This is the perfect quick appetizer for entertaining. It’s ready in less than 30 minutes and uses my favorite Muir Glen canned tomatoes. What I love about these tomatoes is that they are organic, and the farmers that grow them always use sun-kissed, vine-ripened tomatoes to create the rich tomato flavor for your recipes. These are…
What to do with a mess of Scaled quail and some rabbits? That was the question after our last winter quail hunt to New Mexico. A dinner party plan was being hatched. We’ll need some starters for the event was part of the discussion, so my wheels were turning and I remembered a dining epiphany…
Thad is back with another delicious wild game recipe! ...It is the time of year where you can combine a fresh harvest from the field with fresh harvest from the garden for a wonderful dinner. Mourning doves, cucumbers, tomatoes, onion and basil are all at their peak in my part of the country -- Minnesota.…
I have always been a bit of a Francophile, especially when it comes to food. The French just have a way of making the kind of food you want to bathe in because it feeds the spirit not to mention the taste buds. Rillettes are an example of just that, they are a way to…
The title of this post may seem simple, but there is a great difference between making a fruit platter and making a fruit platter. There is a bowl of strawberries and then there is a series of colors and layers and textures and shapes that provoke conversation and a gathering of people around it chattering and…
Toward the end of the season, when you have had your fill of garden squash, pick the blossoms that form on the vines before they bear fruit. They are less likely to mature into full fruit anyway as the weather gets colder, and the flowers themselves have a delicate squash flavor, so they are wonderful…
I recently had a biiiig party and the first thing I served was buttered radishes. I was actually sort of surprised by how much people loved them, I thought it was just a quirky thing that I liked a lot and wanted to add a whimsical touch to the dinner. But the truth is that…
It was a big quince harvest at Tulipwood this year. We make a lot of quince jelly every year, but I always long to dream up new and creative ideas for how to use all of these quinces. There have been years we have been so overwhelmed that we've sold them to the local health…
September marks the beginning of hunting season, and with it some of my favorite protein in the sky: dove. Most people haven't tried dove before either because they don't know any hunters or because they think they don't like the taste of wild game. But we want to change that! Below are 5 tasty dove…