The ArtsyGirl Connection: 2011-02-27

Appreciating "The Marrow" Dinner

"Lets Narrow Down The Marrow"

Beef Bone Marrow With A Side Of Fresh Parsley Salad

"nothing compares to a mouthful of gelatinous marrow"

Today's featured "Join Us For Dinner", certainly is a first for me to
cook within my kitchen. I'm such a lover of good, chewable and succulent
bone, whether its fried, souped or however else its cooked, as long as
I have some marrow to enjoy!! MMmMmm MMmmm Mmmm~YuMmY!!
Fav Fun Marrow Fact: It's Anthony Bourdain's
favourite dish & he'll order as his "Last meal" if required..

Bone marrow in general is very under appreciated, and looked down upon,
yet I'm almost certain it's one of the best
part of the meat that's tossed
away and forgotten about consistently amongst a lot of dinner tables..
"I'll ALWAYS take your
bones off your hands "
lol!! My family, especially TJ
thinks I'm nuts and will someday crack a tooth
open, but he enjoyed
the creativity of the meal tonight and certainly joined in on my marrow fun!!

Are you ready to appreciate some succulent and
"ooh so DELISH Marrow"..? Then lets get cooking!!

Beef Bone Marrow With A Side Of Fresh Parsley Salad
(YES Parsley?! I thought the SAME exact thing!!)

Artsy Ingredients Needed
*Bone Marrow (I used beef)

*
Juice of 1 lemon

*1 bunch flat-leaf parsley,
leaves picked from stems

*
2 tablespoons (30 grams) capers

*
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil(that's what
the original
recipe said "LOL" - I used reg olive oil ~shhhh)

*
Handful of Olives (Another dabb
of goodness I added to the mix)

*
Potatoes(straggler item I added as I went along)

*
Herb & Garlic Feta (Everything just taste that
much better with F E T A!!)

*
Freshly ground black pepper

*
Toasted bread, for serving
*Coarse sea salt

*
One infant hanging on to your legs
from stove
to sink & all around the kitchen

*
Oh Yea - and Garlic cloves (about 2 or 3)

*S
eries of constant questions from the curious

"wait, but what's for dinner again..?"

Lets Brew These Bones!!!

To begin, wash the bone marrow's carefully

(rinse them well until they are not too gritty & clean)

Take your garlic cloves and mince into

fine pieces & stuff withing the marrow

of the bones Sprinkle with salt

and pepper for taste.

Place flatest side down in pan (fat from

bone will leak while baking, so a pan is

better to bake in as it'll collect all the

juices from the marow)

Roast the bones at 350 degrees

Fahrenheit for about 30 minutes

After placing marow's in the oven, I glanced over

and saw some red potatoes sticking out my veggie bowl & BLAM, it had to be a straggler item added to my dish, so I popped them in some water and boiled untill they where soft, skin on and sliced thinly into a bowl, and added some garlic infused oil and salt and pepper to taste!!

While bone roasts(mmmm - can you smell the EPIC AROMA already all around the kitchen?), slowly make your way to your parsley while trying to walk and drag infant laughing at your feet all at once, grab parsley, pick from the stems and chop finely; place in bowl with your chopped shallots, capers, olive oil, UNLIMITED feta cheese (mmm nyuum nyuum nyuum lol--I love FETA!), squeezed lemon juice, some olives (I incorporated this myself as I thought the salt from the olives will flavor the salad more & it was a great descison as we loved it); add some pepper (you could add
salt but after the olives I think I was simply "all salt out"!) MIX MIX MIX very WELL with wooden fork untill well blended and set aside.. Don't forget to taste it and make sure the ingredients blend!