Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Spanish Quail with Paprika and Onions
A Spanish recipe for quail stewed with paprika and onions. You then strain off the liquid and serve that with pasta. it's a great date night dish.
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
A Spanish recipe for quail stewed with paprika and onions. You then strain off the liquid and serve that with pasta. it's a great date night dish.
Charcuterie
Cumberland sausage is a classic English fresh sausage flavored simply with mace, sage and pepper. Normally pork, you can use other meats, too.
Recipe
Making lingonberry sauce is easy: It's just lingonberries and sugar - and time. Sugared lingonberries are a versatile Scandinavian condiment.
Essays and Stories
If you haven't heard, I have moved from California to Minnesota, with all that entails.
Mexican
A recipe for huitlacoche quesadillas. Huitlacoche, "corn smut," is a mushroom that grows on corn, and is amazing cooked with chile and onion on a tortilla.
Mushrooms
How to identify, harvest and cook the birch bolete, Leccinum scabrum. Birch boletes are edible, but best dried first.
Featured
How to make chipotles at home. You need ripe jalapenos, a smoker, and time. They're easy to make, and store well.
Mexican
A mahi mahi ceviche recipe inspired by ceviches I've eaten in Baja California. Dorado ceviche is common there, and often uses fruit like mango or pineapple.
Mushrooms
A recipe for a summery chanterelle sauce that works well with fish, poultry, pasta or bread. Chanterelles, cream, corn and roasted garlic.
Fish
How to cook burbot, also called eelpout, ling, lawyer fish and mariah. Burbot are a freshwater cod, and are wonderful table fare.
Fish
A light, summery lobster salad recipe that doesn't use mayo. This is a Mediterranean style salad with cucumber, tomato and sweet peppers.
Fish
Can you eat spider crabs? Absolutely. Spider crabs are totally edible, and they taste like other crabs. Here's how to prepare and cook them.