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[rps]

Paneer and lentil masala with spinach and a side of rice. Blue Apron recipe. Good stuff but needs an upgrade.

[Terrierman]

10 minutes ago, rps said:

Kraut is good. Kraut with caraway and pork fat is better!

 

And just the slightest hint of sweet.  Then it's the best.

[Johnsfolly]

So tonight we tried a new squirrel dish, Rosemary Parmesan Squirrel (recipe from MDC website). So we followed the recipe for the most part. Instead of water with chicken bouillon, we used the Folly farm chicken stock. I did cook the squirrel  for about 25 minutes instead of the 15 min suggested by the recipe. Also we didn't have any onion soup mix for the sauce. I mixed onion powder, dried onion pieces, our prepared jerk seasoning, and a couple of dashes of worchestershire sauce. The wild rice mix that we used was Lundberg Wild blend rice mix that we picked up at our local HyVee. This was a nice mix of different grains and had a nice toothsome bite. We also fried some of the Japanese pie pumpkin to serve with the squirrel and rice.

I will say that since there is not much of a braise on the squirrel, this is a dish that is best with young squirrels. A couple of pieces were very tasty, but tough.

[MOPanfisher]

Tonight I took Joe's advice.  Since I am in KC for a day to two I had little choice.  Ended up at Granite City for a "Big show" burger and a bowl.of french onion soup.  Soups was good but a little sweet for my taste, the burger was fabulous, almost more than I could eat.  Perfectly cooked to medium rare, with pulled pork and onion straws on top.  Now relaxing with a little training homework and a cold Moose Drool beer.  

[Johnsfolly]

Last night was intended to be leftover night. We had leftover wild rice from last night’s dinner. I dug around the fridge and found some deli ham, green onions, and some mushrooms. Decided on a fried rice bowl. I chopped up the ham, onion, and mushrooms and cooked on med-high to high heat with a little olive oil. Moved that mixture over in the skillet and did a quick scramble of two Folly farm fresh eggs with a bit of teriyaki sauce them mixed all the ingredient together. I added the rice and then seasoned with some garlic powder, sesame oil, little more teriyaki, and Asian five spice mix. Cooked until the rice was warmed through.

[BilletHead]

         The BilletHead's clean out or fridge like this once and awhile. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't .  

      Yesterday I marinated deer hears slices, Thick slices in the round. I quick char grilled them over briquettes and white oak wood. Tried to hit rare to medium rare. Ended up on the medium to medium rare side. While I was in charge of this the Mrs. was baking a sweet potato and to Nesse's  chagrin a can of peas was opened. The deer hart was the bomb! Sweet potato yowza and the peas were good roughage as in grazing. Have done heart this way before. Wish I would of this years ago. A nice use to the deer engine area,

  BilletHead

[Johnsfolly]

I haven't tried heart, but have thought about it several times (a couple of nudges from watching Meateater). If I (we) am (are) successful and have a deer heart or two, will likely try it this season . Maybe even with peas!

[Chief Grey Bear]

Haven't been able to get on for the last couple of days. 

Am I crazy or does my handle look different?

[Flysmallie]

2 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

 

Am I crazy or does my handle look different?

Paranoia will destroy ya. 

[Terrierman]

7 hours ago, BilletHead said:

         The BilletHead's clean out or fridge like this once and awhile. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't .  

      Yesterday I marinated deer hears slices, Thick slices in the round. I quick char grilled them over briquettes and white oak wood. Tried to hit rare to medium rare. Ended up on the medium to medium rare side. While I was in charge of this the Mrs. was baking a sweet potato and to Nesse's  chagrin a can of peas was opened. The deer hart was the bomb! Sweet potato yowza and the peas were good roughage as in grazing. Have done heart this way before. Wish I would of this years ago. A nice use to the deer engine area,

  BilletHead

Deer heart is way good.  Traditional second day of deer camp breakfast was bacon, deer heart, deer liver, fried eggs and fried potatoes.  People with good hearing swore they could hear arteries hardening.  You are right about rare to medium rare.