Recipe

Wild Rice Hotdish

Can you get any more Minnesota than wild rice hotdish? Pretty sure you can't. This easy comfort food casserole is a hat tip to the North Star State, and can be made "wilder" with venison and wild mushrooms.

Italian

Alpine Bread Soup

If you are looking for a delicious, thing to do with stale bread, you could do a whole lot worse than make a batch of bread soup: It's quick, easy and only uses a few ingredients.

Scandinavian

Yellow Pea Soup

Artsoppa, Swedish pea soup, is the most famous yellow pea soup recipe, although variations exist all over Scandinavia. This is a hearty winter meal.

Italian

Artichoke Soup with Meatballs

A chunky artichoke soup that relies on artichoke hearts and little meatballs, plus a simple, clear broth. A light winter soup.

Recipe

Wild Rice Salad

A fresh and bright wild rice salad recipe that mimics Crisp and Green's "wild child" salad. I use grouse, wild rice and dried wild berries.

British

Scottish Powsowdie

A recipe for the hearty Scottish stew powsowdie, traditionally made with a sheep or deer head, but which works well with other cuts of meat.

American Recipes

Cranberry Sausage Stuffing

A simple recipe for cranberry sausage stuffing with lots of variations depending on what you have on hand. Sausage, stale bread, nuts and dried berries are the stars.

American Recipes

Green Chile Chicken Soup

A recipe for Southwestern style green chile chicken soup, with roasted green Hatch chiles, white beans, greens and a rich broth.

American Recipes

Bison Stew

A rich, hearty bison stew made "three sisters" style with corn, beans and squash as a hat tip to Native American cooking. Any red meat works here.

Mushrooms

Wild Mushroom Stuffing

A simple wild mushroom stuffing to serve alongside holiday meals. This recipe has wild mushrooms, bacon, onions and a little egg to bind it.

Appetizers and Snacks

Mexican Lentil Soup

Sopa de lentejas, Mexican lentil soup, exists in various forms all over Mexico. My recipe is a hat tip to Nuevo Leon, where I ate this soup a lot.