I also order veal piccata in an Italian restaurant at one time or another. I love veal and a good veal piccata is always great. It is not on the menu at Marco Polo but they made it up for me anyway. It actually wasn't that great. It needed more of the lemon sauce and maybe some capers. But it was still pretty good.
The secret to fine dining is going to the place where even there secondary dishes that aren't great still come out pretty good.
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I've said this previously. The best veal in the country comes from Wi. But, the cheapskates here won't pay for it so it's very hard to find.
Back in the day when I was living in WI I was driving down 51 and there was a cow hauler at a light next to me.
Stenciled on the side was "veals on wheels".
I'm not a veal fan, for various reasons. I don't begrudge anyone who wants it, I just don't.
Veal is one of the tastiest of your meats.
Prepared correctly you can taste the fear and terror of the calf being raised in a crate. Piquant.
had it a couple of times, never thought it was spectacular. Then again, I never had it at a fancy dago joint in NYC.
Had it once it was all grainy and nasty.
Another time it just tasted of breading and tomato.
And I like calves. I'm a softie that way.
Someday you have to come over the house and I will make it with onions and a tomato ragu over spaghetti.
It is as good as it gets.
Oh and everybody is invited.
Even you spinelli.
You use ragu? I thought prego was the way to go for authentic flavor?
(yes, I know what a ragu is, before you panic. LOL.)
If you don't have any Prego or Ragu in the cupboard, you can always substitute some ketchup with oregano and basil mixed in.
Nice.
You food illiterates you!
Man hating lesbians should like veal because it is always a male calf.
But they only eat fish.
If you use ketchup (or catsup, if you prefer) you have to use some sugar though, cuz the vinegar in the ketchup (or catsup, if you prefer) throws off the flavors.
Don't ask me why I know that.
When we went on our big 40-countries-in-30-days tour when I was a kid, the tour seemed to be arrange on the principle that Americans would only want to eat American food and, apparently, Americans loved veal.
It was all pretty mediocre. Best meals were when we escaped the tour and when to local dives.
I had a cousin in Germany who sniffed because my mom and I liked Weinerwald, which is like McDonald's, I guess, in terms of status. But they served rotisserie chicken, which is tough to do bad.
I did a 2-country 36 month tour once. The Swiss and Germans know how to do veal for the average hungry man. You see, over there, you cannpt afford to feed a bovine all the way to maturity unless it's a milk producer so most people eat veal.
We were camping with a group from our church and I mentioned whipping up a batch of salsa by mixing ketchup and relish. No takers on that recipe.
Ketchup. Mmmmm...the bacon of the condiment world.
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