Veal Milanese is one of those recipes that you should be able to find on a site called The Italian Chef, but inexplicably it has been absent here up until now. I decided to rectify this, but have been struggling with a write-up to go along with the recipe. Everything I came up with about cutlets being a staple of Italian cooking and the most well known preparation being this classic from Milan just seemed dry and boring. So I thought I would just share a cutlet story from one of my Italy trips.
Italian Recipes
For years, I thought Sicilian Pesto was some weird, made-up American sun-dried-tomato abomination. It wasn't until my first trip to Sicily that I discovered that pesto alla Siciliano was actually Italian--and more to the point, that there was a reason to eat it, I did some research, diving into old Sicilian cookbooks, and I found a handful of recipes, all using the tender leaves at the heart of celery as a key ingredient.
