Beer with her soup, that’s my gal!
I was so thrilled to get an email from my penpal Annette of I’m Annette to say she’d found a Jane Russell recipe on the internet. This was music to my ears as the only recipe I had in my collection is BONKERS, really bonkers! I was planning to use it in the Vincent Price Co*Star cookbook but was dreading having to test cook it as one of the ingredients is a can of “spiced veal”. Believe me, I have spent quite some time googling this foodstuff and am none the wiser.
Thankfully, the recipe Annette found is much more do-able for the modern cook. The recipe featured in a syndicated newspaper column in 1966 and it’s utterly delicious.
Yum, yum! I’ve tweaked it a little bit for the book as follows:
Jane Russell’s Green Pepper Steak A La Waterfield
2 lbs top round steak cut into ½ inch strips
4 tablespoons olive oil (divided use)
2 large green bell peppers cut into thin strips
2 large onions, coarsely chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed (divided use)
½ lb fresh mushrooms, sliced
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons salt
¾ cup red wine
5 or 6 pinches of curry powder
Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large, heavy frying pan and brown the steak with 1 crushed clove of garlic. In a second frying pan, heat another 2 tablespoons of oil and slowly sauté the green peppers and onions until the vegetables are tender. Add the second clove of crushed garlic, mushrooms, black pepper and salt. Add the sautéed vegetables to the meat, then add in the wine, cover and cook slowly for half an hour. Add in the curry powder, cover and continue to simmer for another hour. Jane says, ‘At this point, you may eat with gusto, but you may also continue cooking gently for many hours or even take it off the stove and store it overnight, in which case the flavour will be even better.’
Serve over warm rice.
Serves: 4-6
I suspect Spam would be your best replacement for spiced veal in a can – it’s spiced and canned, right? 😀
I’m afraid Jane Russell and I just might have incompatible palates, though, because I sure don’t want to eat canned meat if I don’t have to–but I also hate bell peppers! It looks very pretty, though, and I’m glad it was good.
Miss Dove – don’t tempt me!
This blog post was fun to read, as always!
I will be making this recipe soon, minus the curry. :o).
Glad that this recipe was helpful!
I especially enjoy Jane Russell in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “Paleface”, and “Son of Paleface”!
Wishing you a Happy Easter!
Oooh yes Annette, do let me know how it turns out, we loved it!
love finding my grandmothers recipe for pepper steak she cut out of a Dallas news paper eons ago . But now found she made hers in a crock pot but so delicious over hot white rice. Im a happy Girl! old memories!