Starving off the Land

The pressure cooker experiments continue.  This is a mild, saucy concoction, and makes a comforting winter meal. Chicken and Cabbage with Sour Cream (in the pressure cooker) (Serves 2-3) 2 t. vegetable oil. 2 medium onions, sliced 1 T. paprika 1 small head green cabbage, shredded 3 c. stock (I used turkey; use what you [...]

We caught one trout yesterday, and one today.  They were small, so together they made one meal. Poached Trout with Gnocchi (Serves 2) For the fish: 3 T. butter 1 small onion, chopped 1 medium carrot, diced small 1 T. fresh sage, chopped 1 cup dry white wine 1 cup water 2 small whole trout, [...]

It started as a stew, and ended as more of a soup, so I’m creating a new food category: stoup.  I did it in the pressure cooker, and Kevin and I both loved it. Pressure Cooker Clam and Andouille Stoup (serves 4-6) ½ pound andouille sausage (or linguica, or chorizo), crumbled or diced 2 medium [...]

We usually eat our oysters plain, but our friend Amanda had a different idea.  She hosted a (spectacular) dinner, with seven courses paired with seven beers.  One of the courses was oysters, which we volunteered to bring.  She made a lime granita for accent, and served them with a slice of jalapeno.  Here’s how she [...]

Kevin found a pork roast in the freezer that had been there since we bought hour half pig a year and a half ago.  Thanks to the miracle of the modern freezer, it was still just fine.  It was an odd cut — a pork butt — and it had the skin and a thick [...]

It doesn’t usually happen, but we had a little bit of Cape Cod Beer porter go flat in the bottom of the growler.  Luckily, I found a most excellent way to use it up, thanks to a gingerbread recipe from Andrea Meyers’ blog. This is an adaptation of her recipe.  Gingerbread 2 c. all-purpose flour 2 [...]

My first pressure cooker experience! Pressure Cooker Lentil Soup (serves four as a main course) 3 strips bacon, chopped 1 large onion, chopped 4-5 celery stalks, chopped 6-8 cloves garlic, minced 3-4 carrots, chopped 1 T. dried oregano ½ cup red wine 5-6 cups chicken, turkey, or vegetable stock 1 ½ c. dried lentils salt, [...]

Because our roadkill wild turkey had some bruised meat, and was very lean, we decided to cut off the good parts and make sausage.  (We roasted the bones and made stock from the rest of it.)  We used about a pound of it to make our standard-issue Italian-style sausage, which we then turned in to [...]

We cut most of the meat off the carcass of our roadkill wild turkey, and ground it for sausage.  I roasted the carcass, and picked the scraps of meat off it for risotto (the rest of it is for stock). (Wild turkey photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.) Turkey Risotto with Cabbage and Ricotta (serves 2 [...]

This was good.  This was very good. For the ravioli: (Makes 25-30 ravioli) Pasta dough of your choosing, or wonton wrappers 1 T. olive oil 1 onion, chopped 8 oz. ricotta cheese 1 T. finely chopped parsley salt and pepper to taste 25-30 smoked oysters (we smoke ours by putting them on the grill over [...]