Celebration Meal Plans: Company Comfort
Chopped Italian Salad | Osso Buco | Pumpkin Risotto | Brenda's Favorite Lemon Tart
Chopped Italian Salad
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Company Comfort (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 6 | oz | lettuce, mixed |
| 0.5 | cup | tomatoes, cherry |
| 1 | small | cucumbers, sliced |
| 1 | Tb | onions, chopped |
| 2 | oz | cheese, Romano |
| 1 | small | celery ribs |
| 3 | Tb | cheese, Romano, grated |
| 0.25 | cup | mushrooms, sliced |
| 0.125 | cup | olives, green |
| 2 | oz | salami |
| 3 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 0.5 | tsp | oregano, dried |
| 3 | Tb | vinegar, red wine |
| 1 | tsp | garlic powder |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Chop all ingredients into bite size pieces. Place in a large bowl. Add olive oil, vinegar, garlic powder and oregano and mix. Add grated romano and mix again. Serve
Osso Buco
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | The Other Meat Entrée |
| Meal: | Company Comfort (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 4 | large | veal shanks |
| 3 | Tb | flour |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
| 0.25 | cup | butter, salted |
| 0.5 | cup | onions, chopped |
| 1 | large | carrots, diced |
| 1 | stalk | celery ribs |
| 3 | cloves | garlic, chopped |
| 2 | medium | bay leaves, whole dried |
| 0.75 | cup | wine, dry white |
| 1 | 10.5 oz can | beef consommé |
| 1 | 16 oz can | tomatoes, diced |
| 1 | tsp | thyme, dried |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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| 1 | cloves | garlic, minced |
| 2 | Tb | parsley, flat leaf |
| 1 | Tb | lemon zest, finely chopped |
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Season flour with salt and pepper; sprinkle evenly over the veal shanks. Heat butter in a large, ovenproof pot. Brown veal shanks, remove to a plate. Cut onions, carrot and celery into a small dice, add to pot and sauté until lightly browned. Add garlic, sauté for 1 minute; add bay leaf, thyme, tomatoes, consommé and white wine and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the veal shanks back into the pot; cover and simmer in a 350 degree oven for 1-1/1/2 hours, until the meat is falling off the bones. Add salt and pepper to taste.
For the gremolata: chop garlic, parsley lemon zest into a fine chop. Serve along side of the plated shanks to be sprinkled on the top of the shanks.
Note: Good quality beef shanks may be substituted for the veal shanks.
Pumpkin Risotto
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Vegetarian Entrée |
| Meal: | Company Comfort (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 1 | lb | pumpkin, fresh |
| 2 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | cup | onions, chopped |
| 6 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 2.25 | cup | rice, Arborio |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
| 5 | cup | vegetable broth |
| 0.5 | cup | cheese, Romano, grated |
| 0.25 | cup | cheese, Romano |
| 1 | Tb | parsley, flat leaf |
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Cut, seed and peel pumpkin, cut into ¾ inch dice. Heat olive oil in a pot with 2/3rds of the butter. Add onions and pumpkin, sweat over medium heat until softened. Add rice to pot, stirring until rice is translucent. Add salt and pepper to taste. Lower heat; add broth ½ cups at a time, stirring constantly. Add remaining butter and grated Romano cheese.
Spoon risotto onto plates, shave remaining Romano cheese with a vegetable peeler over risotto and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
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Brenda's Favorite Lemon Tart
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Company Comfort (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 2.5 | Tb | lemon, zest, grated |
| 1.25 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 15 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 0.625 | cup | lemon, juice of |
| 5 | large | egg |
| 1 | large | egg, yolks |
| 1 | recipe | Tart Dough |
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Place lemon zest and sugar in a bowl, mix together. Cut butter into 15 pieces. Place lemon juice, sugar, butter, and all the eggs into a non-reactive saucepan. Whisk together. Set pan over medium heat and stir until thick and hot to the touch. Remove from heat, strain into bowl and refrigerate for 1/2 hour.
Use pre-baked tart shell ((Recipes/Dessert/Tart Dough), fill with lemon filling. Refrigerate until served.
Note: Be sure to add the tart dough recipe to your shopping list.
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