow both you and Cristina on Twitter.
I subscibe to your blog via RSS feed.
The recipe above looks so good, think I will try it next week 🙂
A day with my family!!
I would love my mom and I to have a great talk without tension! I would love for her to wake up happy, know that she is loved, have a laid-back, calm day, and to be filled with inner peace, contentment, and joy! I think this cookbook would make her happy as well!
Barbara
My youngest daughter always takes me to a English tea room in town, as her present to me, it is a very special treat for me. The only thing that would make it perfect would be if my other children could be there too.
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My perfect Mothers day would be to have all 4 of my kids and their families spend the day together at the zoo, with a wonderful picnic lunch and a photographer to capture it for me.
all my grand babies at one time. Pure heaven.
I have been curious about this new cookbook and the recipe you highlighted looks supreme. I would be most happy just having a great dinner together with my Mom on Mother’s Day!
To have my mom over – I will be cooking for her. thanks!
A housekeeper would make a perfect Mother’s Day gift.
I’m a subscriber to bunky cooks.
Following you both on twitter.
My Mother’s Day would be perfect if I could spend it on a day out with my mom and sisters, but since they live in a different state than I do, it is not possible.
I follow you and Christine on Twitter @GoddessFoodie.
I follow you and Cristina on FB.
I’m a new email subscriber.
To have my mom back. This will be my first Mother’s Day without her and I feel sort of lost. Cooking for me only just doesn’t sound as much fun.
Love your mom while you have her, they are so worth it.
I have only furkids to celebrate mother’s day with, so for us a long walk in the woods followed by a good long nap would make for a nice day.
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I would LOVE to win this cookbook because…I love new recipes. I have a a feeling that a lot of her recipes would be well received by my family!
All I need for a perfect Mother’s Day is a morning snuggle from my 23 month old daughter 🙂
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My perfect Mother’s Day is a day pf pampering with my Mom. No stress and no work just a day to ourselves to renew and enhance our relationship.
to have a cookout @ the pool with my family.
There is really nothing that can make my day more perfect than to know our newest granddaughter that was born at 24 weeks and weighed 1lb. at birth will be home from NICU to allow me to shower her in love .And making it even more perfect would be all my children and 6 grandchildren come to Nanni’s to visit .
Delicious and healthy! I just made some, but with pork and lamb meant. Delicious, I love this dish! 🙂
OMG – My mother has been having me look for this recipe from Christina Ferrare for over a decade and I finally found it!! I hope I’m invited to dinner when she makes it!