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Wild Pheasant
“But over all … [wild fowl], the pheasant takes precedence; yet few are the mortals who know how to extract perfection from the bird.” – Brillat-Savarin We rarely think to buy “exotic” varieties of...
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Simple Pâté
We have an upcoming trip planned for London and Paris in April and we can’t wait until we depart. We’ve never been to Europe, and aside from Canada and Mexico we have never left the U.S. We are also...
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When Pigs Fly
Just across the river Seine on Paris’ Left Bank, we found a place filled with one restaurant after another, each with a carnival barker standing in the front door offering everything from free...
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Godmé and Gougères
In April, we spent a quiet morning in the Champagne vineyards just outside of Reims before venturing into the village of Verzenay where we were introduced to the Godmé matriarchs and sipped their...
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Chicken Involtini Part I: Apple & Bacon
Last week our good friend, Paul, sent us a link to a Chow recipe challenge: “Make chicken breast exciting!” The prize, if we won, was an cordless electric kettle; something I’ve been wanting, not...
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Chicken Involtini Part II: Collard greens, feta, pine nuts, & bacon
See also Chicken Involtini Part I: Apple & Bacon As we were making up our recipes for the involtini we found that a lot of them called for spinach. We wanted to make the most of the ingredients we...
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A bird in the hand…
Pheasants are not the sort of thing most people keep in their freezers and we wouldn’t have them either if it weren’t for Steve’s Dad’s love of hunting and his generosity. He’s given us more game meat...
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A Thanksgiving Dinner (without the cans)
When writing about T-day feasts, food writers like us have a quandary; do we make a separate feast weeks before and pretend it’s our Thanksgiving Day meal or do we have our meal on the fourth Thursday...
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Chicken Involtini Part III: Wild Mushroom & Whisky
Wow! Has it really been a year since our Chicken Involtini experiment? We did so well getting the first two recipes up, Chicken Involtini Part I (Apple & Bacon) & Part II (Collards, Feta &...
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Congee – Chicken Porridge
As the new year approached, we started searching for chicken porridge recipes. They were all similarly easy to put together, but they also all called for long grain white rice. We like white rice but...
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Oven Fried Chicken & Waffles
Ah, fried chicken and waffles! Folks have been serving them together for ages, but the combo has enjoyed a lengthy renaissance of sorts in recent years. Mostly likely Southern soul food-inspired,...
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