{"id":202,"date":"2007-11-05T20:47:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2007-11-05T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T20:47:02","slug":"cabernet-braised-short-ribs-with-gorgonzola-polenta-and-mixed-herb-gremolata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Cabernet-Braised Short Ribs with Gorgonzola Polenta and Mixed Herb Gremolata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3780.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3780.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mmm&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/240108\">this<\/a> was the cover recipe from the October (2007) <u>Bon Appetit<\/u> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Hubby LOVED this.  It would really be better once the weather&#8217;s colder, but we live in Texas, so we could be waiting for a while for that to happen.  I buy my short ribs at Costco and they don&#8217;t have them all year &#8211; they arrive when the weather starts to get colder.  When I first saw this recipe, they didn&#8217;t have them yet, so I&#8217;ve had this recipe in my &#8220;want to try&#8221; pile for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>I cut the recipe in half, because the Costco short ribs come in a smaller package than the recipe calls for.  They are also boneless, but they substitute just fine.  Since they didn&#8217;t have bones, I sliced them to serve them, but they were so tender, they almost fell apart when I pulled them out of the baking dish.  Everything else, I followed to the letter.  I did use the &#8220;bake ahead&#8221; instructions, which was helpful, because after the ribs were refrigerated a while, the congealed fat could be picked right up off the surface.  I know &#8211; ew- but it did make things easy &#8211; none of that skimming with a spoon and not catching it all.  Don&#8217;t be tempted to skip the gremolata; it really does add just the right fresh, bright note.  I reduced my sauce a bit too much and it was a bit thicker than it should have been.  Other than that, this was fantastic!  I added some green beans, but a salad would have been nice, too.<\/p>\n<p>I used a pretty good quality Cabernet &#8211; Souverain Alexander Valley ($30+ per bottle) &#8211; better than I would normally use just for cooking &#8211; but it was really yummy and I had it left over (I&#8217;ve been saving it for a meal that I deemed &#8220;worthy&#8221;) from our Christmas Prime Rib dinner.  I meant to get to the grocery store over the weekend and buy a &#8220;lesser&#8221; Cabernet to cook it in, and then I was going to serve it with the Souverain, but that didn&#8217;t happen, so I went with what I had on hand&#8230;. Of course, that meant that I had to buy a second bottle of the Souverain today to drink with it &#8211; we couldn&#8217;t cook the meat in something fabulous and then drink something inferior with it when we ate it!  But this did mean that we had over $60 tied up in tonight&#8217;s dinner, just for the wine (not to mention the beef, gorgonzola, fresh herbs, etc.)!  The really sad thing is that Hubby (who has no idea what the wines cost that I normally buy &#8211; usually around $12 &#8211; $15) noticed the difference in the wine quality instantly:  &#8220;Mmmm&#8230; this is <em>really <\/em>good wine.&#8221;  I guess you really do get what you pay for.  <Sigh.><\/p>\n<p>This is how we made the kid&#8217;s plates (food separated &#8211; <em>very<\/em> important).  Girl liked the sauce and the gremolata.  Boy preferred his meat plain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3782.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3782.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mmm&#8230;this was the cover recipe from the October (2007) Bon Appetit magazine. Hubby LOVED this. It would really be better once the weather&#8217;s colder, but we live in Texas, so we could be waiting for a while for that to happen. I buy my short ribs at Costco and they don&#8217;t have them all year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cabernet-Braised Short Ribs with Gorgonzola Polenta and Mixed Herb Gremolata&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}