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Grilled Sweet Cherry & Apricot Kebabs
Appetizers Desserts

Grilled Sweet Cherry and Apricot Kebabs

Is there anything finer, more perfect than a ripe, ruby-red cherry? Sure, we all love succulent strawberries, plump blueberries and juicy raspberries, but nothing can rival a cherry, that bright red summery globe so beloved of birds and small children. Cherries have a long and tangled relationship with mankind (you could say it’s “complicated”). Cherries, both sweet and tart, seem to have originated in Asia Minor, somewhere in the region between the Black and Caspian Seas. While they appear rather …

Italian-style grilled steak
Meat Sauces & Condiments Tips and Techniques

Grilled Balsamic Glazed Steaks, Italian-Style

In Italy, grilled steak is epitomized by bistecca alla fiorentina. Try our twist on the classic recipe for an easy barbecue, featuring succulent steaks simply served with lemon, Italian-style. It all starts with a great steak. In the classic version of this Florentine dish, a very specific cut of meat known as bistecca nel filetto is traditionally used, but here in the United States, a good quality, thick bone-in steak is a reasonable substitute: a porterhouse, ribeye or t-bone is ideal. Once …

Cod a l’Anglaise with Ramp Butter
Sauces & Condiments Seafood Wild Foods

Crisp Cod a l’Anglaise with Ramp Butter

“À l’anglaise” is just a fancy way of saying “English-style” in French. It really has little to do with actual English cooking but refers to the way that the French imagine English cooking to be – in other words, plain and boring. The term à l’anglaise is used without much consistency. In general, it means food that is prepared very simply and presented with no sauce more complex than melted butter. Sometimes it means boiled; other times, it means turned …

Tall, flaky biscuits, fresh from the oven
Breads & Baked Goods Wild Foods

Buttermilk Ramp Biscuits

Nothing says “Country Breakfast” like fresh, hot buttermilk biscuits. There’s really nothing hard about making biscuits. With a little bit of practice, you can whip up a batch in 15 minutes or less (plus baking time, of course). The secret to making great, flaky biscuits lies in a few basic principles. Chill all of your ingredients before you start Cut in the fat with a pastry cutter Add just enough liquid to hold the dry ingredients together Use liquid with …

Spaghetti with Ramp Butter and Morel Mushrooms
Mushrooms Pasta Wild Foods

Spaghetti with Ramp Butter and Morel Mushrooms

Many of our favorite wild foods seem to appear all at once in the early spring, which can make it hard to appreciate each one adequately. A practical way to enjoy the season’s abundance is to combine several of them together into a single dish. Another is to preserve the fresh flavors of the spring wild harvest so they can be enjoyed all year round. This dish does both. The flavor and texture of the morel is well known, and these unique, …

Fresh Cherry Tarts
Desserts

Fresh Cherry Tartlets

It’s been said that “One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.” Cherries are a summer fruit, a small red globe that tastes of sun and warm days. Adults frequently forget how to appreciate the goodness of simple things like long summer afternoons and berries picked from a tree and put straight into a red-stained mouth. Perhaps cherries taste so good because they remind us of carefree summers and drives in the country, stopping at a roadside …

Pickled Ramp Bulbs
Appetizers Sauces & Condiments Wild Foods

Preserving the Wild Harvest: Quick Pickled Ramp (Wild Leek) Bulbs

Ramps (or wild leeks as they’re also known), are a wild-growing member of the onion family that have become one of America’s most popular “rediscovered” folk foods. Of course, ramps have never really been forgotten or gone out of style in their heartland, a broad swath of eastern North America stretching from southern Appalachia, west to the Great Lakes region and north into southern Canada. Spring is the season for ramps, beginning in mid-March in their southern range and ending …

Meat Soups & Stews

Fennel Braised Lamb Shanks with Buddha’s Hand Gremolata

Hearty and satisfying braised lamb shanks make a perfect winter dinner for two, but if you’re in the mood for an intimate gathering of friends, it’s easy to scale up this recipe with hardly any extra effort.  Here’s the secret: it’s made in a slow cooker (sometimes known as a crock pot). Once the initial prep is out of the way, everything goes into the cooker where it simmers quietly on its own for hours, filling the house with the …

Appetizers Potatoes

Crispy Truffled “Smashed” Potatoes

  This simple & delicious recipe for crispy roasted potatoes with truffle oil is guaranteed to be a “smash” hit. Kids and grownups alike will find them just as fun to make as they are to eat. With only 4 ingredients and a few easy steps, they’re perfect for a weeknight dinner, but dress them up with a dollop of sour cream and a pinch of chives (maybe even some caviar) and they’ll be the life of any party. A …

Roasted Delicata Squash with Dried Cherry-Pepita Stuffing closeup
Vegetables

Roasted Delicata Squash with Pepita-Dried Cherry Stuffing

Fall is a season of transitions. The weather is growing cooler, the days shorter, and while we haven’t yet put away the grill, cooking and entertaining are shifting away from the patio and into the cozy warmth of the kitchen. So say goodbye to summer (it’ll be back next year) and celebrate the change of seasons with these roasted rounds of delicata squash, filled with a sweet & savory stuffing. While you could use any small squash or pumpkin, we …