Beef Cheek Ravioli on American Thanksgiving
Since moving to the States, David and I have come to realize that Thanksgiving is almost a bigger deal to Americans than Christmas. For our past two years we have been spoiled by having our American Thanksgivings provided for us by our cousins Lisa and Josef (we were introduced to our first foie gras and deep fried turkey all in one day) but since moving to Laredo we have had to fend for ourselves. Neither of us wanted to try and replicate our turkey from Canadian Thanksgiving (the real one) so we decided to just have a happy fancy meal. With my ongoing love of eating weird animal parts it seemed destiny that we finally were able to find beef cheeks in a grocery store. Our menu consisted of an amuse bouche of Eggs with Anchovy Crumbs, followed by Chilled Asparagus Soup with Creme Fraiche, then Mushroom & Shrimp Arugula Salad, and finally our Beef Cheek Ravioli. For desert we made Vanilla Bean Cheesecakes with Blackberries.
- Noah23 - "Faded" (ft. Ceschi)
at times gross but endearing and completely adorable (once again)
xoxo
You two may be the best ever!
What’s the difference between an amuse bouche and an appetizer?
p.s. Were you guys cooking over a 12 hour period? It went from bright daylight to really dark looking and the meal took place both indoors and outdoors.
p.p.s. That ravioli looked time consuming yet insanely delicious.
An amuse bouche is just supposed to be one bite… unfortunately whenever David and I make any we have enough to feed about 16 people their one bite and its always so rich we feel like puking around bite 12. This time it occurred to us that we don’t actually need to make the full recipe — genius!
We actually started cooking the beef cheeks the night before and then we made the rest/ate the meal roughly between 4pm to 9 pm…we were stuffed!
You guys are amzaing.