Ossobucco Calf Leg Steaks

I would like to share with you a very tasty meat recipe.
I do not have much experience in the kitchen so I just wrote everything that I saw.
The amount of meat and ingredients would depend on how many persons you are cooking for.
Just estimate the ingredients. Do not put too much. (I know it's not that exact but I always believe that a good cook can find his way in the kitchen no matter what).


Here goes.




Ossobucco
(bein sheiben vom Kalb)






4 pieces calf leg steaks 
Spices except dill (the normal kitchen spices. You can be imaginative and put in everything that sounds nice)
Pepper and salt
Thick Thread (to bind the meat)
White wein
Water or vegetable brew (for the brew you can use any clear soup mix,do not use the cream based ones)
Slivered Carrots
Celery stalks slivered
Onions 4 bulbs chopped
Garlic  4 small parts
Vegetable Oil for frying (or any oil)
Champignons 5-10 pieces
Maggi sauce (not too much)




Procedure:


(Do all the pre-cooking procedures : washing meat and vegetables, drying,slicing,etc.)






Bind the calf legs with thread. Just around the middle part so that the flesh will not bulge out and separate from the bone when fried.




 
Pepper and salt the meat and fry in hot oil.




Fry both sides for a short time only until both sides loose the red color (approx. 1 minute pro side)
This is important to close the meat pores so that the meat juice will remain inside when being baked.





Arrange meat on a baking tray, making sure to leave spaces in between.






















 
All the vegetables sliced and placed on a tray with all the meat. Only on the sides, not on top of the meat.







Pour in water or vegetable brew and wein. Add extra spices( anything you can find in your kitchen except dill)





Bake 180 celsius-200 celsius for  1 hour and a half. Approx. 45 minutes on each side.
Do not let it dry. Pour a bit of  brew  every now and then or scoop the meat juice on the baking tray and pour on the meat tops.





Finished when it is soft and tight.
Soft like the outer third part of palm of your hand  when made into a fist.


Serve with Italian bread or fried potatoes.

Eine Rätsle

Everyone, look at this tree. Look at this row of trees in particular.

Can you notice anything peculiar?

Yeah. That's right.

A great number of leaves on one side seem to be missing.

Where have they gone you ask?

I don't know myself. But one can leave himself pussled with this Rätsel .

What is a Rätsel you say?

Well you're kind of a nosy asker arent you?

Kidding. hahaha

A Rätsel is just another word for puzzle. Just like ''mystery'' or ''enigma'' or ''conundrum''.

It's a german equivalent for these words. And unlike in english where you have a whole lot more selections of words that can spell you out the meaning of puzzle in a sentence, the german language seems to delight itself with its limited supply of vocabulary.

That may not seem to be a problem at all you might say. On the contrary, it can be really helpful especially for someone who's trying to learn the language.

Well I say: it indeed makes things easier, not having a lot of words to memorize when you want to have a thought translated. However, it is only easy at first.

Right when you are getting yourself slowly drowned in the intricate webs of german language learning, you will most probably find yourself wishing for a whole lot more options of words to choose from.

Still not quite getting the idea? Let me lay it out for you.

Take the word ,,bringen'' for example which means ''bring'' in english, and which was the first word that came to my head.

you have to be really careful with the syllables you are adding to this word because one slight change can alter the meaning.

Bringen--bring
verbringen---to pass, to spend
mitbringen---to bring with
umbringen---to kill, to murder
abringen---to force, to wring, to wrench,to wrest sth. from so.
erbringen---to generate, to effect,to yield, to render
herbringen--to bring forth
 abbringen---to argue, to dissuade
aufbringen---to alienate, to apply, to capture, to enrage,to deposit, to find,to infuriate, to summon up,to superimpose, to upset so. ( i tell you, the list goes on)
zubringen ---to feed, to spend, to retrieve
unterbringen---to accommodate,to relocate, to store
ausbringen---to bear, to cut, to extract, to deploy

(I swear just searching these meanings makes me wanna tear up right now)

einbringen---to cross, to deepen, to cut through, to bring a return, to advance
anbringen---to add, to apply, to affix (well this is nice, the meanings are not that far from each other)

The list goes on my friends, I'm telling you.

If you are trying to learn german, and if you wanna have some fun, or if you just want to have something to pass your time on,
go to Leo.de or any online english-german dictionary,

recall all the german prepositions, prefixes, suffixes you know for ex.

auf, an, zu, ein, mit, nach, ent, ab, unter,aus, her, ver, um, etc. (just look up the others)

and think of any ordinary german verb.
It can be really common like ''Essen'' which means to eat
or something more unusual like ''Führen'' which means to lead,
and just glue all the different prepostions and suffixes and prefixes that you know,

and you will be amazed how many different things a single word can mean.

And! I'n not yet done. And how many meanings a particular word with a particular prefix can have and how very far those meanings can be from each other.

Just read the line with ''aufbringen'' again and you will see what I mean.

This is not enraging at all. or even something to be utterly depressed on.

This is in my opinion, challenging.
It is a big hurdle to get over with, when you want to be in a nice relationship with the german language.


Let me lastly get back to my tree picture above.

I have no idea why those trees are short of bushy green parts on the left side.
Maybe a lightning hit that part of the forest a few years ago, or maybe that part of the forest is situated somewhere where the sun doesnt hit the left side of the trees that much.
Maybe something strange is going on, maybe those trees where part of a clinical trial or a mad evil science experiment, one can only guess.

Let your imagination run free.

Anything is possible.

'Till the next hurdles!
HAppy Easter .