we do a braised beef.a long braise but a quick put-together. >> first sear it. >> sear it in the pan. then take garlic, pinch in a little chili flake and crack in sage. sage is hearty. it lends to getting fried a little bit. it's simple in this manner. this takes 20, 30 seconds. we add in a touch of homemade tomato paste. >> why? >> it emulsifies the red wine and braises it out, gives a rich, deep flavor. >> okay. >> we add in the tomato paste, add the meat and cover with red wine, approximately two cup spms smells amazing already. >> you can never have too much wine. >> so you let it braise. what's the typical period of time? >> at a low temperature, about 300 degrees. this will cook in three and a half to five hours, somewhere around there. just until it's fork tender. it's an easy braise. if you cook it too much that's okay. it will fall apart. >> start on friday, have dinner saturday night, something like that. >> absolutely. >> we have the braised meat here. we'll heat it up a little bit more. >> here

>> today i'm making beef brisket tacos, so i have beef brisket that we braise with onions, and cooking juice that we -- jus that we add in here. >> is this a serving or what you are preparing now for like a family of four? >> this, i would say is maybe half of a serving. so we are just going to have three tacos on the plate. >> okay. >> i have a salsa, also we'll use made with pomegranate and we have braised red torpedo onions. >> you were saying it has been ten years you have been doing this. jews have been in mexico since the 15th century. as you say you are making tacos but the spices, do they differ from where the jews came from? or how do you decide what spices you are going to put in your mexican jewish dishes? >> you know, we have a culinary advisor, jonathan wax man, who is jewish, he has lent his expertise to our pass over. so he has chosen has been narrow chiles for this dish. >> what other dishes are you preparing? >> we are going to have a red snapper fish, and a couple of more items that will be determined. >> and this will be on menu throughout the hol bay? >> yes it will

>> that is braising. >> then there's blanched carrots, blanched potatoes.> so it's very simple. when you boil it put it in cold water. >> i really don't know how to do this. >> you don't know me but am i doing it? >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> then ginger. this actually -- >> yes. >> so you have to use a spoon, you know, go like that. so you don't have to use a peeler. you guys don't waste a lot. >> look how gorgeous it is when it's served. >> beautiful. >> so the quail eggs. >> absolutely. >> and then if you don't have quail eggs, regular egg? >> everything goes well. so here's the finished product. >> oh, that looks beautiful. >> great. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you. we're really glad to have this. hoda and kathie lee are next.

we are making a braised curried short rib dish.l you how much i enjoy pressure cooking ... it is not that difficult it saves time you can have a dish like this ready in one hour and it ordinarily would take two or three hours to prepare and cook what i wanted to do is to begin with seared short ribs to add complexity to the sauce and we brown traditional mire pois which is salary and onion and carrot to that i and some heat meaning some curry flavor and chilipepper is and the korean secret.. we will enhance the flavor is this way ... it this can be added to chicken dishes as well i am bringing this all together in my pressure cooker and turning it on low after it is a tightly sealed that steam will bring in so much flavor much more intense than typical stovetop pot cooking ... the shallots and garlic the ginger the lemon grass and the type or caribbean spice it's a long thai or korean spice -- a long list of ingrsdients make this test special i am adding some spicy chili peppers and some women grasslemon grass... my message is not

delicious, big and meaty and lend themselves to braising deliciously. guns. season the meat with that. right over it. added salt already. we had vinegar to brine it up. garlic powder. >> yep. >> then we let it sit, brown the meat. i started it here already. >> you're putting it into a baking dish and putting it together pretty snug. >> that's okay. we'll pour the sauce. we'll turn this off. we're going to pour sauce and bake it so it will braise, get tender and juicy and delicious. i have tomatoes to char. i'll put those in there. see the beautiful onions i have been sweating and browning? >> just in a little bit of olive oil. >> i had ancho chili paste. this is the stuff that dreams are made of. honest to goodness. it doesn't get better. i have oregano and cumin. go ahead and stir that in there, baby boy. we'll add chicken stock. >> right. >> we'll cook it down so the tomatoes break up nice and easy. once that happens -- >> what do you call this sauce? >> this is is. [ speaking in a foreign language ] which means tablecloth stainer. it's so delicious.

