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As a native New Yorker I have found chili to always include light red kidney beans. My recipe makes six servings and can be garnished with chopped scallions and shredded cheddar cheese.

What You Need:

• 2 pounds round steak
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 3 large garlic cloves, crushed and chopped
• 6 teaspoons dried basil
• 6 teaspoons dried parsley
• 6 tablespoons grated Italian cheese
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 4 cups tomato sauce

What You Do:

1. Remove bone from steak. Cut in 6 equal pieces. Place each piece between 2 sheets of waxed paper. Pound with a meat mallet to a thickness of about 1/4-inch.
2. Put oil and garlic in a food blender. Blend at high speed until garlic is liquefied.
3. Place steak pieces on a work surface. With a pastry brush, paint oil-garlic mixture on all the steaks.
4. Spread a teaspoon each of basil and parsley and a tablespoon of cheese on all the steaks. Season to taste.
5. Starting at the narrow end of the steak, roll jelly roll style. Tie with kitchen string on both ends and in the middle.
6. Place remaining oil-garlic mixture in a heated sauté pan. Add the steak rolls. Cook on all sides until browned.
7. Bring the sauce to a simmer in a 2-quart sauce pan. Add the brachioles and allow to simmer slowly for about an hour or more. (If making spaghetti sauce, you may add brachioles along with meatballs.)
8. Remove string with a kitchen scissors. Serve with the sauce over pasta.

Beverly's Best Chili
This recipe comes from a member of our momscooking community, Beverly, who donated this recipe as part of our ChiliUSA collection. She says, "I have been cooking all my life. It is one of my favorite pastimes. This particular dish has developed along the years. I have always loved mushrooms, so I added them. I experimented around until I got a recipe that was just right for everyone in the family including the sons who liked cheese or ketchup on everything. We really enjoy this dish and I hope you will too, especially on a cold snowy night up here in New York on Lake Ontario.

Brachiole (Italian Steak Rolls)
This recipe is brought to you by Joe Mallas who is a busy executive who travels a great deal. As a bachelor Joe has developed his own cooking style and preferences. In fact, this recipe is from his Italian uncle's cookbook. Joe's uncle decided to create a cookbook which includes all the recipes from both sides of his family. As Joe tells it , "My uncle (Italian ancestry) wrote and compiled all of his side of the family recipes and "my" side of the family (Russian ancestry) recipes into a "family" cookbook". Brachioles is a wonderfully tasting main entree, served with spaghetti or can be included in your tomato sauce like meatballs.

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