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Venison Pasities
Today I am going to share with you a relative newcomer in my weekly repertoire: Pasties! In case you are not familiar with them, pasties are a Cornish dish particularly known as miner food in our...
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East Meets West: Azerbaijani Hingal Made with Beef or Venison and The...
One thing I really like to do every once in a while is to take a trip around the world on my plate, which sometimes also means a trip down the proverbial memory lane. I am, after all, from the culture...
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Beef or Venison Bolognese Sauce and the Garlic Vinaigrette
To me, few things marry more perfectly than spaghetti Bolognese and green salad with the homemade vinaigrette. That’s why I almost always serve them together. I also like to add some firm, green...
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Beef or Venison Jerky
Between the two of us, Jacob and I bagged two deer this year, and for the first time in my life I got into making jerky. It’s not that I ever had a shortage of venison with Jacob being such an...
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Chicken-Fried Venison with Skillet-Roasted Potatoes
This dish here is a cross between a recipe I found in The L.L.Bean Game and Fish Cookbook, and something my mother has been cooking forever that she called langeti. Langeti are essentially slices of...
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Russian Pirozhki (and the American Bananas Foster)
What have we here? These are Russian pirozhki - individual pies or meat pockets, as I sometimes see them called. They can be either served as a hearty appetizer, or alongside a lighter, thinner soup...
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We Hae Meat and We Can Eat: Venison Pastrami
Some hae meat and cannae eat Some would eat that want it But we hae meat and we can eat Sae let the Lord be thankit. -Robert Burns Let me present you the with the venison pastrami I made using a recipe...
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Puff Pastry Venison Pasties
Now that you know how to make puff pastry, let’s make puff pastry pasties! This will give us three nice big pasties. They are so filling on the account of consisting 50% of butter that you don’t need...
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Venison Pasty Pie
And, in case you didn’t have enough pasties yet (you didn’t, did you?), here’s how to make your pasty dough and pasty filling into a pie instead, if, for instance, you are pressed for time. My regular...
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Beef or Venison Stroganoff with Blue Cheese
What I am about to present to you came as a twist on the traditional (whatever that means) beef stroganoff. Personally, I found this to be irresistibly delicious, and if you like tangy creaminess,...
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Home-Cured Corned Beef or Venison
Corned beef is a wonderful thing to make at home, in my opinion. It makes nice sandwich meat and a mean boiled dinner. I’ve learned how to make corned beef from Charcuterie – a wonderful book on home...
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Wild Ramp Pesto
Now ramps are a type of a wild onion. This time a year, they can be either harvested in the wild in the woods in our part of the country (I am not sure how extensive the range is) or found at farmer’s...
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Chicken-Ramp Salad
Because you really needed me to show you how to make chicken salad: Some cooked chicken (I only used dark meat in this case)… Some chopped celery… Throw in some ramps… You can always add some walnut...
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East Meets West: Wild Wisconsin Green Borscht
There are probably as many variations of this classic as there are of the regular “beet” borscht. Although I think most people in this country might not even be aware such a thing exists. Green borscht...
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How I Hot-Smoked Trout
I am new to this. My only other experiment with smoking was venison pastrami. This time I smoked trout. Not the trout we caught but farm-raised trout that ended up in my fridge. While farm-raised fish,...
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The Power and the Glory of Eating Local: Grilled Fresh-Caught Trout
I am a simple woman with simple tastes. I don’t need (very much) jewelry. I most definitely don’t need nice clothes. I use zero beauty products and don’t need to be surrounded by beautiful things to be...
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Smoked Trout and Dill Spread
Here’s a simple and delicious show-stopper from my birthday party this past week: cream cheese (I used homemade neuchatel). I didn’t soften the cheese ahead of time. sour cream (I think I used about 6...
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Delicious Beef or Venison Tamale Pie
This is a wonderful recipe I got from the nutrition curriculum that our friend Jane Siemon teaches at the Youth Initiative High School here in Viroqua. I have embellished this recipe a little bit,...
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Quick Pepper and Onion Beef or Venison Fajitas
This time of year, when the garden is bursting with produce (whether it’s been properly weeded throughout the summer or not), I always look for dishes that would help me maximize the use of its fruits....
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Pan-Fried Fresh Mississippi Carp
My heart used to beat faster upon receiving a phone call from my love interest. These days, it beats faster upon receiving a phone call from my fishmonger. That’s right – after over seven years in...
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