. >> pork belly that we're doing is being braised for about five hours with aromatics. i've got cherries that have been put into like a jelly with vanilla bean. and a little bit of toasted pa len take -- pal len take -- palenta plate. a lot of my food we do is kind of like on the senses. a little bit of crispy, a little savory, a little bit of sweet. especially at this time of year now, it's like 70 -- i don't even know what it is. we've got a patio that wraps around the entire restaurant. we've got tons of people that are enjoying the weather right now as we speak enjoying lunch. even at dinner time last night. >> it looks like a very simple recipe. we were talking about why pork bellies. howard thinks of trading. you think of low country food almost. but you say it's bacon. >> it is. it's raw bacon. it hasn't been cooked. it hasn't been cured. it hasn't been smoked, salted. it's just the actual slab. what we do is we take that and we cook it in a stock and then what you have is you can actually trim the fat off. you can have a crispy skin if you want. it's succulent.

a potential economic potential that should be in braised also for that's what i'm saying we're not being surprising thing that it's it's a reality. now i think recently congested roads the daily journey to work for people in major cities can turn into something of a nightmare especially the case in moscow where people spend hours in their cars every day lettuces to stick so that they could pass their traveling time by checking the metro or to start a school that examines library muscovites prefer not to. they both lead home early. it's still dark outside. he goes on to use public transport she gets into the comfort of her in the car. they are a young muscovite russian lady and a frenchman living and working in moscow. they both spend roughly an hour to an hour and a half getting to work except that on the mat his route is twice as long as tires. and while he enjoys his book she's stuck in traffic and once the worst in the world . coming from paris i think it's a it's a very difficult traffic especially by car you never know when you're live you know when you leave but you never know when

i have braised fennel and then saute this to carmelize this, when you have fish like this you can't cookng it will dry up.. so you don't need to cadre rahman couple of medicinalo cook this more than a couple of minutes.. here i am using caper berries garlic fresh basil and san marzano tomatoes.. i put the basil and toward the end and i use the smallest leaves, fresh stock of basilm on the fresh stalk of basil.. we are done with the comfort foods of winter and we want to do something lighter and fresher for the spring i like to cook with lots of olive oil instead of butter what i usually do with a dish like this i use extra virgin olive oil pressed with lemon ... and i a drizzle that on the fish we tried to accommodate our word vegetarian clients at the restaurant we also do traditional dishes of meat and fish we have a wood burning of ivan oven.. and we have six wines at the bar and 30 wines on our list permanent laytly.. if you eat this dish you will think you are on the coast of france with these capers and olives and berries garnishing miss wonderful fish berman union restaurant is lo

the braise was set as part of a controlled burn.t sprang back to life because of wind gusts. 9,000 homes had to be evacuated. >> we had a lot of wind yesterday. today they calmed down and chilled down. >> back to reality. >> and a coat. >> keep the coat handy. a lot of folks stepped out who didn't agree with what we were saying. brr,are. >> exactly. you are going to need the coat for the evening. chilly by tomorrow morning. not as cold. keep that coat with you there. the pollen count, 429 grains per cubic meter. out of that, oak is high at 265 grains per cubic meter. i spoke with the folks at walter reid allergy center. they are seeing a lot of trees capable of creating enormous amounts of pollen right now. we are running three times it average. 54 is the temperature. the wind is calm. the humidity at 21%. dry air with sunshine throughout the area. look at the temperatures, 52 degrees. 55 in mt. airie. waldorf and la play da, 56 degrees with a lot of sunshine. sunny skies, clear skies for overnight. 11:00 p.m., 48 degrees. that's in

this is tender braised pork for a pulled pork sandwich.akes it even better. >> delish. >> they're fast and easy. >> i want the bacon one. >> this is pork with cucumber and hot chilies. this is authentic. all fun. >> nothing's authentic today. >> it's gourmet. >> mm. >> michael, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. >> much more coming up. >> hoda and kathie lee will be talking about sex and separating fact from fiction. >> just a regular day for them. >> first, your local news and weather. have a wonderful weekend, everybody.

the second is a possible braise. >> in san francisco share frost markey -- ross mirkirimi credit guiltycharge in its domestic violence case. he says the accepted the plea deal to put the case behind him and continue to focus on his job as a share. the misdemeanor charge of dissuading a witness and child endangerment were dropped. he will be sentenced to three years' probation and when you're counseling. >> continuing coverage, mayor ed lee spoke at city hall specifically about the mirkirimi case. he says he has not yet decided if he will charge the share of with official misconduct. >> of misconduct would mean doing something in office that will degrade the function in office or the function of the position. >> if he is charged with misconduct it would be up to the board of supervisors to vote on whether or not he should be ousted from his position. >> here in san bruno, the mayor announced a $70 million settlement with the tgv. the money is restitution for the fatal gas explosion that happened in 2010 were eight people died in the 38 homes destroyed a few if from the mayor says in the

you are sauteing, you are braising. but if you know, hey let me heat up my pan with a little bit of oil in there until it's nice and hot before i put my chicken in there. gets what, you're sauteing. if you take out the fear factor you're far more successful. >> how does a rock star cook, like that? >> it's all about owning that. if you say chefs are the new rock stars, you don't have to have this hair to do it. but if chefs are the new rock stars, i want everyone to be a rock star in their own kitchen. own it, have fun with it, make the process of getting to dinner as fun as dinner. that's what i try to do in "cook like a rock star" and in "secrets of a restaurant chef" to get people to have more fun in the kitchen. >> these are not simple recipes are they? >> some are simple, some are more difficult. the whole idea is i try to put it in an approachable way and in language that it sounds like my voice. so it seems like we're cooking together. >> what's your favorite thing in here? >> it's like picking out my babies, i d

