Important Points In Wine Cookery
Here are a few important notes to keep in mind for wine cookery: Wine is affected by unfavorable conditions, by changes of temperature. It languishes, it sometimes recovers. When it has reached its allotted span of life, it dies. Wine is best appreciated in cookery...
Chicken Stew – High Country Comfort Part 3
CHICKEN STEW Chicken soup is associated with being a bit under the weather for good reason. It’s nutritious, tasty, filling and somehow seems just the thing for when, as Grandpa Joe would have put it, “a body is ailing a bit.” Curiously, I don’t remember Grandma...
Grilled Duck Nachos – The Meateater Cookbook
Grilled Duck Nachos Ingredients (makes one 9x13-inch pan): Duck 2 pounds duck breasts 1 tablespoon finely ground coffee beans 2 teaspoons kosher salt 2 teaspoons packed brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon...
Brays Island BBQ Swordfish
A Brays Island Winter Classic: Grilled BBQ Swordfish with Pimento Cheese Grits Heat up your winter season with a dish that is sure to start a conversation at the dinner table. There is nothing quite like a swordfish freshly caught from Atlantic waters, and enjoying it...
Squirrel and Dumplings – High Country Comfort Part 2
SQUIRREL AND DUMPLINGS High Country Comfort Foods: Part 2 Although the grand comeback stories of the white-tailed deer and wild turkey have relegated the humble bushytail to a place well down the ladder when it comes to game species favored by hunters, for several...
Jugged Hare – Cooking Wild Game
Jugged Hare Ingredients (serves 2): 1 bottle (750 ml) red wine 1 1/2 cups beef stock 2 bay leaves 1 hare, skinned, gutted, washed and sectioned 3 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 yellow onion, peeled and diced 2 celery stalks, chopped 1 carrot, peeled and...
High Country Comfort Foods: Part 1
HIGH COUNTRY COMFORT FOODS: Part 1 “A body can get the miseries or suffer from mollygrubs most any time,” my Grandpa Joe used to say, “but somehow they seem to come most often in the dead of winter.” He had a bunch of what he considered surefire remedies for these...
Sauces – The Derrydale Game Cookbook
Sauces A perfect sauce is always a triumph. A bit of this, a sprinkle of that, a dash of imagination and the most prosaic food is "saucily served." The preparation of foods so that the most of it is made of natural flavors and textures, that's good cooking. the...
Chicken-Fried Rabbit
Chicken Fried Rabbit The eating of rabbits and hares has a venerable history in Europe. Greeks, Germans, Spaniards and Britons love rabbits and hares, as do Italians in certain regions. they also happen to be the building blocks of any true hunter's repertoire. At the...
Marinades – The Derrydale Game Cookbook
Marinades The word MARINATE comes from an old Spanish word meaning "to pickle," and it is the acid of the marinade that does the work, adding new flavor, softening tough fibers, increasing their natural sapidity through the action of penetration, lifting ordinary...