What’s for Dinner: Wild Boar Borscht
Perfect for a chilly autumn evening, this stew from "American Game Cooking" calls for wild boar but you could easily substitute stew meat from buffalo, venison, elk, etc. There are too many ingredients to list, but the beets, fennel seed,...
What’s for Dinner: Beet Green Soup
Beet greens are tasty and nutritious but quite fragile, so you should try to cook them within a day or two of purchasing your bunched beets. This recipe is a rustic one from "Molto Italiano" by Mario Batali. Warning -...
What’s for Dinner: Goat Loin Chops Pan-Roasted in White Wine
Looking for something quick and tasty, I based this on a recipe for lamb chops, Marches style, from Marcella Hazan's seminal cookbook "Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking". Brown a very thinly-sliced onion with pancetta and olive oil (or bacon grease...
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What’s for Dinner: Saucisse de Sanglier (Wild Boar Sausage) and Peppers
Here's a dinner that is on the table in 15 minutes when you come home famished from the gym. Heat up a skillet, dice a couple sweet red peppers and one yellow onion, and brown them together with a bit...
What’s for Dinner: Madras Coconut Cream Beef Curry
A simple yet very tasty recipe from "Good Meat" by Deborah Krasner. Though she calls for stew beef, I had a big grassfed chuck roast on hand so I cut it up into cubes for this dish. Brown a chopped...
What’s for Dinner: Wagyu Burgers and Chateau Latour
You'd think we were living the high life with this meal. Using the awesomeness that is Gilt Taste, we feasted on Flannery Beef wagyu custom blend burgers - equal parts chuck, cross rib, flatiron and shortloin tail - with all...
What’s for Dinner: Garlic-rubbed Buffalo Tri-tip
Easiest. Recipe. Ever. Chop a whole head of garlic, mash it in a mortar and pestle with a lot of kosher salt to form a thick paste and then rub it all over a tri-tip roast (beef or buffalo). Wrap...
What’s for Dinner: Grilled Lamb Skewers with Yogurt-mint Dipping Sauce
This recipe comes straight from the excellent Mark's Daily Apple site (written by Mark Sisson of Primal Blueprint fame). It is easy and delicious - before you go to work in the morning, marinate cubed lamb for 8 hours in...
What’s for Dinner: Roasted Rabbit with White Wine and Olives
Another batch of game meat from D'Artagnan, and a recipe from the excellent cookbook and educational tome, "Good Meat" by Deborah Krasner. She sums up the homey nature of this dish in her description: "An example of Italian home cooking...
What’s for Dinner: Grilled Wild Boar Tenderloin
Another game meat classic from my favorite source, D'Artagnan. Marinated simply in olive oil and herbs, grilled in a very hot skillet for 2 minutes per side, and then finished for 15 minutes in a 400 degree oven. Pair it...
What’s for Dinner: Wild Boar with Olives (Cinghiale alle Olive)
I love wild boar - tenderloin, stew meat, you name it (and thankfully they have always had a good marketer and haven't been referred to as "feral swine"). It is normally hard to find, but D'Artagnan is a great source...