>> that is braising. >> then there's blanched carrots, blanched potatoes.eah. >> then ginger. this actually -- >> yes. >> so you have to use a spoon, you know, go like that. so you don't have to use a peeler. you guys don't waste a lot. >> look how gorgeous it is when it's served. >> beautiful. >> so the quail eggs. >> absolutely. >> and then if you don't have quail eggs, regular egg? >> everything goes well. so here's the finished product. >> oh, that looks beautiful. >> great. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you. i was shocked to find out how many couples don't sleep in the same bedroom. but in the sleep number store, we hear it all the time yeah, nine out of ten couples disagree on the firmness they want in a mattress. i sleep on the couch. with our bed, the sleep number setting represents the firmness that you like on your half of the mattress. don't mess with my side because i'm comfortable. i can adjust mine to my liking and she can do the same. go ahead and switch sides so you can feel what the other side feels like. you're on his side. how doe

>> that is braising. >> then there's blanched carrots, blanched potatoes.do this. >> you don't know me but am i doing it? >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> then ginger. this actually -- >> yes. >> so you have to use a spoon, you know, go like that. so you don't have to use a peeler. you guys don't waste a lot. >> look how gorgeous it is when it's served. >> beautiful. >> so the quail eggs. >> absolutely. >> and then if you don't have quail eggs, regular egg? >> everything goes well. so here's the finished product. >> oh, that looks beautiful. >> great. >> thank you for being here. >>> this is "today in the bay." >> 9:56. good morning, i'm marla tellez. fight at city hall. ross mirkarimi's suspension starts today. it's the first step towards removing him from office permanently. he pleaded guilty to false imprisonment. he acknowledged concernses over his anger issues but says he is not guilty of official misconduct. >> i believe that i am so very able to be the sheriff of san francisco, and that at this time i do not plan to resign. >> sheriff mirkarimi's actions fall b

this is tender braised pork for a pulled pork sandwich.is is authentic. all fun. >> nothing's authentic today. >> it's gourmet. >> mm. >> michael, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. >> much more coming up. >> hoda and kathie lee will be talking about sex and separating fact from fiction. >> just a regular day for them. >> first, your local news and weather. have a wonderful weekend, everybody. call her. ok. [ cellphone rings ] hey. you haven't left yet. no. i'm boarding now... what's up? um...would you mind doing it again? last time. [ engine turns over ] oooohhhh...sweet. [ male announcer ] the chevy cruze with the mychevrolet app. the remote control car is finally here. well now she's just, playing with us. oh. [ horn honks ] >>> good morning, everyone. 9:57 is the time friday, march 2, 2012. i'm barbara harrison. let's check the weather now. let's go right now to storm 4 meteorologist chuck bell with a look at the forecast. hi, chuck. >> good morning to you. good morning, everybody. enjoying the sunshine whi

this is tender braised pork for a pulled pork sandwich.thentic. all fun. >> nothing's authentic today. >> it's gourmet. >> mm. >> michael, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. >> much more coming up. >> hoda and kathie lee will be talking about sex and separating fact from fiction. >> just a regular day for them. >> first, your local news and weather. have a wonderful weekend, everybody. >>> good morning to you. 9:56. i'm marla tellez. a san francisco tech company becomes the latest to go public this morning. yelp says it's offering 7.1 million shares at 15 bucks apiece. that is higher than expected. analysts predicted the price would be between $12 and $14. the offer values the online site at roughly $900 million. the company's trading on the nasdaq under the ticker symbol yelp. that makes sense. supporters of gay marriage says an effort to have the prop 8 case reheard by the entire 9th circuit court is unnecessary. last month the three-judge panel ruled voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitution

. >> the first thing he's going to be making is a braised beef stew with orange and anise.nions. i'm going to do it in a hot pan, we're going to do it quick. you can stir it around, add a tiny bit more olive oil. the idea is you kick everything in one pot. there's only one pot to clean up at the end. which makes the whole cooking experience quicker and more enjoyable. you put in some flavoring, some rosemary and some thyme, with a little garlic. give it a stir and then you would normally let this cook down for a minute or two and then add your veggies, a beautiful winter vegetables, i've got parsnips and carrots and turnips and you get this delicious, rich sweetness. >> and the anise gives it a little something. >> the star anise gives it a little flavor, with orange of course, which is a winter fruitth and you stir it together, and a couple of minutes before, you put in your beef that you've browned back into the pot. >> they're large pieces, you're going to cook this down for a long time and they're going to fall apart. >> that's right, two or three hours. you throw in yo